Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — LOOK FOR IT. [ARTICLE]

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The Great Van Amburgh Show. This monster institution, the most extensive combined circus and menagerie now traveling in this country, will exhibit in Rensselaer on Tuesday next, August 81st. Two performances will be given, tho first at 2 p. m., and the second at 8 p. m., of each day. The doors will open one hour before tie performance commences. As a inenagorie, it contains more and rarer animals than any like institution. Large and attractive as it always has been, the show now is more extensive than ever heretofore. The Great Behemoth of Holy Writ, the wonderful living nondescript, from the Nile, and the largest elephant ever imported into America, are nmoug the ouriosities of the menagerie; in addition to which will be found over five hundred other wild beasts, birds, and reptiles, which have been captured in tho jungles of the Eastern world, m iny of which will be exhibited for the first time ibis season bv the Great Van Amburgli Golden Menagerie and Frost’s Roman Circus. Jn the circus department of this gigantic institution will bo seen tho most extensive troupe of equestrians, gymnasts, acrobats and athletes that has ever entered the magic ring of a* circus at one time. The manager of this great consolidated show inis declared in all of bis advertisements that this show is the “crowning glory of his 85 years of menngerial experience.’’ That the groat show will be liberally patronized, is placed beyond a doubt. It is immense in all its departments.* Remember tho show will exhibit here next Tuesday.