Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1912 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. Ringling’s Circus in Chicago. The biggest circus engagement Chicago has ever known is that now being played at the Coliseum by Ringling Brothers biggest arenio show with the added siiectacle of Joan of Arc. Every performance has drawn the largest crowds that the circus luys ever exhibited to in the western metropolis, and the veredict of press and public alike is | that this is Hie costliest and most remarkable circus entertainment ever given in America. The spectacle precedes the regular ring performed,e and takes place on a manmoth stage, with 1200 characters, a ballot of 300 dancers, operatic chorus oif 400 voices, and 500 horses. No production in a decade in any theatre or out-door forum has been staged with such splendor, glorious color sdhemea and extravagance of exixmditune as this one. The long and ever varying arenic bill in. the three rings, three stages, on the hippodrome track and network of aerial rigging injuries every novelty that the Ringling Brothers’ agents in all parts of the world could secure. Of the 375 performers the majority are foreigners and the pick of the permanent circuses of the large cities of Europe The equeßtrain acts are esjiecially notable, and besides t/he foreign riders is every well known American bareback performer. Throughout the performance fifty of the funniest clowns in the world keep up a continual battle of merriment. The Ringling Brothers are also exhibiting a 108-cage zoo with the finest specimens of animals from every clime. Among the new features are Big Fritz the taillest giraffe ever captured, a large colony of animal babie-’. It would be well "for out-of-town visitors to order their seats in advance and thus secure good locations. All mail orders accompanied by currency or money orders, are promptly attended to. The engagement will be short. There are two performances daily at 2:15 and 8:15 p. m., the doors opening an hour earlier.