Twenty Two Performing Elephants

On Wednesday, June 14, Forepaugh will exhibit here with his unparalleled establishment. Of the wonder moving scènes presented by hii twenty-two trained elephants, a recent exchange remaiks: "Volumes hive been written on the sagacity of the elephant, ani f rom time immemorial among the favorite storieg chosen to entertain the infant mind, varied and interesting anecdotes of these ponderous beasts. Even those of more mature years delight in reading the exploits of elephant hunting, and the thrilling adventures of Asiatic tourists are nerer inore graphically portrayed nor surrounded with greater interest than when enlirened by hazardous eucounters and hairbreadth ecapes from enraged specimens of the elephantine genus. No animal when roused is more implacable or more difflcult to avert from the object of its fury. In view of these facts Mr. Forepaugh, whoe sterling show exhibited here last night, is eutitled to unbounded credit for the enterprise exhibited in collecting 23 of these huge beasts and i educing them to snch subjugation as to muke possible this exhibition in a series of tricks and evolutions that surpass any anecdotes wntcea or related of elephantme sagacity, and tax the creduMty of those who do not witness their performance for themselves. This is the largest and most perfectly trained herd of elephants ever under the control of one man, and the interes; of the performance is wonderfully enhanced by the extreme youth of their tramer, Mr. Adam Forepaugh, Jr., who, only eighteen years of age, has this exceptioual number of mountainous beasts subject to nis slightest will and manipulates them wii.h as mucü coolness and ease aa though they were so mauy doinestic animáis and incapable of taking a sudden freak of independence that might result in a horrible death not only to himaelf, but to all who carne iu their path. The performances of these clumsy-loükiDK masses of flesh and bones baffle description and almost challenge belief. They dance, go through military evolutions, give acrobatic exhibitions, perform on tl e tight-rope, and do a varíety and number of uuheard of tricks too numerous for particulanzation, Perhaps the most marvelous of all their performances ií the grand elephautiiie pantomime which was prt-pared expressly for them, and in the course of which the sagacious beasts give evidence of their susceptibility to passions more than human in its vivid reality. They portray emotional feelings of love, jealousy, hatred, fear, anger, pride, mirth, grief, sarcasm, contempt, and the like, in a manner so realistic as to almost carry conviction of the truth of the transmigratory theories. Their performance last night was received with unbounded plaudits, and every man, woman and child in the vast audience heaved a sigh of regret as they were finally marched from the ring in stately order. "