Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — THE WALLAGE SHOW. [ARTICLE]

THE WALLAGE SHOW.

How Matters are Cared so at Win t ?? Quarters. .The VV allace show is now in win fief quarters at the Wal’ac farm 'ft<a > r Peru The tour last year em i’rrced nearly every state in the Union and tne season was a p.ofit b e one The an mals to understand their home coming.- Tfo e large 1 ions and tigers lay peaceful y in ’heir house, while the numerous olthers seem to wink and say ‘what’s, the matter with this?’ The cub catamounts which were obtained in California play all over the buildi g like d gs and have no fear of the men, and it is a frequent occur* rence to see men and animals in a mixed ud frelie on the floor, aD screaming and yelling as though it were the gi§ate.,t sport ever in* I Iged in., The huge elephants are happy and contented in their •varm quarters, while the camels, dramedaries nndg- tieanimals are turned out fn *he fleld w en pleas* ant. Hundreds of horses and po* ni s are glazing in the fields. Mr. Wallace’s winter quarters m’o beyond doubt the finest in the Unite I States. The farm former* ly belonged to the noted chief, Ga* Uriel Godfrey, and consisted of 210 cres, each of which is as level as the floor of a house. The farm is Io ated in the forks of the Wabash an Mississinewa rjveis, two afid a half miles east of Peru. lheland is part of the grant to the M ami Lnd’ans from the government, and is the most valuable in the county. Mr. Wa lace and assistants are already arranging the route and at* tractions for next season, when the »iicus is to i'€ still enlarged.