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Some Special Attractions

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
September
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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                                                                      For the County Fair This Year.

                                                                        ______________________

                                                                        NEW  AND  INTERESTING.

                                                                        ______________________

                                                                      Something New and Interesting
                                                                       will be Shown Every Day Well
                                                                            Worth Admission Price

                                                                               ______________________
 

The committee on special attractions have been untiring their efforts to make this part of the Fair more interesting and novel than ever before. They have corresponded with only the best of actors and have secured the best performers obtainable.
The expense has not hindered them from getting what Washtenaw's people deserve.

First of all, they have secured the famous Ching Lee Too troupe, which consists of three Chinese magicians, jugglers and acrobats, Ching Ling Too, Prince Fee Lung, and, Miss Ten Too Nee.
Ching Ling Too is the only Oriental necromancer or enchanter in the United States, save one. He produces from space immense animate and inanimate objects, instantly in full view of all the spectators, and causes them to disappear at will. Baskets of beautiful flowers, tureens of delicious fruits, bowls of nuts and tubs of water are marvelously materialized from nothingness.

One of the best tricks of the great trickster, Ching Ling Too, is from a common-looking piece of cloth. He instantly and very mysteriously produces a large china bowl filled to the brim with boiling water, which can be. seen bubbling, seething and steaming before all the astonished spectators. Three buckets of water are taken from the bowl, and a very good estimate of the immensity of the bowl can be obtained from the fact that the bowl and its contents weigh eighty pounds.

Prince Le Fung is a real Chinese Prince, and his fire-juggling and acrobatic work is a distinctive feature of this wonderful troupe.

Miss Ten Too Nee. a charming little Chinese maiden, knows as many tricks as her famous fellow-tricksters. She causes tables to float in midair and similar acts.

This troupe has been procured at a great expense and it is well worth anyone's time and money to see this famous troupe.

Ray Barton, the famous equilibrist, will do his famous tricks at the Fair. He is the most famous high wire performer in the world. His tricks on the surging wire are marvelous and startling.
He juggles while standing on a ladder on the wire and holds a lamp. shade and all. on his hand at the same time.
He does this same trick with a lamp and stands on the wire on his hands.
He is the greatest fancy rifle shooter on the earth. and is a sure hit, too, and he does all his work on the wire. a rifle in each hand.

Ray Barton's tricks are almost indescribable, they are so varied and so numerous. While maintaining balance on the wire Mr. Barton performs combinations of three or four feats simultaneously.
Things we could not possibly do standing on firm ground he does up high in the air where all can see. The imitators attempt but one of his feats at a time, and then on a wire less than half the height of his wire.
He bas performed in all the great cities of the United States and Europe. Lately he has been in New York Brooklyn, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Springfield. Mass., Boston, Rochester, Sandusky and Canada.
Everywhere his acts meet with hearty applause. Surely the people of Washtenaw want to see this famous man. I

Irish Porkers - Great Clown Pigs, with fine stage trappings.

Children will go wild with delight over the trained pigs at the Fair. Bring the little ones and let them see the fun. They will be happy the rest of the year and train every cat. dog, chicken, duck and pet pig on the farm until yon can start a show of your own.
The farmers themselves will jump with delight to see the dumb animals perform. In fact, the pigs present a rare display of animal culture and intelligence without precedence in the animals of performing brutes.
They are marvelous sagacious, very funny. tricky, and very funny and as clean as can be. They are washed just like babies. and they like it. too. They even ride in baby carriages and push each other around. They are the latest novelty in the line of trained animals.
We can't describe all the tricks the pigs do, but they act like real clowns and are just as funny. Come and see them and then you'll know about it and will have had a good laugh besides.

                                                                                     Diving Dogs

Another attraction is a cunning little dog. He is almost human and a great pet. He dives like an expert and doesn't have to be driven to his tricks.
This is more sport for the children and grown folks also, for everyone enjoys intelligent animals.
|The little dog will dive from a ladder as long as you wish. He climbs the ladder like a little man and then jumps off.