Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1893 — NOAH MAY ALSO COME. [ARTICLE]

NOAH MAY ALSO COME.

Large Consignments of Kgyptlans. Turks. A rubs and Wild Animals Arrive in New York. Aboard the steamship Guild Hall, which arrived at Nqw York, Tuesday, from Alexandria, were 175 Egyptian men and women destiaed for tlio World’s Fair. The vessel rested at anchor near BcdlooV island, and the Egyptians, dressed in their native costumes, were on deck in force. The dancing girls, dressed in short skirt*and decorated from head to foot with cheup finery, gave exhibitions of theii agility on tho quarter-deck. A number of Arabs and Turks are included in the party and there are wrestlers, gladiators and fencers by the score. The* .Egyptian; brought along seven camels, fLve cages ol monkeys, twenty donkeys and a lot a! Arab horses. Tho Bovic was a floating menagerie when she came Into port. Shi had aboard a large collection of wild an i mals for the World's Fair. Thelotlnclu (led two elephants, seventeen lions, fiv tigers, five leopards, twelve bears, twelv hyenas aud a lot of wolves. There wer also horses, zebras, sfxtecn cages of mon keys, twenty-nine cages of parrots, fiv. cages of storks, and ponies, goats, pigs sheep and dog- •” , *-hout number.