Continental Monthly, Vol. I. February, 1862, No. II. - Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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III.--HE MAKES A HIT IN TYRE.
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. * * * * * |
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