BARNUM IN LONDON.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 410, 12 October 1889, Page 3

BARNUM IN LONDON.

.London is about to bo, shall we not; say honoui-ed by the visib ot the Hon. P. .T l>arnum. He has taken Olymuia from the 20th of October next-, -ans';njeatss to ''have there the Bi^ge^t j^hovv on Earth. v ,^p Days £4,000 for the building, and qouq^, vHJjti his en tire menagerie, hippodrome; and paYa^fjernalia, in five steamships! - He will have With him 800 performers, 380 horses, 40 ponies, 18 elephants, 26 camels, 32,1 ed beasts, :&n'elk,V'£),; buffalo, zebi as,' dromedaries, and'wh'atnot else, besides 40 cages bf 'rare wild "animals,,' the stuffed skip ,of the worM-fehowned' Juinbo'and his ( skeleton, 10 bands of 'music and colossal orchestrian combinations* of mechanical musical instruments, '22 golden chariots for 'the 1 grand' illuminated night 'street pageants ; 60 tons of printed matter,. 1 illuminated and illustrated descriptive bills, posters, and catalogue. This stupendous show will not exhibit in any city except London. It will open on the Ist November, exhibit 7 00 days and .nights, and then return to New York. The 'expense will exceed 750. 000 ' dollars. ' Bafuum'sayshimself about 'ifc — - ''lfc" 'has Been'my chief desire for many years to give the English people "a show, greater and grander than any they have ever seen there, and as I am now nearly 80 years old, I determined to, do it, while J was still m, robust health. We shall make this' a re'presentati\ e'Amcrican exhibition, andevery- ' thing phown will be the very best thab can be obtained. Theie will be no animals' equal to ours, and every performer will be the champion in his 1 line of Work. If I don't surprise and astonish London, I will be very much surprised and astonished my- - self, and ie takes something to suipriae me now, I can tell you.' 'Banium means to win, and neither heart nor pur«e phall fail him in his magnificent enterprise, King of Showmen that he is,v ' ' '