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Show A BARNUM TRICK. From the Chicago Rccord-IIcrald. Touching the matter of exits, there is nn old story of one of P. T. Barnum's schemes for emptying his tents of country coun-try people who insisted upon lingering long after the performance. Over a curtained exit he hung large signs reading: " " Tins' way 'to '. THE EGRESS. The people, thinking they were to see own cousin to tho emu, or some other strange beant. would crowd through (he opening, suddenly to find themselves out in tho wide, wide, world. |