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A PANORAMA OF THE PAST. Kever again may it be possible to gather together the living representatives of so many romantic and picturesfque classes of mankind as are seen in Buffalo Biü's great Wild West Exhibition. The native Indiana are fast passing away and the redskin warriors who have terrorized the frontier States of out country will soon join the SCV" braves who have passec to the happy hunting-ground. The frontiersmen, scouts, and trappers have seen the day of their glory and have won well-nigh imperisliabie frame in Indian warfare and in tlie progress ol the nation. The Wild West exhibition lias attracted attention on both sides of the Atlantic, and called fortli expressions of unqualified delight because no other entertainment, however meritorious, could possibly furnish such a remarkable object lesson in history, and in no other theatrical or arenic display would it be possible to secure as a central figure so romantic, so picturesque a personage as Col. William F. Cody, or Buffalo Bill, as he is known the wide world over, who is the living exemplification of the romances iu real life of pioneer prairie experiences. Not merely ecause he is a handsome man, bot because lie is also a man with a history scarcely paralleled in its dangers encountered, victories gained, and its work achieved, by any of the great íeroes of romance or history. As one of his chroniclers has aptly said : "Col. Cody, as an Indian scout" and fighter, tands head and shoulders above all hose who have gained faine in the ame field of energy, enterprise, and lisplay of personal bravery. He has ïeld, and deservedly maintained, the losition of Chief of Scouts of the United otates Army, and was brought in intímate association with such great Amercan leaders as Gen. W. T. Sherman, Gen. Phil Sheridan, Gen. W. S. Hanock, Gen. Crook, Gen. Miles, Gen. 'erry, Gen. Carr, and many others, not he least remarkable of wliom was the ate much-lamented Gen. Custer. Manv imes he has been officially cominended, nd many times he has sacrificed peronal interest and abandoned personal esires in response to the cali of duty." n organizing the Wild West show Búfalo Bill has done a great service to the líation, for while incidentally he may e gaining material wealth, he is cerainly adding to the instructive opportinities of the hour. All the features of the entertainment are genuine and of very great interest. n fact there have been congregated for ,ho first time in history, peoples and aces, camping, living ana exercising on one spot, never brought together in uch a manner before in the history of the world. Indians from the Rockies, Cossacks from the Caucasus trained iders of the English, Irish, French, "Jerman, Iiussian and American cavalry, he Bedouin Arab oí the desert, the Cowboy of the American plains, Cavalymen of the Republic, and the Gaucho rom the foot-hills of the Argentine lanos, meeting for the first time and orming an ethnological and equestrian amalgamation never before witnessed in lie history of the world. The Wild Vest show will be seen here on Monday August 3rd. 4