Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1883 — Sells Brothers Show. [ARTICLE]

Sells Brothers Show.

The circus was the all-absorbing topic of conversation yesterday, and the streets were orowded all day by people ftrom the country and neighboring towns, who had come to the city to see the big show. The street parade in the morning was an excellent display, the wagons and chariots being artistically painted and the animals in open cages; a band of Indians and a calliope, and a score of elephants and oamels adding to the general interest. The afternoon performance crowded the tent, all the seats being filled. The display of animals was excellent, the principal attractions being' an immense herd of elephants, two immense hippopotami, a two-horned rhinoceros, a number of sea lions, and the usual complement of tigers, hyenas, and lions. The animals were particularly clean and well kept. The ring performance was one of the best ever given in, this city. Last night the jam was. simply awful, and before 8 o’clock the management was obliged to clpsethe doors, fully 1,500 people being turned away. To the credit of Sells Brothers it can be said that their show proved so attractive and popular that they had to turn people away in Indianapolis. They have a good show, and richly deserved the patronage , they received. — “Indianapolis Journal, May 4.”

The North American Review for August opens with a very spirited discussion of the subject of “Moral Instruction in the Public Schools,” by tho Rev. Dr. R. Heber Newton, who offers a practical scheme for conveying ethical instruction without reference to religious tenets, and the Rev. Dr. Francis L. Patton, who maintains that the Bible must be made the basis of all moral teaching. Henry D. Lloyd exposes the tricks and frauds of speculation in grain, which operate to make bread dear, and maintains that they should be repressed by law, as being flagrantly in opposition to public policy. “Women in Politics,” by ex-Surgoon-General Wm. A. Hammond, is a causfeJ ic discussion of certain facts of QggjM ous organization which in bis opitfrov render the female sex unfitted for participation in public affairs. Hon. Francis A. Walker reviews “Henry George’s Social Fallacies”, criticizing in particular his doctrines regarding land-tenure and rent. The evils resulting from “Crude Methods of Legislation,” both- national and State, are pointed out by. Simon Sterne, who advocates the adoption of certain rules of legislative procedure which, in English practice, have been found to serve as & effectual barrier, both against lobbying and against the mischiefs of ill-con-sidered law-making. Charles F. Wingate writes of “The Unsanitary Homes of the Rich,” and there is a joint discussion ,of “Science and Prayer," by President Galusha Anderson and Thaddeus B. Wakeman. Published at 30 Lafayette Place, New York, and for sale by booksellers generally.

i m m w m m . 1 *" 1 1 11 The rainfall during the shower Monday evening was something immense. Three or four inches of water fell in about an hour’s time. The last of the ser^s.— The ladies of the M. E. church will give what is understood to be the last of their series of festivals, at the usual place, up stairs in Makeever’s new block, to-morrcw (Friday) evening. A general invitation is extended. ’ Bad Cut.—Mr. C., C. Sigler’s little son cut a bad gash in his heel yesterday, while playing in the Court House yard, probably by stepping upon a, piece of glass,' or something of a like nature. An artery was’severed, and the bleeding, until arrested bv the prompt treatment of Dr.; feartsetl, was very profuse; - * -