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Show The circus, j The following was ciowded out of the last Issue: ll Klngllng has come and gone and not'l a few shekels fiom the pockets of I Cache Valley's ioung hopefuls and those old enough to lose hope went, with him. The show was the same) gigantic, bewildering niao of the, wotld's wonders In the animal and; aerial kingdom, but the uiowd was haidl the same, in point of sle, that, j Ins usuallj gieeted the show at this1 place. There was rather a laigel uiowd heie ahlght, but the ticket oillte iccelpts show at least one-fouith less business than at any pievlous visit Whelhei this is indicative of prosperity or tlnanclal depiession is a matter of conjecture. Some say the people were too busy to come In, otheissa) the farmeis will not have any inonc) until fall, while the ic-malndci ic-malndci saj Klngllng is getting stale. With the possible exception of a jenr oi two, this aggiegalion has come ic-gulail) ic-gulail) dining the past six oi eight leais. and the people may want a change Hut Tin: Rk.i'I'iimlan Is willing to veutuie that a change will not piove foi the bcttei. Klngllng Kros. have In the big show line practically all II Is possible to give the people, and it Is doubtful If the peiformance of jesterda) can be discounted. Jerusalem Jerusa-lem and the Cuisades is magnificent as a spcctular pioduutlou and while a lot of us old chionlcs may not care foi' it, this pait was certainly highly sat-isfactoi) sat-isfactoi) to the larger part of the lL'.OOOoi lo.OOO piesent. The c.xpeit horsemanship was common of course, but. the delight of eveiy sphltcdboy ' and gill, and can any of )ou forget when the tiapese perfotmences, tight- ' whewoik. and the tumbling was a subject of conveisatlon for month's 'iiftmV The trick blevcle riding wasn't altogethei new, of course, but 1 did that detract fiom Its ical merit? ITIie really wonderful work of the sea j lions is old, too, to some, but none-the-I less enjoy able except to the few who the easily. The menagrle was cer-I cer-I tainly up to the standard, although snakes weie conspicuous for their 1 absence As a whole theie was easily fiO cents worth foi any tody, and who can say what It was really worth to the boys I and girls, nnd to otheis whoaic not I yet victims of chronic dyspepsia and 1 an over dose of ennui. i Hveiything went oil without a Jai of any kind and be it said to the ciedlt of the show that "giafters" and "thugs" are not pennltted to follow in Its wake. Theie was a iob- beryortwoln the evening, but this can baldly be laid to any fault of the show management. Maishal Ciocket and his foice, with assistants, kept (the populace well In hand, and the I day passed pleasantly. A l.nge Hum- 1 ber weioat the station to see the 77 leais unloaded. The Hauls Music Co. had a display Jn the paiade that altiacted almost as much attention as the elephants. Two hoises pulled a thiesher which I had been coveted In such a way as to 1 prove a most excellent ad for the thin. On top was a bunch of peifonners and on the seat sat "Chailey." The turnout turn-out was not greatly unlike the other show wagons, and was highly cicdlt-able. cicdlt-able. The Thatcher Music Co. also had outaiig Dealing one of their tine pianos with tt? selling mice marked on It. In Is said that at iiovo and Salt Lake, Klngllng Hios. did fully one-half one-half larger business than lastyeai. |