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Show A CIRCUS STORY. The following rich story is related by an Indiana paper, at the expense of a queer genius who vibrated, botween Elkhart and Peru, as "advance" agent of a concert troupe, and who, though pretty clever at ''selling" the curiously inclined, does not always come off first best : Frank Ball, traveling iu a vohiole bearing a strong resemblance to a peddler's ped-dler's cart. Oid lady rusheB oiifc 1'rom a house by the roadside. The following follow-ing colloquy ensues; - . Old Lady "Say, what have you got to sell?" Ball am traveling agent, madam, for the grate&t menagerie of ancient or modern limes, which is shortly to be exhibited in this section, affording to tho inhabitants thereof an opportunity of viewing the most stupendous eo-tion eo-tion of animals ever uiion exhibited." " Old Lady "Ycm tfau't sy. ya e you uuy elephantstr . Ball "We have, madam, six elephants, ele-phants, but these aonstitute a. comparatively compar-atively quunportant part of the show. We have living ppeoimens of bipeds and quadrupeds, who roamed over the earth, not only in the , antediluvian, but also in the pillocene and postm-oene postm-oene periods, embracing trjs Megatherium, Megathe-rium, with six legs aptj tvo" tails ; the ichthyosaurus, with four eyes, two noses and four tails ; the plesioaaurus, resembling Satan in shape, which spits fire and breathes Bulphur, and many other species too numerous to mention. men-tion. We also hvo a pious lawyer." Old Lady " Well, 1 declare I" Ball n Bot ; madam, the greatest curiosity, by far, of our exhibition is a learned and classically educated monkey, mon-key, who was brought by a Mohammedan Mohamme-dan priest froo the mysterious regions of the Great Desert of Sahara. This monkey talks with great fluency all the modern languages, besides Latin, Greek and Hebrew. He can repeat the ten.commandments, the emancipation emancipa-tion proclamation, President Liocoln's last message, and performs the most intricate examples in mathematics with rapidity, ease and accuracy. While being in Washington he actually repeated re-peated a long speech of the president. This monkey corresponds " , Beautiful young lady suddenly sticks her head from the window and calls out: "Mother! Mother! ask him why thoylet the monkey travel so far ahead of the other animals ?' ' |