Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — The Coming Great Show. [ARTICLE]

The Coming Great Show.

With what impatience* reader, be you professor or printer, banker or balrer, tutor or tailor, doctor pr drayman, merchant or miller, farmer or fieedman, dentist or devil—printer’s devil we meau—benedict or bachelor, old maid or ipatron, old or young, short or tall, or any body at all* must you now be wniting for tlie coming to Rensselaer,' on Saturday,' Qot $, pf Hilliard & Demott’s great show. .On tiiat memorable day let "loathed melancholy” come and be provked to laugh, let the learned come and learn, the grave not undervalue, and the ’wise and good not forbear commending it. We gwene uot a Jot from the truth, asserting it ti|a cujmjqation of all that earns!ty could wish, ur fanoy picture; all tiiat the most critical could as k or sanguine anticipate; what morality indorses and religion allows; what tlie scholar can oon-> aider with advkutag, and the unlearned study with great profit; wbut the Children adore aud adults applaud; wbat brightens the eye of age aud adds lustre to the ingenious oountpnauceof youth; what dispels the shadow of sadness and adds glee to the laugh of gladness; what effaces the crow’s-foot of care and for a time makes all forget the stovn realities of life and live at least a few bright hours in fancy’s realm Come aud see the wonders of zoology, the huge eleph&uts, the towering camels, the ferocious tigers, the lordly libus, the mammoth aviary, the daring bareback riders, the fearleoe gymnasts of mid air, the lithe leapers the funny fools, und innumerable other woudere, the most entertaining and delighting ever presented under cauvuss.