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Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1939, Page 6

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WONDERS OF FIVE CONTINENTS. ■ SYDNEY, April, 11. \ The most cosmopolitan community in Australia, was revealed when Sideshow Town' opened at the Royal Show. Tney were heralded, by a inedley of noise—tom-toms, bagpipes, banjos, saxophones, mouth-organs—and, irresistible of all, the tongue of' the spruiker. " Sydney was invited to see ’the' wonders of five., continents, to join in tlie astonishment, of ,crowds from "Borneo to Blackpool. ,j ■ ~ j,M.r; ,)r|hnr’ ~ Gi;eeijhalghj r of Greenhaigli .pyqSentefl:—' - The >yqi^d’s,,’fattpt : ia.dy, i Alexican Rose, who weighs -pi.-stone, and doesn’t worry about it; The Pinhead Chinaman (l£ stone, 3ft), who has so intrigued Believe-it-or-not Ripley that he has bought his contract to show him at the New York World’s Fair; \ Miss Pat Gamble, Chicago speedway rider; Miss Jean Dare, from Blackpool; And Miss Mov Wong, who was a motor cycle despatch rider in the army of Chiang-Shi-sheki They, perform stunts on the perpendicular wall of the “Pit of Death.” Several of their acts have never been attempted before.-,by women. Hindu fakirs, who perforin the Rope Trick as done in India. This ..is-: the first .-.performancq of This trick in Australia. A hair-raising exhibition (of . works,, which includes all tliq. murderers, looking very niuch. > ; ' GOING WHIT® v ::m \ rr \ ! Tain Tam, who is hilled by Mr C. J. Delaney as “The Leopard Man,” is”an Ethiopian, but the skin of his body and face are mottled with white He is now 63, and doctors believe that if lie lives another 30 years he will become, completely white. ' C He belonged to .one of the most dreaded of African tribes. . ; Six years ago Portuguese', mission-’' aries took him to a mission ,ori tHe African coast, where he studied the Bible- and became very religious. ” , . He recites large sections ojf the Bible | in Bantu. , ... The luarriago last,year qf;.fhe world’s tallest man, an Irish guardsnpm, of Bft Bin., to Canadian . midget, Miss Alma. James, of ,Winnipeg (Canada), who hJ only 3'feet, was one of the strangest* unions in history.