nd Yet
So Far; Tramp, Tramp, Tramp; When I Come; Within this Sacred Dwelling.

=No. 6.= Alice Gray, Andreas Hofer, Eyes So Blue and Dreaming, Faded
Flowers, Listen to the Mocking Bird, Jamie's on the Stormy Sea, Men of
Harlech, Rockaway, She Wore a Wreath of Roses, Tenting on the Old Camp
Ground.

=No. 7.= Cousin Jedediah, Gentle Annie, Hark, I Hear an Angel Sing;
Irish Emigrants Lament, Touch the Harp Gently, Love's Golden Dream; The
Years Creep Slowly by, Lorena; O Give Me but My Arab Steed, The Star of
Glengary.

=No. 8.= Chimes of Zurich, Flow, Rio Verde; There's a Good Time Coming,
I'd Weep with Thee, Lone Starry Hours, Lovely Nancy, Johnny Schmoker,
Mermaid's Evening Song, Old Easy Chair by the Fire, The German
Fatherland.

Sold Everywhere. Price, 50 cents; Boards, 60 cents; Cloth, $1.00. Full
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Harper & Brothers, New York.

OPENING OF THE CIRCUS SEASON.

AN ACT "NOT DOWN ON THE BILLS."

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IT DIDN'T WORK.

It isn't always safe for a small boy to take his father's jokes and
games too seriously. This was shown very plainly at one time by the
experience of an Englishman and his son upon a railway journey which
they took together. While the little fellow was gazing out of the open
window his father slipped the hat off the boy's head in such a way as to
make his son believe that it had fallen out of the window. The boy was
very much upset by his supposed loss, when his father consoled him by
saying that he would "whistle it back." A little later he whistled, and
the hat reappeared. Not long after the little lad seized upon his
father's hat, and flinging it out of the window, shouted, "Now, papa,
whistle your hat back again!"

A DAINTY FOR ELEPHANTS.

If there is anything in the world that an elephant loves better than a
peanut it is an orange, and if any boy who reads this wishes, when he
goes to the circus, to give the massive creature an especial treat,
instead of paying five cents for a bag of peanuts to put in the
elephant's trunk, let him purchase for the same money one good-sized
orange, and present that to the small-eyed, flat-eared monster. A number
of years ago, in a book which was called _Leaves from the Life of a
Special Correspondent_, Mr. O'Shea, the author of the book, gave the
following description of