eland!

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!

* * * * *

Owing to future engagements, the stay of this troupe in Tyre will be
POSITIVELY FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, when the Programme will be specified
in small bills of the evening.

Admittance, 25 cents. Doors open at 6; Master of Ceremonies makes
his bow at 7.

PROF. BROWN D. GREEN, AGENT.

Against the advice of the editor of the Times, I dispatched an agent
over to Sidon, with a supply of blanked bills from the same form, with
instructions to arrange for a similar 'sell' on the following Monday
evening in that charming village.

I was sufficiently busy during the interval that lay between this and
Saturday evening in rehearsing my part for the entertainment thus
advertised. I was not entirely free from doubts of the success of a
'take-in' so palpable and ridiculous, and even if a house-full of
numbsculls _should_ gather, I deemed the experiment a dangerous one for
me; but my editorial friend took the risk, remarking that he had
calculated his chances, and knew what he was about. Nevertheless, it
was not without some trepidation that I entered Grecian Hall