Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1915 — London’s Wonder Street. [ARTICLE]

London’s Wonder Street.

Fleet street was formerly the wonder place of London, where all that was novel, bizarre and marvelous was exhibited by enterprising showmen. Ben Jonson alludes to “a new notion of the. city of Nineveh, with Jonah and the whale, at Fleet bridge,” and at the Eagle and Child was exhibited s collection of freaks and monstrosities that set the whole town agape. In 1710, too, was advertised as on exhibition at Fleet bridge, “two strange, wonderful and remarkable monstrous creatures, an old she dromedary, seven feet high and ten feet long, lately arrived from Tartjfiy with bet young one, being tbe greatest wonder, rarity and novelty ever seen in the three kingdoms.” .