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¥ { 4 ] — THE DAJLY BEE--OMAPA WEDNESDAY APRIL 11 THE HUMAN TUMBLER. How tho Oircus COraze Drives Boys Into the Profession. | CERe Kiuseit uplike a bail and goes | From the tonten 5o vom m:"l-‘::::fler i —_—— ;veL:é ol'm. o:r; l"h::" hhe tarns [ The Hotoury, tne chief palace of o is body in such fashion that he aligh's | the Austrian sovereigns, has been the a m";’;fl;mm‘g;‘i{_m The Inner Becrets of the Ring with his face toward the springboard |scene of an ewlellu‘lui ceremony or and the Mysteries ot Somer In a pirouette he twists himself twioo [ act of aevotion which is a curlous relio Kbl o savotlon moveh o curlousrolis | ynoly Bregch Loading Shot Guns, from seulte Explaned by an (SISOl MINAIENETL) 1 reing i saage somsred e o | Double Breech Loading Shot Guns, from :155 o '.1785 faot connected with your professioni” | immemerial on Mauuday Thoraday Muszle Luadlng Shot Guns, me' 86 to $26.0 * i 0 ‘‘Yes; there are more religious peo | the ceremony of *‘washiig the foet of the most difficult. In performing it | A KING BATHING HIS PEABANTS’ the tambler projects hin body at full FEBT. length lato the atr like a diver, and - - does not tarn till almost over the [AD Annual Osremony in Austria— Ta the second he leans King snd Queen Humblea Be- fore the Poor. REY .3 thorongh Lriat of th er A lorou| TRON TONIO, I take pleasure g n ST b mad i s ssing un. rutritive and eplerae bropartinn v ik T ple among the tamblers than In any | the poor” wad thia moraiug perlormed Fishing Tackel, Base Balls and all kinds of Fancy Goods. TARPAZID BY TEE DR, HARTER MEDICINE OO, 013 ¥, KA £7., A7, ‘‘More people go Into tambling than ::nl;"h:;‘:l’ M pres L ) ;.n‘::r:u-ls:n:: l;‘:’;‘;‘;h;:"':’;;'. Full Stock of Show Cases Always on hand, into any other line of clrcus business,” the custom preyailed at many otaer o0 of Baabm s o s et May 16, 1880, to fiad » parallel would be 1mpossible, vaulted over five elephants, and was| GENTLEMEN—Having boon a suffer. | eXc0pt at the vatican and tae palace of braehing the sawdust from hia knees, | f for & long time from nervous pros. | the Kivg of Spatn. ‘ FIXordinasy tambles gere $38 & WeeK tratlon and general debility, I was The proceedings openedat 9 o'clock, &8 SXLARSHILSAFy 086, B30; A I6DAE advised to try Hop Bitters T have when tweive old meun, of whom the who 1s able to turn s double, back | taken one bottle, and 1 have been|oldest s {n his ninety-thicd year and R ‘ iral cork 1t e r f rapldly getting better ever sluce, and [the youngest elghty-seveu, and twelve s 0 BAC N IS p (D, :f.;;.:‘f: ':::’:hep ,';?ui ‘:::i 3:; Ithluz {t the best medlolne I ever|old women, the oldest ninety six aud N?\N M\ CQ_ 1 | N £8 elephant In mld alr, standiug on a[used. Iam now gaivivg strength and the youngest ninety, dressed, as QW Sl = T e KD . i X h | appetite, which was all gone, and I|usual, in the old German cosiume, A e T ) A tal, may command 870 a week, whloh | DB sapale Bt I tFLeA. sons Bit.| Prosehted to. ihem by the emperok Iwported and Key West Cigars a large line of i) ters. Iam now well, able to go about | aud empress, entered the court cuapel, | Meerschaum and Wood Pipes and ev.rything re “‘How does one learn the businest?’ [ and do my own work. Before taking in order to reccive the sacrament, and mred in a flrsn 0]&8! CIK&P. Toba,cco and. Notion ) o it, I letel. tod wore then brought into the hall of . ay L el you, how T learned it T & WA8 OQr R S MARY STUART, | coremonies at the Hofourg, Ou ench|Btore, ~Cigars from $15 per 1.000 pwards Send y experfeuce, in part, is that of . & ! or Price List and S8amples A ) = o - S\ ide of tho hall was & table many. When I was a green country L) 2 boy I dropped corn for six cents a day ;‘;}‘e tt’;"’l:’:e :l‘:i"r:::en "l::d ;.’lll‘: and sold wild blackberries for three [ wno Gives Away Some or the Alleged < _——m— for the old e cents a quart to get money to go to a Secrets ot the Show Business, ::lh e:“:;;,:..e (‘.)f v‘.’:.',x,‘,:“ .“dhafi,::; DEWE Y & STONE g among them showed by their behavior '] oircus with, I looked forward to the daytimes and droamed of it nights. 1| *I am ® reformed fakir,” said a) ‘et they had taken put fu the cere. show for four monthe; talked about it | Cleveland Leade han once With the ap- | ° ) g walked five miles Into town to see the | sleek-locking young a8 ho deow | TODY moret P % circus, and seven miles out of town to | the repmurgovor Into a corner, ‘“‘and r:"'"“ uf m:“""“"‘.;" "1}‘ ) meetit. I went into the side show. | I s'pose It won't kill me if I give away ;c""mi"‘l‘-ly g-bn- 0 ,noA i i Lsaw tho ansconds, tho bearded | some of the seorets of the business. | 7o ™a4 IUoweC by w1 o Are HET - woman, and the educated hog, which | Do you know, sir, that the smallest p"&":' i.‘ iy .el!lw séh:" I‘“”;I‘l could spell backwards and forwards [show on the road has to carry eigh- 'A“ h’d” hlllp' d“ low y all tl 3 and was immensely better in figures | teen thieves along? Yes, air! and the h"’ 1;0 bt ": :"‘“" “‘-l'“"“ than I was, I went into the cirous. | bigger the show the more numerous :,lao women at thelr respective ta. Suchriding! I was delirions with joy. | the workers, I know of one Ltig show ';Eh dlpl " When the trick mule came out I “got | last season that had sixty men at work TR Pl el on hiaback, just as the regulation |and recelved 88,000 a week in privi- [ fou®s It sitendance, “‘k‘ ke drunken man belonging to the olrcus [legee, Of course the propriotors of l;’" i";'“;."' %’"‘;‘TY " 'l‘l"""- the made a broad swathe through the |the show disolaim sll relationship with | )¢ t2t rench an "A'“‘- h-mb'l‘ i crowd at the front door and fell over | the fakirs, bat every Monday morning |y 1% Ot SPPARR: I‘l o minls: against the ropes. I clang to the mule | the poor thieves have to come down d‘:"lwaim p“:"“ DLLIAL “" "““h" like grlm death. He buoked with me, | with the dust. Itis wonderful how | 8% bl Tal L Ao ors, the 5 He backed me againat the center pole. | many privileges there are with a big °h‘"“:;"h‘ HLH L) ) l"‘"'“;‘ and Ho rolled over and over In the ring |show, aside from the legitimate. One ['1° g'l“;:“ "’!l:"‘"’:""“' ves o tl‘;e and wiped up most of the sawdust with | maa contracts to work the big jolat, ‘;“‘7' o “:i les being "elm:" N ’ me. The clown lifted me off. When [and paye from 8260 to $1,000 a week | {2% SPeror end empross knelt down JOBBER OF I came to my senses the clown was | for the privilege. ‘:’, 0! l:' o d" \ ;;’ P‘;"P o, ‘";l bending over me. I was in the dress- [ ‘‘Don’t know what & blg jolnt fs?| | h‘ad.u‘:m{.nc i s ey Ero Rt W _A_ I I ) P éé P E : B iog room just as I am now.” Why, it s where a fat guy drops his (" l:l kBt h“rdsl: moly :"’ = | ‘*‘Hesaplucky chap," boodle on & represent. Ycu never(\rt® EUA:;B'(‘;:' bt Y“n:‘ ot AND intights. A half dozen other tights | hear about it unless he makes a ) ick, “‘l"'h F » l" de:h of h:l’: and spagles sald I was s plucky fel- [ and as the chances are he is a deacon | PSPI® 18C been wiped tho archdukes WINDOW SHADES [bnmitepein e e Bk S At te i seating et i i w1 rangements to go to sea with the cap. EASTERN PRIGES DUPLIGATED. his loss in silence. The big joint ia ::l"d“l 'kh";”“:m""fill’y hu;gglng ";‘“‘d tain of a canal boat. I broke my ro- [only worked for blg money, a greedy | U1® ReCk Of ofch of the @ld peop's a mantle engagement with the captain, | lawyer, or whoever Is spotted, s in. | PUrSe with thirty sllver florlus, - The =] P BN and when the circus left town 1 went : o 12 FARN 3 - - OMAH awsy, covered with plasters, in the | by two finely dressed, moral looking f“" "”d'“;"””"“‘“* box of provia- b % band wagon. men, whom he has met on the street | 'O1® #14 ¥ s 5 - “The man sald he would take me|while watching the procersion. As is the regular time to serve at the|talking about the weathir, or|institutiovs in this country is th present day. Sometimes circuses take | the crope, or something, No 3 is given | risge Fund aud Mutual Trust Asu ci apprentices. Sometimes performers|the signyl, and he ccmes up ani [0t Cedar Rapids, Liwa, They are or It1s universally admitted to be the Finest Equipped Railroad in the World for all Classes of Travel IT. J. POTTER, 3d Vice-Pres't and Gen'l Manager PERCEVAL LOWELL, Gen Pass. Ag't, Chicago Solid Trains of man Palace S| A RHFORMED "FAKIR" Colorado. S 7 g ‘ Tt change of cars and from & L] g 3 4 H i < g E St. Jo- ka. Only through line be Cars, with Re. Through cars Chicago, & Denver. napolis & Coun connections made in (Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.) 7% i ol 0, Linc ison & Tol COINC EAST AND WEST. ezant Day Coaches, Parlor Cars, with Reclin “BURLINGTON HOUTE" Money for the Unmarriod. duoed 'to go over o the how grou: g | 14 folka wara then sent home In cabs, as an apprentice for four years. This | they sidle around the sideshow tent| Ope of the most rolid and substs tuko them. The conditions are the | bogs the strangere(i) to como In and | ed uuder tho laws of Towa, and horr of: same, Olrcus actors invariably begin | see hls line of curiosities—nocharge-— t o "c,, o Ce |,.'} tu learn thelr art when children, It|merely wante to advertise his show, rson should is ueelees for any one to try to become g 7 a performer after he has grownup, I o never knew such a one to succeed. ‘The Oldest ‘Wholesals and My teacher and patron gave me my 2 board and clothes, some spendiug Retail JEWELRYHOUSE [WIUSIC HOUSE [5ivs. ncs o soibwien s had become a little proficient drew my ote., and the vietim goesin, He runs 1 i intion, against a ‘brace.’ His new acqualnt #plendid investment, as safo as ancos tell him how to win. 1f he ha | fOVorum c|||..m|. 2(uu uuntjunb s well down, and if he hasn't he goea to the | members have beon paid off, receiving ver B gt bank and gets it, No. 5 accompanylog | 800 per oent on their investment. Writo in Ostialia. VIsitors can here A ABLL : lop : bim. 01 ours, the poor s 'ces fox el flly doaling the pla which OROCHARD & BEAN, J. B FRENCH & CO, . \! ith his own. rac- | the show' be! ik, These | 0 e gt . : 3 CGleneral Agents for the :?‘1:‘? I;O::“'l dsy.. OLonger grlg- fat guys aro :’ffkflzcl?:;:“n“’ §2 'U(:" :::‘:n‘:‘ i Sk dbleetion 'l;g-‘;;.nu 0 A R P E T S ”G R 0 C E R I E S find all novelties in SIL- Finest and Best Pi |toe Is hrtful. T firet loarnod to-bal-| 84 500, socording to the amount of — VER WARE. CLOGKS, nest an 881 '1anos an Some of tne B g Go.d Nuggets. et 0 fsct ance myself on my hands; then to \u'm oreait they h?»}o lnhthu bhnnk, and yon e i o, = e Tgans manufscturec, » back somersault; it being an easier | can bet your life that the big joirt |SieraCounty, Cal, Tribune jck 5t i someranult than a front one. Thenin | has it all sized up bofore the meat is| On the 18th of August, 1860, a T. SINEHOILID Rich and ®iylish Jewelry, ur prices are as Low as | fomeyint i 1p-aps, hand aprings, | tackled " ] » i large piece of gold was taken from the the Latest, Most Artistic, any MeiternManufaoturer |forward somersanlts, rows of forward | 1t the gilly makes a kiok then the | Munumental Qaartz mine, Slerra MAXUERUEERNS O and Qhoicest Bolsctions in| S0\l ¥ ¥ e, bk tomersals 1o sqons o vk & et coe| e i v, 106 ce| CA) VANIZED IRON CORNICES Pianos and O g&~s8B0ld | fip.fiaps and twister combined. This|joint. It is his business 1f he ses n |at from $21,000 to $30,000 The A . y PRECIOUS STONES and |for cash or installmeut: at|fest bslongs to cross tumbling, the |kick made to ‘equare’ the authorities, sold to H B Wondward, Window Caps, Finials, 8kylights, &c. Bottom Pr ces. 4 most diffionlt kind, Not every per-|and then if the victim attempts to for §21,636 62. A THIRTEENTH STREET, s o - OMABA, NEB all descripuions of FINE A SPLENDID % ok of {’ormgd:‘u'z. A filp flap 18 t::ncd . o (li{nz be’nllann (wn lukz’nm humFl'hzfl ———— e N £l CK 0! throwing yourself on your hands | cee n some o8 we were In the | Relnbow Qaariz mine, pp's Flal WATCHES at as Low Pri- Bteinway Chickering, oz the vorygnp,oz your feet !uu & mo- | rquare would goputonnd o the moru- [in 1881 1t wan taken from s depth X tibl ith ) ) =! | ment before and then springing to an |ing and square the town, that he | of 200 feet. Later it was shipped te W F STOETZEL ces as 18 compatible With|Knabe, Vose & 800’8 Pi |apeight position. To throw yourselt [ would ‘fix’ the mayor, polico and jas- | London and worked there, It ylelded . . bondrable dealers. Call|anos, and oth. r akes, |on your hands a yard or so from where | tioos, and then the boyscould work all | $22,000. Xu 1865 a nuggot was found ] | you stand Is a ‘lob-gob.’ Only ama- |day aud night, and if" any one threat. |at French Ravine that welghed 522 and see our Blegant New| Also Clough & War en|loaradott. A profossional can turn | ened they woald laogh at him. T ro. |ouncss, and was worth $10,000. It Sells the Best contained considerable quartz, which Stors, Tower Bulld.mg Sterling ImpFrial, £mith | twenty-four flip flaps in succession on | member in an Indiana town the square Sors, 5 X ican ’ a space six inches square. had fixed the place, and the very first | Is not calcalated in its weight. In corner 11th and Farnham Ame". or’an" &c. Do “Ittook me two ;anu to learn the |msn roped in was the high .h?rlflov 1851, at French Ravine, a nugget was not fail ‘0 see us before |routine of tumbiivg and five years to | the county. The lads got $6,000 off | found which weighed 426 ounces, and Btreets purchasing.‘ become proficient. I never lost prac- | him and he kicked. By p-flng back | was valued at §8,000. A nugget ls B tice for a single day. In winter I per- | 1,200 they got it settled. know a | reported to have been found at Minne- MAX M EYER & BRO.' formed my feats every afterncon in|man who had the big joint with a|eota valued at &5 000. In 1850 & plece In the City' MANUFAGTURERS OF SHOW GASES, [wiiiias e H ARDWARE 3 “In it hard to tarn a summersault | As soon as the season wasover he went | Ravine which contained 263 ounces of A Large 8tock always on Hand. TIN W A XIE, over five elephants.” to Chicazo and bought ont a clothing | gold, worth §4,803 At Smith's Flat, 510 South Tenth Street. sy have anybody arrested he cannot suc- ‘It requires groat nerve and entire | store. He says he'll never go on the |in 1866, a picce of gold was taken self confidence. If a man loses his|road azain, but then we all say that |from a claim which was worth 82 716, nelf-confidence he will nover doit.| ‘‘Well, there's the ‘little joint,’ the |and welghed 146 ounces. At Smith's L i T ; - — Sometimes ':lh"bowameh" do not | ‘drop e;;c-,l’ the ‘go-out,’ and dozens of Flnlt.h in ll?:fi , B nnggetdwum:c;;d strike the spring board right ; some- | other privileges for thieving In a smal. | #elghing 0 cunoes and wo! ) HAS THE SEST STO0K IN OMAHA AND MAKES THE LOWEST PBIOES times because we do not take the right | er way, and the show gets a big share | 606 At Little (irlzzly Digglngs, in step. I never knew any accident toa [ of the plunder. The reason they rent 39, » nugget worth $2,000 was tumbler more serfous than a epraln or | these privileges Is this: These thieves | fouad. A nugeet welghing 94 ounces the breaking of his arm. I have no- | would go right along anyway and the d at §1 770 was found at the ticed that short men make better ar- | proprietors might as well have a bena- pe claim four miles below the mouu- | = tiata than tall ones, and that alertns fit, You havo scon th man who wolls | taln At Frouch Rarlue, in GEORGE H EIMRO Dm : H H is a greater requisite than strength. | tickets awsy from the wacon? Well, | 1860, a nugget was fonud worth hav_en n(:;”“:)eeel:r fienslts:?‘% ':‘ooslt‘ rcgtl’?\rel. ‘ma" :ZI::: :‘?e l:u}qu:di)lvlvrlto fl‘l.hlpglng that lal’lo‘:v’p-ya fifty nenudn piece ‘;ur Zf;’in:d wrlzl:lng 93 ounces, Anhlni:hd ¥ » ete e the least skilful tumbler al- | every ticket he's got, and he sells| Flat in 1861, & npogget was foun: 1 g 8 p ways comes first, a less skilful second, | them for just the ssme, and tmldu: which welghed 80 ounces and was val- The Lefldlng ]‘Bth Street and 80 on; the best tumbler comes | pays from $15 to a week for the|ued at §1 5609 From 1854 to 1862 12 last.” privelege of doingit. How does he | gold nuggets, ranglog from 30 to 147 “‘Is it possible for a cross-eyed man | make any money? In makingc ounces were taken from the Live Yan- . to turn a summersault over five ele- | The man who sells tickets for ¢h kee claim at Forest City. From 1856 L J . . . phanta? show works in thesame way. Lots of | to 1862 a number of gold nuggets, va- 'sel Is at Bottom Prlces ey ‘‘Emphatically, no."” ‘batchers’ 'k without ! f 30 to 100 , were N In the _weSt' An add'honal StOl‘Y has beGI'l “AnP:ny pert &rmopntqinz to learn whte:::. '(‘;'ma n‘x’nn ;-“,-‘l:z:.: .165 ;Zu':fi in ‘:lTa Oregon nlnlu?nn:l“l"urut —————— built and the five floors all connected to turn the tripple summersault}” | to 8200 per week for the privilege of | City. A specimen worth 85,000 was | Pragh Lettuce, Fresh Radishes, with two “Yes, Ithas already been done, | Working the ‘go out’-—picking pckets | taken from the Orlental Gold Ga o but never satisfactorlly, Itis lmpos. | I0 the jam sfier the show.” quartz mine. Pie Plant, Green Peas, slble to get command of the third “Bat I thought the large shows car- " C“Cumbel'fl y rled detectives along!" A Cough, Cold or Sore Throat [] HYDRAULIC ELEVATORS, s gt R ",‘2’;‘,&".‘:',1’52‘;" “Ha, ba, ha-awi® 8o they do, and |should not be neglected. Browx's Baox: Oranges, Bananas, Lemons, Apples. One Exclusively for the use of Passengers, These immense ware- [but it is never sure. /Kn the third :;l;ufi.:'::}f;:'fi:::ufil Id;fl“:;.‘;'::’:: wil| ;l;l;ll‘i:::mi:n‘:,‘nfi':l‘."l“l’:z;2..ce:ft.: LANDRETH'S GAHnE" & FIELD SEEDS_ rooms--three stores, are 66 teet wide--are filled with the Grand=-|somersault one whirls around three ¥ A 'y times as fast as he does in the first |0 4o Is to keep outside thieves from :fito display of all kinds of Houschold and Office Furniture eve) |mes r fos oxly by chanse thai h | vorkirg on the grouad. If an out- o Py may strike on his feet or ki his | 8lder is detected he is handed over to All are invited to oall, take the Elevator on the first floos |faer whon ho doas Cteica? *Tn’ s |the police, The privileze men are nover detected. I was a dotective part and go throngh the building and inspeot the stock. double somersault you go round twlce of laat seaton, and the big showa are AS. SHIVERICK, AL e M T s e | S AT e U.P.CROCERY. GEO. HEIMROD, 613 North Sixteenth Street. LOUIS BRADFORD, DEALER IN LUMBER, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS firat."” 208, 1208 and 1210 Farnam Street, Om=ha, Jaraely, au 1t shuts up the eyo of the o b S, St Mol ersault from s wman’s hand, A few they ought to be knocked down and WHOLXIALK AND RETAIL DEALEB IN sists in the grace with which we do |#0mebody else may do it hereafter.” *‘In the art of tamblingdevelopl 4 ! maseen. But I've quit the business years sgo only one somersavlt was ) their money taken from them, bat our feats, The style of the tumbler| ‘‘Whatisthe roason eo many ap. S by e the big and litle joint?” — — “We now turn a double back som J A WAKEFIELD I do think that some men are so greeu . o ’ turned in this way. Half our art con- slonals. No : 3 o tamblers do the same | ‘‘Because everything Is do . Lath Shingiet;Rleksts I TR T Shingles, Lath, &c. SASi!, l)udfiS.jl.lN\iilifllHGS, I-I“E, CEMEX m:in:;o:h;;}.::"::: u:. Th., -n;lh .pog;ma In, LO PRICES AND GOOD'GRADES. Eadl ro. ¢ orent of slp aas AFHTATE AGENS POR MILWAUKEK CKMENT COMPANY -omnr':-ul:s L of; oxle Br:x:l'u ;l':‘;.':u D:u:::lth:: l? Oall and @et My Prices Eefors Buying Blsewhere. Near Union Pacific DODG‘. 5 -OMAHANB ‘“We have four. Thoy are called | to make a dressing; besides thie, it ls divers, tucks, twisters and plrouettes. YARDS COR. NINTH AND DOUGLAS, ALSO 7iH AND DOUGLAS ‘The firet ls, excepting the plrouette, made of better materials thau you can buy st the stores. Kverybody likes it. 1

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