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»f thepro fa-after ne of moon each o en-Bun-be in at a cool,, the rders reo to Idlers regl-HERE AND EVERYWHERE,ds ingaveHeEastaster,aster,re Inwithis in trick.F, J. iatur-phich jight, 9.Mub-indayome”inchandsveraL baker i five -h.l the mill,Ome”Qche3inday on at Aug. d by *own-nlBh-inorefinrlInteresting: Items'Written up In an Entertaining Style.Showmen are human, but with a greatdeal of Yankee-I'don’t-care-for-tho-conse-quences, predominating. Amusement is essential to the happiness of the human race, but the circus older than civilization itself has fallen into bad renute through its dissolute habits ana is shunned by mauy worse than a nuisance. Honey bmok went wild a year ago over a circus that came there by accident, and took away probable over a thousand dollars. The same came again this week with double the number of elephants and display advertised and an admission of fifty cents. The circus left with a balance on the wrong side and Honeybrook vindicated itself by staying away from a ten cent city circus that charges fifty in the country. I am told that there were not a hundred at either performance and John O’Brien will hardly come to Honeybrook next year.Fifteen years «go this summer New Holland saw the last circus tent pitched where the engine house now stunds. What name it traveled by I do not remember auy more, but the afiair was of a low type accompanied by a host of cutthroats and robbers. Close to the entrance on the inside of the riug half a dozen were dealing out free lemonade to the innocents till it wan drunk when a dime was demanded and to avoid trouble always paid. One incident of an amusing character then as well as for a long time after I remember very well yet. A young man with his best girl paid sixty cents for five cents»worth of candy she accepted from one of the sharpers. If he was there on Wednesday I warrant he knew better.A few years ago John Powers and his sister Mary tbe fat Kentucky giants accompanied by a few frauds exhibited at all the smaller towns in the eouuty. The leading character and contortionist was Prof. Kelly as he called himself. Kelly would lift a barrel of water with his teeth; this he did once to often, a short time afterward somewhere in Montgomery county and died from the effects. Powers is dead too, while Mary follows a well known circus as aside show attraction in summer and sits in a museum during the winter. Captain Speke the well known African explorer tells us of certain cannibal African Kings who fatten their wives on milk until they are unable to walk or even stand straight. Whether Mary recuperates her ponderous self in the same way I do not know.
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New Holland Clarion
New Holland, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Jul 17, 1886
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