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Show Barnum's Frankness. On one occasion Barnum had an elephant engaged in plowing on the Hloping hill where It could plainly be seen by the passengers on the New Haven and Hartford railroad, an agricultural agri-cultural innovation that he knew would get notice of some sort in every newspaper in the country.' It was even said that he received letters from farmers far and wide asking how much hay one elephant ate, and if it were more protable to plow with an elephant than with horses or oxen. His replies were Invariably frank, and were. of this purport: "If you have a large museum in New York, and a great railway company com-pany sends trains full of passengers within eyeshot of the performance, it will pay, and pay well; but if you have no such institution, then horses or oxen will ,rove more economical." |