Barnum's Nhow.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5670, 17 January 1890, Page 4

Barnum's Nhow.

SpaAßiKQ.of B«rnum, his name i* {on everyone's lips at the present time, saw* ' London ooyrespondent. He promised! to bwng the biggest show on earth to Londbn, and^hsre is no mistake that he has kppt Xi? word. The great building of Olyitfpia many attractions. At the evening night 16,000 people paid for ,r mission. The show has one fault—there ' istbo much of it. Imagine an enormous building of'glass and iron with a tremendous floot'sarface, oh which three circus . Tr&^s^ : double" the ordinary size, are arranged, and imagine threo sensational r'^erfb'ymancesj one in each ring, going! on - at; the same* time, in addition to two large stages,.on which a performance of sqnie :_ ..kind ia being.,gone through. In all jive . -Septette, sftows exhibiting at the same tini6,(and the unfortunate spectator has only piie pair of eyes with which to enjoy the scene. It is simply bewildering. No .sooner do you fix your attention on the clever antics of the trained ponies than - -yott-hear shouts of applauso at the rapid ' flight of a lady rider through hoops of fire, and at the same time the comic elephant „ in.'the third icing is drawing all attention to his clowning acts. Then you feel mad, and wish you were somewhere else, «tdc shows, with their dwarfs, giants, fatladies, living skeletons, legless men and tiitooed women are seen before the show proper opens, and a marvellous show it is. For two shillings you enter at 6 o'clock, and stay till 8, enjoying the hundreds of ni irvels of the side shows and exhibition of strange wild beasts. Then the circus opens at 8 sharp, closing at 10. Then the great spectacle of the Fall of Rome commences, which lasts till 11.30. This is the grandest scenic effect ever seen in London, and when it is mentioned that over 1000 persons are introduced in costume into the scene, it will be imagined that the effect is a grand one. Thus from 6 till 11.80 you are busy with a most varied and attractive show a good long evening's amusement for two shillings. Considering the nobodies who are sometimes ennobled by the monarchies of Europe, it is perhaps a dubious honour which the Queen of Spain has just conferred on Senor Santa Annais, the founder and editor of the Correspondencia d'Espana, who has been created a Marquis. He is, we believe, the first journalist in any country who has been raised to the peerage ; and the old nobility of the Azul Sangre resent his introduction among them. The new Minister entered Madrid 40 years ago with only two dollars in his pocket; and he is now a wealthy man. Better than all, he is a distinguished philanthropist. ■. ' Certainly the beat medicine known is Sander and Sous' Eucalypti 1-xtract. Test its eminently power -'■'■ fnleffects in coughs, cods, influenza ; the relief is .nstantaneous. In serious cases, and accidents of al - ■ kinds, ba they wounds, burns, scaldinga, brul-es, sprains, it is the' safest remedy —no swelling —n'< in flammation.' Like surprising effects produced in croup," diphtheria, bronchitis, infi mmation of the lungs, ewellings, etc; diarrhooa, dysentry, diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In uee at hospital* and medical ciinica all over tne globo; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy; crowned with meda and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam Trust in this approved at tide, oi.d reject all other