Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 13, 1916, Page 12

KING VICTOR EMMANUEL ‘has been found to.be an| RECEIVES Al i 4 : Dacking trea OO BALANDRA material for _yesterday, today in the of deputies upon of parliament- i g ‘was made known was officizlly announced senate and which both e shoveling unnecessary. BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS. *“The animals went in Seven by seven. Said the ant to the elephant: “Who are yer shovin’?”" The call of the circus, with its ever wonderful exhibits, ‘its ridiculous clowns, its thrilling performers, ani- mals and pretty equestriennes will be answered by Norwich today, for the tashions and the tastes of men change in almost all things but the love for the circus. There are those who pooh-pooh at the idea of going to the circus, saying that such things are for the “kids,” but even as they eay it they know in their hearts that they are bearing false winess to their own true sentiments. And they are also bearing false witness when they go for “the sake of the chil- dren,” and they know it, for the cir- cus has an alluring charm all its own that those who have once felt it never forget, while it is a perrennial delight for the young in heart, no ' matter whether thflr years be many or few. Circuses come and circuses go, and the average small boy (and most of his elders as well) for whom the cir- cus is popularly supposed to have been invented. feels that the last word in circus entertainment has been presented when the Barnum and Balley circus has had its turn. This circus has come on down from the days of our granddaddies and, like Tennyson's brook, seems destined to 30 on forever. It arrived in Norwich at an early hour this morning upon its own four special trains coming from Stamford, where performances were given yes- terday. The first train Dearing the preliminary essentials to the 4 circus encampment came at an hour when the average Jim and John, Mary and| Bess, were asleep upon their pillows, dreaming of a fairyland aglow wi lights, in which the crack of the ring- master's whip mingled with the roar of the wild beasts and its loud trumpetings of the elephants. In all its gay panoply of:snapping flags, broad expanses of canvas, sawdust and spangles the circus has erected its canvas city at the Fairgrounds. The elephants are here, the clowns, the gaudy chariots, tH® horses, ani- mals and all the other things that for the past week have stimulated ‘the small boy to a fervor of youthful en- thusiasm, and with the parade and performances of today the circus folk promise to over-top in magnitude, in splendor and general excellence any and all of its famous achieggments of the past. The first offering of the circus will be the street parade -this - morning, which is due to leave the show grounds at 10 o’clock and pass over the principal streets. . In this pa- geant which exhibits the resources of the circus _as possibly mnothing else could, the circus people put their best ‘foot forward. - It-will be a dis- play full of color and Interest and strings out for a matter of over two mile In a general way it will not bs uniike the cavalcades of previous years, only jt will have morc! ang o _sucl land fox-terriers oosevelt - on the ‘anti-thind-form basis ?—Philadel- Pl T, ! Always - Observes It. ‘The British" military week-end ‘was not without luck. - ‘Another general was ‘taken' prisoner by the Geérmans near Ypres.—New York World." |aadca to the parage equipment ana every bit of the wardrobe is new. More than five hundred horses ranging from the sturdy Clydes and Percherons to the cleaner-limbeq thoroughbreds will make of the moving column a huge horse fair—an interesting display in itself. The “big. top” or main tent, where the - performances will be given at 2 and 8 o'clock p. m. is a tremendous affair—in fact, the largest spread of canvas ever erected, In previous years this tent has been what the cir- cus folks term an “7 pole top,” mean- Ing that seven centre poles were re- quired to hold the spread of canvas. This year eight centre poles are used. The length of the tent is over 600 feet, with a width of 200 feet. Over 3Q,: 000 yards of canvas enter into its con- struction, and over. 16,000 people can be accommodated. It has become a bromidic statement to say.that the circus is all new. or very mnearly so, but it exactly hits the nail on the head as far as the Barnum and Bailey show is concerned, for never has it presented so much that is entirely new to American au- diences. ~ One reason for this is the Eurépean war which has made it Incumbent for the foregn artists to leave the other side and has enabled this circus to procure the very cream of the foreign arenic eéxperts. " At this year's Barnum and Bailey circus one may see parrots and ravens riding bi« cycles—huge, lumbering bears roller- skating and riding bicycles—monkeys doing equestrian stunts equal to their human <ol- leagues, trained rats, cats, rabbits and pigeons doing unheard of things, and much, - very much more that is un- usual, striking and out of the beaten path -of performances - usnally seen at the circus. Although to the blase individna: who contends” “there is nothing new under the sun,” it seems impossible to get anything really mew, that is just what the Barnum and Bailey manage- ment confidently announce they have succeeded in doing for - this ~ year's rogramme. ~ The trained animal acts are in great variety and of these, B Would Be Found Decidedly Lean if on: 'their: pu; ‘expedi ico they mould have found it decidedly lean and ww!d._!ha:: had by the National Geographic Society in| ‘Washington, says: “Since the days of the Montezumas, Mexico's staff of life has taken the form of the tortillas, made of Indian monkeys furnish the high spots. A large, brown bear on roller skates performs much better than most ku- mans, performing the “figure 8" with agility. A black bear’ rides a bi- cycle and guides it very carefully be- tween posts set upon the stage. Mme. Marcella causes a trained rayen to fiy through six rings of fire, ‘an a parrot rides a tiny bicycle upon a tight wire. 'ws and cockatoos jump the rope, dancé and perform other tricks which cause one to sit up and tale- notice.. Rats, pigeons, cats and rabbits work in unison and the °papaya Or meion zapote; 8TOWS on a tree and offen weighs as much as 20 pounds. It has character- istics which link it to the cantaloupe, the pumpkin and the watermelon, and descend by their queues from the very dome of the tent at the pace of about a mile a minute. g > There are - riders, Jug- glers ,tumblers, ae: cowboys and performers in all lines of athletic. effort and each and every one an acknowledged champlon, else they could not find a place upon the Bar- num and ‘Bailey programme. There will be class and distinction to every item upon the long from sitem to stern_there mediccre “offering. ~ There w. big Lunch of clowns and exhil always, will be found com- and varied. > won't be a ishable. . “The wveler who plucks fruit from the a® di dinamite and’ stows it away in his suitcase will be startled to hear a ioud explosion in a short time, as the product of the aptly named ‘dynamite tree detonates when- ever it is placed in-a warm spot. “The Tarahumare Indians, who are especially fond of fich, freq garize community fshing which last several days. On these oc- casions they find it impractical to de~ pend on their crude traps and thorn- pointed spears, so they make a fish poison by crushing the leaves of two varieties 0f the maguey plant. The leaves are thrown into a stream which has been dammed and the following morning the fich, some merely stupe- fied and o) ers nlready dead, are easily The poison, fortunately is chzracter to affect human 1 larvae, and water- ans for the cacao bean. The Montezvmas cailed the Dbeverage made from this bedin, which was at one 7. chocolatl, from choco (cocoa) and latl (water). An- Other valuable bean frem tropical Mexico is the vanilia, v.):ich grows on climbing orchid.” * R WORLD’S RE! BIRD POPULATION Held by Farm of Dr. Grosvenor Near Bethesda, Maryland. (Special to The Bulletin.) ‘Washington, D. C. June 12.—The ‘world's record for density of bird pop- ulation is held by a farm within ten miles of the national capital Bethesda, Maryland. It is owned by Mr. Gilber H. Grosvenor, the Director and Editor of the National Geographic Society. In 1913 Mr. Grosvenor bought a farm of onme hundred acres, half in forest and half in field, about four miles from the District of Columbia, moving here early in the spring. Being interested in the work of the Audubon - Societies, he determined to see what he and his family could do to get birds around the home. He had such success that Dr. H. W. Henshaw, Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey! of the Department of Agriculture, be-} came interested and delesated Dr. Wells W. Cooke to visit the Grosvenor farm. - Dr. Cocke found so many birds there that, he suggested .a census of those living o nan acre or two adjacent to the house, as.he though the count would establish a world’s record. Up to that time the record was held by a family at Chevy Chase, Maryland, who had attracted thirteen pairs of birds to half an acre. The . prospect of establishing a world’'s record wes so inviting to the Grosvenor family that they took a census of the nesting birds on an acre adjoining their house and barns, with the result ifvat they found ffty- nine pairs of birds with young or eggs in the nest on that acre, the highest number of land birds inhabiting one acre that has yet been reported to the Department of Agriculture or to any Audobon Society. A similar census was made of a second acre, and it was found that this acre had thirty-three pairs of nesting birds. In an article contributed to “Bird- Lore,” the bi-monthly organ of the Audobon Socleties of the United States, Mr. Grosvenor tells a fascinat- ing story of the birds which have come to. dwell with them at “Wild Acres,” as his farm is named. “Wild. Acres” is a typical Maryland farm, with an old-fashioned farmhouse surrounded by an apple and pear or- chard, with a vegetable garden, hedges and open fields. Surrounding the fields is a tract of fifty acres in woods, with a beautiful stream and several springs scattered around in both the fields and the woods. The bird census taken in the week programme and |’ near | Perhaps the most remarkable nest was that of a phoebe, which was built un- der the cornice of the piazza within reach- of my hand. We had a little school in:the meorning at' the house, and ten children were continnally run- ning up and .down the piazza-:hout- ing at the top of their voices, but the proebe went on building her nest, then hatched her eggs, and fed her young without fear, though she could see everyone and everyone could sce her. “i was alse surprised to find how friendly -birds, even of the same ‘spec- ies, can become. ' For instance, we had. fourteen ' pairs of ‘wrens on a single acre, some of the nests being not more than fifteen feet apart. -We' also had robing’ 'nests only twelve yards apart. The bluebirds, on the other hand, do not like each- other, and would not toleratc. anuther pair’ of bluebirds nearer than one hundred yards. “The first year we had no flickers, but there was a pair nesting in an old apple tree on our neighbors’ property. During the winter the tree was blown down, and our oldest son obtained per- mission to get it. He cutout the por- tion of the tree which' contained the nest, cleaned out (ke hole, and. then ung the nest in a dying cherry tree. e nest was not more than ten yards from the house, but was taken ppos- sessicn of in 1914 and again in 1915. “We had, in 1915, seventy-five pairs of martins in an area approximating ter: dcres, and expect ‘to have a great many more than this in.1916. . We had one pair of red-throated hawks nest- ing 'in -our apple orchard, and kept them for two years, but they develop- ed such a fondness for poultry, having frequently caught pear- ance of many young birds from the nests. & Z “If anyone wants excitment, I sug: uy -or borrow a . stuffed pit in out in not only our responsibility but fhey awaken the strongest sens€ of hospi- tality.” _ Naugatuck—George Sydney .An- drew, son of. Mr, and. Mrs. George An- drew of Fuirview avenue of this borough, was one -of 125 cadets grad- vated from ‘the United States Miliary Academy at West" Point' Monday*and one of the six New Efglanders in the graduating class this year. ~ He 1 the only graduate from Cpnnecticut. “Corns All Gonet ; Let’s-ALL ‘Kick!” Every Corn. Vanishes by Uling Won- derful, Simpie “Gets-It.” Never Fails. Applied in 2 Seconds. Isn’t it wonderful what a difference just a little “Gets-It” makes—on corns and calluses? It's always night somewhere*in the world, with many l “Whee! 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