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Show IN Of COW CIRCUS No one competent to express an 1 opinion of the subject ever questioned the claim that the menagerie of Bar- num k Bailey's greatest show on earth contained tbo biggest and ror e?t collection of rare wild beasts: ever moved by road or rail Among (he additions are to be seen an extra-eidlnary extra-eidlnary and unprecedented number t African antelopes and springboks. Another ponderous amphibious attraction at-traction is the biggest known living Nlie hippopotamus, who was purchaJ ed with his late mate twenty-five years ago, has grown from a blessed baby of five hundred-weight to, tip the scales at five ions, anJ, strange in relate, though naturally a tender tropical creature, has become acclimated ac-climated tc live long and prosper iu water whcMo temperature would Jiut suit the polar bears. The five double herds of biggest, littlest and brightest elephants whose united ages It has been computed com-puted would reach from the bglu-L'ng bglu-L'ng of the first pyramid to the con -1 letlon of the last sky-scraper tho Sultan droves of gigantic and sacre ' camels and dromedaries, the group of giraffes, the great double dens filled with an ini er-continenf con gress of splendid specimens of ever ev-er thing worth seeing, will be here pjxt Wednesday nnd you will have a full hour in which to inspect them and enjoy trie popular prouienaue nuicert by a line military and areiiic band before the brilliant circus anu h.ppodraniatic- performances are anil an-il mured. A feature of the free street par-;.de par-;.de will be the exposition m elephants, ele-phants, camels and open cages of the wild animals. |