Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — FIRST OF THE SEASON. [ARTICLE]

FIRST OF THE SEASON.

Vnn Amburgh & Co’s Great Golden Menagerie has been consolidated with Frost’s Roman Circus and Coloseum, for the season os 1880, and wifi pitch its thirteen tents jfin liensß< l««r next Tuesday Aug. 81st. This is tho GOth consecutive year of the Von Amburgh Menagerie -the oldest show Organization in the world-which has always been recognNe as the leading exhibition of wild animals, both in this jcoud ry and in Europe. As years have gone by the Van Amburgh show has striven to keep pace with the times, and to-day it boasts of a greater variety of beasts, birdsand reptiles tbsn any other show an the continent The present consolidation with Mr. Hyatt Frost’s Roman Circus end Colosseum, places the combination in the very foreground cf all institutions of a like character. A perusal of the advertisement in this week’s paper will couvince the most skeptical of the real merits cf this gigantic aggregation. The monster show, as now organized,, gives constant employment to over 250 laborers, and has a troupe of nearly 100 ladv and gentleman performers; a. mong the latter no less than twelve equestrians, and of the latter the only female hurdle rider in the world. It requires no prophet's ken to see that we aro .to have a superb show, and we predict crowded tents ■at each performance. Read the advertisement in this week’s paper.