Forepaugh’s ‘zoological and equestrian aggregation,’ as the show is called, combines a circus with a menagerie, and possesses no fewer than three elephants and as many camels. Adam Forepaugh is the proprietor of this show, which must not be confounded with Gardner and Forepaugh’s circus and menagerie, which was organized in 1870 by the amalgamation of Gardner and Kenyon’s menagerie with James Robinson’s circus. Kenyon retired from the former in 1869, and John Forepaugh, brother of Adam, took his place. The two elephants and other animals forming the zoological collection belong, however, to Adam Forepaugh, from whom they are hired on a per centage arrangement. Madlle Virginie, who appeared at the Holborn Amphitheatre a few years ago, has since been travelling with Adam Forepaugh; while Gardner and Forepaugh’s circus has included in its company J. M. Kelly, brother of George Kelly, the champion vaulter, whose double somersaults over a dozen horses will long linger in the memory of those who witnessed the feat in the same arena. Joel Warner, who was formerly Adam Forepaugh’s advertiser, started a circus and menagerie on his own account in 1871. ‘He said,’ writes the gentleman who relates the story of the origin of Barnum’s show, ‘that he was “bound to have some money, or die;” and he added that he would “fifty per cent. rather have the money than die.” Well, he started out, and met with but poor encouragement; still his indomitable energy kept him above-water until he got into Indiana, when he found, to his utter consternation, that he was to meet with strong opposition. “Well,” he said, “there’s just one way to get out of this,” and Warner quietly disappeared. Two or three days after a travel-worn stranger stepped into the counting-room of Russell, Morgan, & Co.’s great printing house, in Cincinnati, and, sitting himself down in a chair, exclaimed:—“Well, here I am, and here I’ll stay.” It was Warner, and the way that man disturbed the placid bosom of quart-bottles of ink was a warning to writists. For two weeks he sat at a desk running off “proof” from his pen, while the printers ran it off from the press, and when he got through, J. E. Warner & Co.’s Menagerie and Circus was among the best advertised shows in America. He courted the muses too, and fair poetry shed her light upon Warner’s wearied brain, while she tipped his fingers with:— “One summer’s eve, amid the bowers Of Grand river’s peaceful stream, Sleeping ’mong the breathing flowers, Joel Warner had a dream: Argosies came richly freighted, Birds and beasts, from every land, At his calling came and waited, Till he raised his magic hand.”