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P. T. BARNUM’S,p GRAND COLOSSAL7 Museum Menagerie!10 ''1'^HE largest Traveling Exhibition in the World 50 _J being a combination of all the most popular l.'g and unexceptionable amusements of the age—enlarged and improved for the Season of 1853.3,l£ Price of admission 30 cents. Children under 9 years of age half price. To the whole of this ini-;45 men so establishment, including Gen. Tom Thumb, 7 the entire collection of Wild Animals. Wax Statuary, Mr. Pieice’B performances in the Dens, the 75 Baby Elephant, Mr. Nellis’ performances, Ac., no extra charge under any pretence whatever, let the 15 reports be what they may. Doors open from 1% to 1, and from 7 to 9 o'clock. P. M.12 A TEAM OF TEN ELEPHANTS will draw75 the great. Oar of Juggernaut.,05 A BABY ELEPHANT, only one year old, and CO but3t;j feet high, will carry upon his back around il* tlic initiriurof the ipiawow P*rtliun, the LllltlU-m. tinn General TOM THUMB. The Magnificent Corrngo comprises 110 horses and 90 men. The 18 Pavilion of Exhibition has been enlarged until it is capable of accommodating 15,000 spectators at llts once. The collection of living Wild Animals includes the most splendid specimens ever exhibited in Aim-rica. Among mvny others will be found i EIGHT BEAUTIFUL LIONS fresh from their dl native forests. A monster white or Polar Bear, of prodigious size and ferocity. A magnificent Royal Tiger, the largest one ever captured alive. A ■ fits pair of young Lions, only six months old. An j lo- Infantile Camel, only six months of age—-the first in, one over born in America. Ac. Ac. re- The Drove of Elephants wore captured in the Junglesof Central Ceylon, by Messrs. S. B. June and Geo. Nutter, assisted by*260 natives, after a iirt pursuit of three mouths and four days in thejnn-—- j glos. They were finally entrapped and secured in . j Indian Kraal or Trap of enormous dimensions and nf prodigious strength, where they were subdued”.— lU The calf elephant accompanies its dam, and was Weaned on its passage from India.*. P. T. BAllNUM,Proprietor of the American Museum, New-York, has the honor to announce, that encouraged by the ft. brilliant success which has attended all his various efforts for the amusement of' the public, he has - been led to form the pfojcct of organizing a vast travellingv MUSEUM OF WONDERS,Which comprise* a greater variety of attractions, and more extraordinary novelties, than any travei-r |in^ Exhibition in the world. Every feature of ‘u- this Mammoth Establishment in of a peculiar and Km interesting nature, and the whole is produced upon e a gigantic scale of magnitude. The travelling par-uphurmiliu ot the American Museum, as it enters a each town, is preceded by the gorgeous IT Car of uj Jttjijvrnnntldrawn by ten elephants, superbly ll* caparisoned, being an accurate model of that ter* riblc engine of idolatrous sacrifice, finished and *r decorated in all the extravagance of the Hindoo ** style. Following this monster vehicle, is a long y i | mires* ilt;m of costly cages arid carriages, the whole * ' forming a spectacle of more than Oriental splendor. r The Exhibition will take place within a rnagniti*’’ c»»nt Variegated Favilion, composed of American (‘*jFag-i of water-proof fabric. The real, geuuine, s original Il'lGENERAL TOM THUMBis attache*I to this exhibition, and will appear in all his performances as given before the principalcrowned heads of Enrobe, including songs, dances, Grecian Semites, and bis admired personations of Napoleon and Frederick the Great. The little General is (treatyone wars of aye, weighs only fifteen pounds, ami is but twenty-eight inches high* Also engagedMR. NELI.1S, the man without arms, who will ex-eeitle bis extraordinary feats of louditig and firing a pistol with bis toes; fulling profile likenesses: shooting at a mark with a bow and arrow; playing upon ihe Accordeou and Violi/icello,cUi. Mr. Nellis. in ih«*»lt;lt; performances, exhibits a wonderful example of what indomiltdiU* eneigy and industry can accomplish, even when laboring uuder disadvantage^ apparently the. most insurmountable.A complete Menagerie of living wild animals, i« also included in the American Museum, und at a convenient period during the ExhibitionMR TihKUK will enter the Dens oil he wild beasts and give his classical illustrations of Hercules struggling with the Namiean Lion: Daniel in the l.ion’s Den; Sampson destroying the Lion. Ac.One of the most interesting portions cf the exhibition formed h*C the displpy of a great collectionof WAX STATUARY, including figures of the sue of life, of all the Presidents of the United States, and also of n great number of noted char-nctees, American and Foreign, all of which areac-eiirate likenesses, mid appropriately costumed. In fact the whole establishment is a vast repository ofWONDERFUL OBJECTS OF NATURE AND ART, the full particulars it would be imnoaaible to give wiihiu the limits of a newspaper advertise inuiit, and which has been brought together at an enormous expenditure of mean*. forthing the lar gest and most novel travelling Exhibition la this or uny oilier country.A fine Military Band will perform the moat pop ular air* of the day, ae the procession enters town and also dur tag the exhibition.THE AMERICAN MUSEUM AND MEN AO ERIE will exhibit atGosport, Friday, July 0tbOresncastle, Saturday, July 9th.Terre llauto, Monday, ' 11th
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Greencastle Sentinel
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Thu, Jul 07, 1853
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