A Foreign Triumph

On the sixteenth of October las Sells Brothers' Big Show of th World sailed from San Francisco fo Sydney, Australia; thus iñauguratin the most extraordinary and venturesome tour of its kind on record, and which was destined to bear the golden fruits of a proportionate success. The leading journals of America all backed its pluck and enterprise with the strongest editorial assurance that its proprietors were entitjed to universal respect as representatives of the best type of genuine American manhood, and their great exhibition to all the popularity and successes such ownership ought to confer. That they never compounded with fraud by claiming that "people liked to be humbugged." That they acted upon the wise and just principie of giving patrons more than their money's worth, and always recognized that one man's money was as good as another's, bygivingthe same complete show in every place of phiWion, instead of stuffing the ■netropolis and then starving the ■armer, under the pretense of serv Ing him the same feast. That they ■reated the public fairly, and by so ■ oing gained the full backing of fcopularconfidence in their promises ■rhose made to the people of AusIraüa certainly suggested the biggest feast of anímate wonders and amazing acts ever spread before an eager throng, and of the tens and hunddreds of thousands who patronized the show during its six months' Australian season there is proof, universal, emphatic and undeniable that not one went away disappointed, or dissatisfied. It is evident that only merit, and that of the most pronounced kind, could secure good words from a not overpartial, independent and critical foreign press; and when it unanimously conceded, as it did even before the show was able to utilize a single horse in any way, that its surpassing greatness was no vain boast, it settled the question of honest supremacy both at home and abroad. The great Sydney dailies remarked that multiplying circuses and stages and entertainmentsmight appear at first sight to be a waste of energy and talent, but there was no denying the impressiveness that it lends to the show as a whole. That the spectator feit himself bewilderingly ámazéd by the variety of the efforts' made for his entertainment. That space failed them to note all the striking features of a program almost as complicated as a railway time table. This one thing, however, remained distinctlyclear: That in Sells Brothers' amusement arithmetic, ciphers don't count. No aggregation of them will make a unit; neither will any number of commonplace things and unknown fill-ups make a great show. The Messrs. Sells know this, and their united grand Australian living exhibit, monster menagerie, royal Roman hippodrome, triple circus, elevated Olympian stage, aerial displays, tribe of wild Bedouin warriors, children's .fairyland frolics, darkest África aquarium, spectacular pilgrimage to Mecca, and Arabian Nights' entertainments,' include and represent only that which is most wonderful, excellent, exciting, and refined. From performing Saammoth, or huge disporting amphibia, to daintiest detail, there is nothing inferior or commonplace about this extraordinarily rich and attractive alliance. It possesses every feature, feat, and display, of both home and foreign origin, in keeping with such an entertainment, that can be procured, and many nowhere else to be seen; and all will be exhibited at Ann Arbor on Thursday, Sept. 22, just as advertised, and with the honorably won prestige of holding first place in two great empires, thousands of miles apart.