The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862: Devoted To Literature And National PolicyVarious
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862: Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Periodicals
The next day, the entire jobbing facilities of the _Times_ office were
brought into requisition, and toward evening a mammoth bill was posted
around the town, which read as follows:--
MONS. BELITZ'S
CELEBRATED AND MAGNIFICENT EXHIBITION,
THE GREAT TRAVELING HUMBURG!
The most wonderful entertainment, whether
CAININE, PRISTINE, OR QUININE,
ever brought before the astonished Public's visual organs!!!
* * * * *
The _avant courier_ of this monster troupe has the honor of
announcing to the ladies and gentlemen of Tyre, that Mons. BELITZ,
accompanied by his entire retinue of attachés and supes, Female
Dancers and Dogs, Operatic Vocalists and Vixens, Royal Musicians and
Monsters, Bengal Tigers and Time-servers, Magicians and Madmen,
Flying Birds, Swimming Fishes, Walking Cats and Dogs, Crawling
Reptiles, and various other extraordinary and impossible
arrangements, the like of which never before appeared in Bog county,
until the arrival of the present occasion, to wit:--
AT GRECIAN HALL, TYRE,
On Saturday Evening, December 22, 1859.
* * * * *
---> LOOK AT THE ARRAY OF TALENT! <---
* * * * *
MONS. BELITZ,
the celebrated Magician from Egypt, performer general to
THE GRAND FOO FOO,
and professor of the Black Art to all the crowned heads of the
Cannibal Islands and Ham Sandwichlands!!
MADEMOISELLE HELIOTROPE,
the charming Danseuse from all the city theatres, but most recently
from the Imperial _Deutscher Yolks Garten_, Liverpool, Ireland!
SIGNOR STRAWSTEKOWSKI,
the celebrated Demagogue and Snake eater, whose unrivaled feat with
a living _Gryllus_, whose fangs have never been extracted, fills
thousands with awe and delight!
YANKEE SHOCKWIG,
the mirth-splitting and side-provoking delineator of down-east horse
peculiarities. Must be appreciated to be seen.
HERR BALAMSASS,
the distinguished Vocalist from Italy, whose lower notes, as
recently discovered by the celebrated examination before the Council
of Trent, reach so far below the _epigastrium_ as to be utterly
inaudible to the most acute auricular organs!
BRUDDER GEORGE AND AUNTY CLAWSON,
the never-to-be-sufficiently-equaled delineators of Ethiopian
eccentricities, whose performances during the winter of 1869
delighted overflowing houses in the Cape Cod Lunatic Asylum for 4000
consecutive nights.
BENJAMIN BOLT, Esq.,
the justly-celebrated trumpeter from the splendid orchestral band
attached to Marnum's Buseum, New York city, for the past fifty
years!
FANTADIMO FANTODIMUS,
the graceful and efficient master of ceremonies, whose efforts have
been awarded by the entire available population of Blackwell's
Island, in a series of resolutions of the most pathetic description!
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