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Wonders at the Dime, The Rattlesnake Man, who has astounded naturalists and who startles everybody who sees his performance, will walk into a den of deadly Brazilian rattlesnakes at the Ninth and Arch Museum this week and conquer them by the wonderful hypnotic power of his eye. It is one of the most daring ex hibitions ever before the public, and Man ager onerot Net, has to pay the serpent king one of the largest salaries received by any attraction. As he steps into the cage fifty ferce fer-de-lances, the most venomous reptiles on earth, leap on him, with their poisonous darts, and are just about to pour the fluid of death into his veins when he overpowers them by the glare of his eyes. These Brazilian shakes measure six feet in length and destroy thousands of men and beasts every year on the plains and in the forests of the Amazon country, but this man makes them drop at his feet in calm submission. He fondles them as if they were fireside pets, and they coil around him until he is buried beneath their window bodies and vibrating, rotting tails. It is a wonderful exhibition and the only one of the kind in the world. Another leading feature in the curio hall will be Etta Lake, the woman with the rub ber skin. The elastic skin man is only a common curiosity alongside of this animated gum woman. She can stretch her ear two feet from her head and pull the skin of her nose a yard away from her face, while ‘she can hide her hands in the folds of the skin of her forearms. A neighbor to her will ‘be the Parisian sensation; Rosa, the Bearded Beauty. She is a beautiful, refined woman with a beard, silky and black as coal. She stirred up a furore in Paris, where agents of Manager Bradenburgh engaged her to come to this country. _ The Prairie Dog Village goes to Denver after this week and Alfred Pilgrim, the limbless, prodig , will not be seen after next Saturday. Hugh armless and legless, he draws sketches, paints pictures, threads needles and loads and fires a gun. Peter Sampson, the strong man, will, bend street car tracks, break axles and snap chains in twatn and other sensational fea tures will be seen in the gumo hall. On the upper stage Seymour, the mind reader, will give a true remarkable display of his powers. He is the best mind reader
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Oct 19, 1890
Page 10
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Amanda S.
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