Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1872 — P. T. Barnum’s Great Show. [ARTICLE]

P. T. Barnum’s Great Show.

With its Six Separate Colossal Tents, its one thousand men and horses, five hundred animals, anil one hundred thousand curiosities, a hundred first-class articles, its group of monster sea lions, kept iji massive water tanks, brought in wliale ships all tlfe way from the North Pacific, at acostof ss<),ooQ;4ts living Giraffes and CameleopArds, wild Fiji Cannibals, from the island of Na Vit Laorn; the horse-riding goat Alexis, which performs on a tast-ruiuiiiig horse ah the feats of the most skillful equestrian the magnificent museum collection, the famous Admiral Dot, Sleeping Beauty, and the Dying Zouave; Perizitian giants. Egyptian mummies, and Liliputian dwarfs. Three trains of forty cars each—in fact, with tlie largest and most attractive combination of startling wonders ever known, will exhibit at Lafayette .On Friday, October 18th, 4872. Glving th ree en tertai n memg--trio rtling, afternoon and evening „ Special trains at reduced fareS.wilr rim to convey passengers Wh6 y?ish to visit this mammoth exhibition. Such is the magnitude and variety of this vast aggregation that it has been compared to a great traveling World,’*’ Fair. The copartnership heretofore exist-, ini' between Spitler & Hengisbach has tmsday been dissolved by ; mutual consent'. All partiesowing said firm will settle with the undersigned. Oct. loth, 1872, Thus- J- Spitler. SSy-Mr. Wm. Kassner warrants all work done in his boot and shoe shop, ami will mend free of charge any j of Ids work that rips.'