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Show TRAINED ANIMALS. Wonderful Feats of the Trained Seals in Ilingling's Shows. Something very unusuil In the line of trained animal dlspli)s will be offered of-fered the Salt Lake public when Ulng-llng Ulng-llng Diothcrs' big clccua exhibits here, August 6th Highly trained anlmils aro nlways interesting but when so-lalU-d dumb luutes ire taught to exercise ex-ercise seeming human Intelligence Ihls Inteiest is accentuated a hundredfold. The training of animals Is not a new-profession new-profession The Intelligence of the elephant ele-phant was recognized centutlesngo and the war elephants of ancient Persia are credited with having nt times exhibited ex-hibited an intelligence In buttle greater great-er than their masters Trained lions nnd tigers were not unknown to the nnclents, nnd there Is soinew here a record of remnikable feats being performed per-formed nt the barbaric court of a Central Cen-tral African potentate by a herd of giraffes It is doubtful, however, whether the trainers nf the eaily centuries cen-turies had nn) thing like the success with the brute creation that has been achieved by modern animal men. The Juggling sen! act with Hlngllng llroth-era llroth-era circus, Judging fiom what has been said of It in other cities would certainly cer-tainly have created astonishment nnd wonder in Dab) Ion or the more reient Circus Mnxlmus These seals are n Paris importation although their won-derfull) won-derfull) successful tiainer, Capt Webb 1, nn Vmerlnun Cipt We lib is credited cred-ited with being the oifglnator of the seal net and for many vears his re-maskable re-maskable troupe of nnlmal actors has been one of the leading features of the Huropenn circuses These seuls are declared to perform practically every Juggling trick that nny human artist can ncccmpllrh balancing nnd catching catch-ing hatons, tossing bills In the air and skillfull) catching them, handling fire-arms, fire-arms, and performing many similar feats, besides playing upon muslrn' instruments in-struments and singing In a style peculiar pe-culiar to themelves Prof Wood's dog nnd pon) circus Is nlso one of Hie novelties nov-elties of this department of the show There aro numerous other trained animal ani-mal features, among which Herr Sou-dor's Sou-dor's herd of comedy elephants from llertln are spoken of In terms of special spe-cial eonunendntlon There are now 3ft elephants In Hlngllng Ilmtlicrs' herd nnd they are all cirefully trained lo contribute to tho performance Tho trained animal show is given In con-neetlon con-neetlon with a great triple-ring circus and a revival of the old Koman hippodrome hip-podrome on nn elaborate senle of completeness com-pleteness The parade that Inaugurates ilrcus dns Is de-icrlbcd as the most resplendent spectnele of modern times. |