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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1871-02-03, Page 2• CIRCUSES AND CIRCUS MEN' THE RIDER, T -HE• GYMNAST AND THE CLOWN --THEIR TRICKS AND THEIR MANNERS—ALL ABOUT THE • SAW- DUST ,ARENA. • The true. American circus is one of our greatest "institutions." The spending of that Spanish quarter which first admitted us within a eircue, gave ns impressions which nothing can efface,' How that cou- rier• of Sc. Petersburg, dashed through whirling mists of - snow (saw -dust !) te carry his mes- sage to his Imperial master,. le- gardless of - wolves or frozea rivers How purely oriental; redolent of Arabian Nights, the Be- douin entreel How nicely all the cream -colored chargers sat down, and that little girl, who brougl t them a plentiful feed of oats, ajll around, in. a -flo,pr-basket.! Arijd then the alarum trumpet dash, the flurry, the combat! We have seen real Arabs since, and very , dirty fellows they were; also a cav- alry charge or so, but our circus he - Toes are still the handsomest, and bravest of.the brave. And the real Indian (Mr. de.Courtenay Simpson) who said "Hough ! Hough- !" who plied the bow, the club, the paddle. That latter instrument; will there ever be a fresher joke to our ears than that expressedby the el own, when he said " his mother used just aids to tura bUckwheat cakes With !" The coon shot, mysteriously thrown • into the ring, which as magically at-. taches itself tethe clown. The side- splitting; agonies of • that clown, and then the real dog," who, furiously bounding in with ); fearful howl, clutches at: the coon and pulls down clown and all. No Count D'OrSay eau ever be SO- elegant as the,, ring- - masker of ourday, with the goid bralde -down his pantaloon seam. And the shepherd and ihepherdess-! Well! ! Florian may write- •- bucolic.s, or Watteau paint tlieni, • but never will such- impressions • tome to us again. Even when. the :circuS left the town, folding "—their tents,lilfe ihe Aral)S; And as silent ty ptealing away," • all ,was not losti! There still-- r`el- mairted the circle, lingering like 80ine huge fairy ring, which neither snow or lain can effaee ; then; boy centaurs, how we *raced round midi • round, at times Shetland ponies, or untamed steeds of the Ukrane. Tf • in good Queen Anne's time a famous acrobet jumped over six :horses, as such is handed down te posterity, we have vaulters nowadays who can take their flying leap iiver a dozen, and if old Marco Polo was astonish- • ed at the court of the Great Mogul, at the man. who sprang over an ele- phant, what woeld he say to the performer of the present "day, who •would bound over a mastodon if such an animal was extant? eateusas OF THE PRESENT rtAY. Circuses ephemeral, save in Loh - don or Paris, areein most of the° • large cities of the 'United States permanent performances throughout the year. SiiIIImer is, howeverathee bet- season for their business, and many of them eeniain idle during the winter. Whea pleasant May is half over, they prepare for their long journey. Sometimes their ob- jective point is a thousand miles diS- tant, and they give perfmmances at all the various cities, towns and-: hamlets by the way. Occasionally peregrinations are made to distant countries beyond the., seas. Jour- neys to Earope are not unfrequent. The West Indies is a common stamping ground, aud Sonth Amer- ica has been harvested. A fragment. of a treupe oace got to Australia; and as long ,agO as the Crimean war, that little difficulty only prevee ted • a company frorn landing at Odessa, and working its way to St. Pete, s- burgvia Moseow. On a circus cam- • paign everything is carefully studied, —distances, questions of .forage are accurately eitamined ; and -such is the irrecision of movement that last • season Mr. Lent's New -York Cir- cus performed alona° a ioute of trav el from New-Yorkto St. Lois for five months and twenty days With- out missing a single day's exhibifi.ou. The majority of circuses adopt 'the primitive style of caravan move- ment, and plod along across country with their animals and 13,aggage vans. • A company of this nature may em- ploy as many as 150 people, with 100 horses. Of this force, forty may be • riders, gymnasts an musicians ; the remainder eanvassera agents, bill - stickers, grOoms and teamsters. But, as in military movements, railroads are used, the best companies now adopt this method, and arrive fresh at their point of destination. This iS also found, for certain sections of the country, -to be the most econ- omical. • • RIDERS' ST....ARIES. - One would be -surprised at the large salaries paid circus people in Summer, which we think would mike many anxious to adopt the bare -back business. Three hundred and fifty dollars a week has been paid to Mr. Robinson and his soli, and from .one hundred dollars to one hundred and fifty per week for Jess celebrated riders is no uncoraa mon price, The varian Brothers, or, the Corfu Co us, or ,. the Ura- guay Uncles, if,w up in the" all - together" busines will bring two hundred a week least in he cir- cus. market. A .1 demoiielle Saute Barriereewill drar her one handed and fifty dollars 1 r week, and a . . young, handsome, rather stately Mad me Ilaute Ep le, who can -Tide well en, Amazon *handling her horse in good -styli , being scarce in the 1 usiness justnow, might be wort more. • 1$ or performers, genmal utilities, fill -ups, get their twen Native dollar )er week. These price are cut dm i about one third in Wi ter. deowels AND NG -MASTERS. • Ci wns yary rn i tlie act that ev play clown, and lowered somewha hardly creditable, have been assured Dan ice has- rec 1 $4,000 a inonth folr with as trickhor4e ing nd tumbling from $75 to 810 pu.bli requiring sefriecy, three clo wns ta a irons is now 4 common Occur- rence We are pleased to say that, with realm to the higher realms of ar , the Shake peareau clown is no -w out of favor. Only toterated • ti e provinces, he is not appieci- ced .n. the lave; 'cities. As I was quai tly einarke1 to us by a. gen- tleina in." the business," "alt t 0Se ello s who con141 not ' spell heir wn. names want4 to be Sh kes. petite n clowns. t'a played e'it. Druv in the gro0 d." Good ing- ast rs are alwak, • diffieult to ob- ain. ' They . er iiist h aVe mien, and 'epo tnient, and cting - as Greek !boruS to the per o nii,Ae, have, at he metime, a h rMegh know - edge of the horse ,iiin the ticts. , It -is 4 position n u 11 sought after, nd iot so often e 1 filled. Alae ! the s hool of the 1 ustrious Widdi- 0111 b or's. Their sal - ire is ) r wrk h in price, from ybody wants to ompetition has he salary. It is owever, but we f the fact, ttliat. -ed asmUhas is performances A good talk- elosvn is worth per week. The has few irnit abouree100 ED HORSES 11 -trained jh RAI W %verve at a &Ay • He barrier, that i 1 ed calico c lad o shy in the )rice. • If they a r n g , as dlY buy 5 them. d norees " figures. well put up, -• mules, like D TRICK-wilLES. r.es, that do not b'll fluttering in ve an easy pace are worth their nicely mottled, rs, $1,506 will Lately, one or anged hands" at first-rate teick- s cheap at 85,000, 'Shakespearean nly our prefer- are,out ot faVot, e house does net besides that, and fractered imes to be Corn - wog • hese arse, ‘ric •low ence Phe (stating ep r the mules) liar part of tl or them, at). eaw-oones es have sornel ed for. F4 You could ride that here,"• said dur polibe friend, g• out to ts in Mr. Dent's 6 0 Te rok •lavi poun mule Poi uti eta e fron 0'0 as (Yet h ake twin. rofes a. Most phil here to Ha/ tea.dy as in m an the ring, and he would refit pleasur •n kickieg your Out. We 1 e to employ a ilmal mule- er for. him, and nt. Such Par- , and in the sea - ides him gets a r's salery." The be a long-lived ard of a reVolu s to longevity, e circus horse family, the for - to live to twice Some horses ap- the New York ophical lent You woUld . street -car ; but -hat's a peculiar t ies a e vele, ecard / i on t e man who ist-c ASS book-kee agle 's supposed tO 1; we have v goose; bu as it is for ti at of °theta. The lare 1 nun iona • hen •rith ler nd t • eari ircu. ent. nind ecog vith ne onae ynas them fulh -Centre of op but. one (Al manent -aff two, and Ci binations w mon, and so able fine. thirty dens above ther sonic ten hi' ed by the rc The n u be cians,groom .organized e Lent is is a stables are skins moot as thoroug their full, n. tails looked lady's tresse and docility the happy fondling w gentle whin ROUTES— As to rou as well as t posing entre much to do HU-RON EXPOSITOR. • ra ions, theugh -there is . Lent's) which is a per - int Philadelphia has • I • cuanati the same. Coin- th 'Menageries are coin- ielof these are remark- ne in Philadelphia has f animals. Besides the are over the country nor establishments, call- fession cross -road shows. efl performers, musi- ,&c.,attached to a well- taglishment like Mr. out seventy. In the oVer forty horse, their and glossy as silk, and • toilet is a necessity, cely-combed manes and as well cared for as a iExtretne gentleness seemed to. pervade the family, and any little s responded to with a y. NTERING THE TOWNs. es the West pays about e East, though an 'im- and propAr billing has ith the success. Some companies • dopt the grand caval- cade turn -out, where the whole . .. . troupe is m. tinted ; ethers carry the ..townewith a triumphal. car rivaling Juggernaut' • The one lately smash- ed up and p• id for by the Erie Rail- road, cost_11 r. Lent $8,000. Amid 'circus statistics we may state that Mr. Lent's wenty-four horse driver, who drives he car is unique of his kind. Like an organ soloist he plays or dri es his horses with his et. The South was once o of circus ratites, but scarcely paying ground. The Southern negro IS tlItit greatest of circus patrons. Not at alt times a very econ • mica creature, his na- ture change when the circus bilk is posted • up.. Then every cent I of money is h arded, aud _during its stay corn, c- ttoft and tooacco must 1 , take cared heinselves. Repeating the, old Gre k tihronological ideas of events a :--ii ring iti such and such olympiads, t tey, (-tete facts from eir- cusses, as " /eddy Pompey him die de eircus af re last," or "Dat child him born de bery:day de circus lef„" We are incl'neil.tu think the story true, that at a 'esnall town in Ala- bama, a Circ. is arlived just after the war. There was a ffourishing freed- man's saving bank there. The (At, cus stayed t o lays -.the bank was broken.—N tv York limes. , -OH. Ho e Courtesies. ii Now, you young fellow at theta- b1e reading he evening paper, and nodding in a surly way ti) your !both- er and sister take a -test. If path. clothes breathed. - a delicious fra- grance -e --say f heliotrope or roses— hands and f che El Dora just now it i butWould d so Only when ydu were at home, or only: when you were abread, whi h Would you choose? Would you •!nen:sweet at home, or 1 when you (Slit away orn home ? Would you have a perpetual cli- enate of rare dors in you,Own house, or elsewher- Of eaurse, you would have •t borne, for your own comfort and eejoyment, you -cur- madgetm for nothiug elSO. Bat what is (.1()) estic. courtesy but the of b liotropes and roses at home i as much for your own pleasure tha you should be pleasant -comparing piest housch ld lin the Noild tlattt 0 he rest of h in which ourtesy is new every niinal seems rice his age. g nightly How mai y of us, bredtren and started bt1s nes with, Mr. and nothing can shake our sisters, make home the reg•liag of ill- -humors and caprices, and wretched fronci the fii ! belief that we moods of ev ry kind, while we careized a certt ri white horse fully hide theni from a stranger ! i. flesh colore4l nose as the same When the g est arrives, we slide a e paid. our first quarter to see, chair over t e rent in the carpet, time daring Gen. Jackson's and slip a tidy over the worn edge of the sofa -cushion, and lay a pret- 6 morning an •fresh , every evening, like the celetial benedictions. y. Late hours. seem to do o harm; but we supposezare- dliug, 'perfect cleanliness, and good usage prolang their lives. LONOBVITY OF CIRCUS ACTOR. Physiologically,ciicusactois ought, a di heor ends voul he c early, but facts are against . ' If over tiecular exertion to diseases f, the heart, it be just as pi4ue to end early reers of blae smiths' strikers. rom early training the frame. grad - ally is ta itself to t e profession, and o il -consequences are felt. Pro- essio als of sixty are Rot micom- O on, who when ,c lied upon,will hro youv ; a backvi• rd somersault aS eadilv as other p ople out of the usin ss ahd, of th same age, can valk p stairs. Of contse, accidents ill iappen. Of] te, the attempts o tlic. w double -son eisaults have.re- ultel in several br ken necks, and in ac ident or so oc-urs every year rom he flyingtrai eze ; but in the bsen e of any stati tics on the sub- jects,e ghould th uk that street paint rs and roofers kill themselves more frequently tha our friends the gymnasts:- • EXTUT OF THE BUSINESS. • The amount of capital employed in a.first-Class circuS is fully $100,- 000, and- lately ore -eighth of an establishment found a purchaser at $18,000. New York has no less than five circuses, which neake it a tily bound upon the pa at his corn look over the ink stain lor table -cloth ;• and so ng the flying hair is smoothed, . a d the sullen look is gilded with a smile, and the sour tone is suddenly wonderfully sweet. Shriveled ol Autumn blooms in a mement int • rosy Spring. And how is a youth to know that this house, wher everything seems to smile, is not 'always as warm and sunny as b finds it? Yet this a . young woma so neatly dressed, so quietly mannered, so facinating to the young nan, may be the most " ineffici1'ent of human beings. Still, he can never know it until it is too late. H e cannot put it to the pr. oof He takes the divinity epon trust. All that he knows is that she is a woman,. and that. he loves. And whether he thinks that house- hold intelligence and thrift and end- less courtesy cpme by nature, like Dogberry's iheading and writing, or whether he assumes that, having a mother, his peerless princess has been carefully taught all the duties • of a queen, or whether, as is most probable, he knows only that he loves, the dut•y of the parent is still the saHne. ' ' But to the ordeal :of the house- hold who can ceme too well pre- pared? And what parent, what hu- man being who has learned by ex- perience., but would gladly equip • every child with the most perfect equipment? No, Dorinda Jane, to whoin the youth, crusty At home, will presently come sweetly smiling. it is not the &wing hair and the graceful dress, and the bloom upou the cheek, and the soft lustre of the eye, that will make home happy.. No, nor is it his horses and plate,; and the ;luxury and ease he prom- ises. If -he is harsh and crabbed, what if he has fifty thousand a year? If you are careless and ignorant -and helpless, the victim instead of ruler of your house, what if your eyes are black and your cheeks a, dim carnation Aud yot4, dear Sir and Madam, who permib that boor to sit surly at the table, and to growl in monosyllables at home, you who suffer that fair -faced girl to grow up utterly unequal • to the du tiee to which she will be called, you are re- sponsi ble. —Editor's Easy Chair, 'in harper's Magazine. The Royal Marriage—Prussian Objedtions to the Princess Louise'S Nuptials. The London correspondent if the Manchester Guardian, speaking of the approaching "happy event" in England, says :—The arrangments approach completion preparatory to the marriage of the Princess Louise with the Marquis of Lorne, and no alteration is perceptible id the gene- ral feeling with which the alliauee is regaeder'd. &range to say, how- ever, there are whisperings of objec- tion made—not in England, but at a certain foreign court (Prussia) whose right to murmur in the mat- ter few among us woeld be disposed to admit. .As the hints aud intima- tions of disapproval said to have been volunteered cannot by possi- bility have found their way through offieial channelsthe intru- sive and unwarrantab'e attempt at in termeddling in what concerns -on- ly the royal family of England and the English people is certain to be stoutly, pei haps • superciliously, de- nied. But this wouid not material - 1.y affect the fact of such foolish no- tions • having been entertained, or the more gratify* certainttha t they wilt be treated with dignified disregard by the illustrious • person- age whose judgment, has bAen frum the first appreciated and approved by the nation. We don't ask, or even conjecture, how. 'such commu- nications may have been conveyed and how they have been met. One cannot entertain any misgiving on the subject. . We may be well as- sured that'the Queen is never likely to forget what is due to her own dignity and to the „consistence and maintenance of her endeeendence as head of the rovalofamily and of a free State. • Enelishmen will trouble themselves little as ,to what, may be thought by foreign courts of her Majesty's views and intentions with respect to the guardianship of her children, and the discretion she may exercise in matters touching their 4 LD RESPECTFULLY inform individual welfare. 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SIMS RIPTION PRICE—Only $3 per yeiu for which are given the paper for one year and a copy of Marshall's Superb ngraving of WashiLgton, to all ncw scribers. Specimen copies sent FREE by mail to any address. J. FORD P CO., Publishers, 161 • 39 Park Row, New York City aforth Salt ! AN & GOUINLOCR COLE N'Vr ot -FEBRUARY 3, 1871. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. 1DERSONS WHOSE Subscriptions to the EXPOSITOR are overpaid will be supplied. by MR. McLEAN, who is also empowered to collect all unpaidsubscrip- time. In this particular we would 'urge upon those in arrears the necessity of settling, with all possible dispatch. • WM. LUXTON,, Seaforth Foundry a ZAPFE & CARTER DESIRE TO CAL THE ATTENTION, OF THE PUBLIC', TO THEIR IMPROVED Threshing Machines THE BEST AT PRESENT IN USE. These machines possess many improve-- merits on any heretofore made They are manufacturing Machines of TWO SIZES, one especially constructed for travelling; the other a smaller size, calculated. more especially for HOME IJSE. So far as their large machine has bee introduced, it has given the VERY BEST SATISFACTION. They manufacture the Pitts' Improved Horse Power. In additim to the above,the subscrib- ers manufacture ahnost c4ry article in their line, such as • SAWING MACHINES, Capable a sawing from 50to 60 cords a wood per day, • STRAW CUTTERS, of a Superior kind. • GANG PLOW, The Latest Improved. CULTIVATORS AND PLOWS,, Which cannot be surpassed. EVERY DESCRIPTION- OF CASTINGS MADE ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE. They have a highly.approved pattern for SCHOOL DESK IRONS. REPAIRS IN ALL BRANCH -ES Attended to Promptly. ly lnoken, which, upon the conti- nent, limited the choice of persons of the blood royal to alliance with pereons of royal birth. In England. as everybody knows, the limitation sanctioned by tradition h..ts rested with the arbitrary provisions of a statute passed in one of the worst periods of our history-. - • No act of her -long reign has indi- cated more clear] v the Queen's per- . te'iptiou of t tree idiosynicracy of her people. . ea no tick has evoked a gent:let1) -w wore genuine response of approval than that by which the son of the Duke of Argyle ha S7 been 'permitted to claim the hand of the Princess Louise. But, even were it otherwise, there eale be no doubt that the word of the sovereign hav- ing once' been given in such a case, the whole nation -would reject as an insult the idea that it could or should limner be broken to the prejudices of a foreigu court. ADVICE TO A Sox.—Do not begin to quarrel with the world too soon, for, bads it mav be, it is the best we have to live in here. If railing wotild have made it better, it would hag m been reformed long ago. The worst .fault it has is its want of charity, and calling knave or fool at .eyery turn will not cure this failing. If there are not so many knaves and fools as we find, the wise and honest would not be those bright and shin- .ing characters that they are allowed to be . . . We my laugh or weep at the madness ef mankind; we have no righ to vilify them for our own sake oit theirs. Misanthrope is not the dis ust of the mind at human nature 1 but with itself: for it is lay- ing it4 own exaggerated vices as blots art the doors of others.- Do not, however, mistake what I have here said. I would not have you adopt the low and sordid fashion of palliati ting things. crimin little g —Th fechan, agreed g existing abuses—of put - ie best face on the worst I only mewl that indis- te unqualified satire can do od. 4* U. P. Presbytery of Ecele- umfriesshire, without a division, a motion in favor of Union. SA T WORKS! AT S AFORTH! 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Liquers' for medi- cinal purposes. J. SEATTElt, Seaforth, Nov. 3, 187k •59-tf. FEBRUARY 3, ...•••••••••••••• The Gravel Road Del nerAy to Mr. T. Mel To the Editor of 14 Huron SIR—In the issue of OR of 12th inst., 1 obs article over thesignatt Thomas Malec eel, set first, that he ha4ventilat ket "fee" question irapo grasTang corporations and Seaforth. As I do11. take up time nor space ing that question '. as I th has already beet!' said abi rest on its merits. 13nt, to put him right in a few ters more particularly1 with County Improvemel Northern Gravel Road The reasons he gives ; against the purchase of sa- ---'the Town of !Godericl road at a speculation fr they expected to receive ' dends, and had they bee 20 or 40 per cent on t.13K they would not have reef farmers of Huron to puret them." Now Sir, as t einlauit:eastiateortehei4n14owt: gNvo-cinr4J . a speculation - neither did build the road; that assel so untrue. The facts are Municipal Corporation of lent to a Joint Stock Con sum of $60,000, taking a' said Company for $57,00( terest at six per Cent, ,all4 a, 130mis of $34000 to 1 them in carrying out thei Company put in, of their ney, $20,000 making in al From this stateMent of fae a4 the Rullett pbilosephl 'OM Was not enough to 1 the accrued interest on 1 sum which amounts to ove more, making in all $100,-( the truth of the above - sta would refer any ratepap' County to John Bell .Gond Secretary of the Northei road company who resides ich. Again sir, although. sopher is a very wise ma 01$11e0Aceit, still, I am pr show that his statements ferekace to the dispositiou at 000/ borrowed for buil County gravel rdacls, are 1 and not true. My wort will be taken by surprise ed. when I tell him that the Town got of tJie S40 ' $2,568, Which W28 spent 1 ing the 1 -ridge hill, in this pality. I ask wa the ,abo equivalent for this corporat paid the highest County r Municipally in tile two to many years before and - above amount was borrow I am prepared to BlIONV ? of Boderich A. D. 1855, ved for County purposes as June minutes of that year sum of $6993,00, whereas ed Townships of Ilullett a for the same year, were as the sum of $324100 'showi ference of -$3752.Q0 which paid over and above both M. ities. This state of matter tied until the year ?1859 grasping Town of *aerie!) redress. The next matte t011eh Up011 is the eXpenditu 1Nlaitland Bridge. I He building and repairing bridge a.nd Bridge Hill , County the further sum o -this statement is also inco By -Law was passed in A. by the -United Counties to debentures the sum of $2 the erection of the Maitlan Now, Mr. Editor, I am pre show that the County of Br their full share of the abo Then again in 1858, a flirt] of $10.2.88.00 was put in mates for the same :pose share share of which the county also paid. Then for the cos construction of Haiti ibridge 1868, the amount was raise rect taxation, SO that not 011 was taken from the $400,0 rowed in 1857 for he bui repairs of said bridge. I that all the Town got out of vel road debentures was 825 the year 1869 the Town ofG paid to the County as inter sinking fund on . the above tures the sum of $3247.60, i689, more than wereceived ther out of the fnnd. Now will just see how the same stands with the N./Mao/Vie -Municipality; it got out above debentures the nice lit of $38,600 and paid forinte sinking fund. in 1859, the $3025.93, being $221.77 le this Town paid in. same yea only got $2568 as their For the $400,000. My !worthy tries to show that the Mu ties of Ashfield, Colborne Town of Goderich got co the SUM of $69,042, ivh;ch is $7586 more than their portion. Now Sir, I EMI p to, show that all these Mun goon: out of twheaa:oalivoeshinenation was $29,536 as shown. in the. minutes of 1860. I will he the question how he came to