Very Remarkable Features

Every year, for many past, the press and public have been widely enthusiastic over the extent and magnificence of the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Eartta, whioh will be seen bere exactly as it was in New York. But what will be said of it this year, superior as this season's show is to all previous ones? Indeed, the big show has been vastly improved and enlarged in all departments to a most wonderful extent. Now in the circus departmont alone one hundred acts are given at every performance, afternoon and evenlng, by as many daring champion equestrians, athelets', grymnasts, jugglers, aDd acrobats. There aro twenty acts in which perfectly trained animáis are seen with twenty comical clowns. Several of the latter were acknowlodged to be the funnlest fellows in Europe before Barnum & Bailey engaged them. There are three lady clowns also. After the acts in the three circus rings and on the three elevated stagoB numerous hippodrome races take place. Then there ia Johanna, the glant gorilla - only one in the world at present in captivity; the 70 horses, 24 trained elephanta, the human arrow, the strange people, such as the famous Orissa twiiis, the giant, the midget, the male and female jugglers, magicians, dancers, musicians, and ethers, who in the menagerie tent give a new entertainment before the regular performances begin, and many other remarkable features. Besides the most marvelous feats in mid-air the whole entertainment is of sucb. a grand character as to amaze everyone. A children's circus, too, is especially provided for the delectation of the little folks. The new million dollar free street parado will take place on the morning of the show 's arrival, and ia said to be the fineat of lts kind on eartli, contalning us a eonspicuous feature a miglity team of 40 horses, and ft reproductlon of Columbus' Retura to 0arcelona. It will all be here August 17.