The Great Barnum Venture

Of all the gigantic schemes since the unforgotten days of the Jenny Liiul excitement and the Gen. Toin Tliuinb furore, DOtblflg has stirred the people like this last undertaking. The papers teil us that the public grow wild and rush en masse to the exhibitions in such overwiielming miiiibeis that, sometimes, not more than half who desire om get inside. The Chinese Giant Chang, Toni Thumb and his tiny wife, tho over grown menagerie nnd the extraordinary ainount of circus talent which appears in thrae slmultaneous arenas side by sido, is whatisdoing it. As the veteran manager giows oliler his popularity lacreases, and he undertakes treraendous enterprises that would banknipt any other showman in the world, but hini. Barnum and his inagnificent consoüdation is to be In Ann Arbor, ¦l"ly lath. and we look tor a repeütion f the tHumphl whioh have crowned this sliownian-antocrat all aloBg the line.