The advertisement posted here reads as follows:
P.T. BARNUM'S
NEW AND
GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH IS COMING
ON THREE MONSTER SPECIAL TRAINS
OF SOLID STEEL CARS, AND WILL EXHIBIT AT
LEWISTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11th!!
$1,500,000 CASH CAPITAL INVESTED!
1100 Persons and 600 Horses and Ponies Employed by it.
A Century's Festival of Features in a Metropolis of Separate Tents.
Its Menagerie 100 per cent. the largest ever moved.
SIXTY CAGES OF RARE ANIMALS AND AMPHIBIA
Many of which singly cost more than a common Menagerie.
TOWERING LIVING GIRAFFES, HALF TON LIVING LIVING SEA LIONS,
AND
BARNUM'S $25,000 BEHEMOTH !!
THE ONLY LIVING HIPPOPOTAMUS IN AMERICA.
ALL OTHERS ADVERTISED BEING BASE FRAUDS.
THE MOST MEMORABLE OF MORTAL MARVELS,
CAPTAIN COSTENTENUS,
A Noble Greek Albanian, Tattooed from Head to
Foot, in China Tartary, as punishment for engaging
in rebellion against the King. Read what Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes and other leading Boston physicians
testify of him:
This person is remarkable as combining in one
exhibition a picture gallery, a menagerie of strange
animals, (in their portraiture) including one not un-
like the dodo, and a proof of how much suffering
man can inflict or a man can bear, the constitution
accommodating itself to conditions which might seem
incompatible with health and even life. It is
the most perfect specimen of genuine tattooing
which any of us have ever seen.
A VAST CENTINENIAL MUSEUM
Life-Sized Automatic Marvels and Mechanical Scenic Illusions, Oper-
ated by a Solid Silver Steam Engine.
A CENTENNIAL PORTRAIT GALLERY !!
$2,000 per day in Salaries to P.T. Barnum's Hippodramatic Heroes.
Smith, Nathans & Co.'s Great European Circus.
Lowande's Imperial Brazilian Circus,
And the Famous Company Carlos.
OVER 100 PEERLESS PRINCIPLE PERFORMERS.
A GLORIOUS, GRATUITOUS CENTENNIAL
DAILY FORTH OF JULY CELEBRATION
Inaugurated each morning about nine o'clock, by the brazen-throat National Salute of 13 Guns, when the
TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION !!
OF LIBERTY AND THE NATION
Will move in Majestic Splendor though the Principle Streets.
DURING EACH PERFORMANCE
A JUBILEE OF SONG AND SPLENDOR
In the Grand Central Pavilion. Splendid, Patriotic Historical Tableaux; National Anthems by an im-
mense chorus of trained voices, accompanied by salvos of cannon, placed outside the tents and fired by electricity. Each evening, as a brilliant finale, a
MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS
The following is a brief write up from the August 10, 1876, Lewiston Evening Journal in regards to the upcoming show:
Barnum's "greatest show on earth" will reach this city by a special train from Waterville at 4 A. M. Friday. At 9 o'clock there will be a parade through the principal streets. The procession is also pronounced "the biggest thing on earth"-and as it is fathered by Barnum himself, it will unquestionably be all that it has been advertised to be. The Bangor papers say nothing equaling it was ever seen in that city. the combined menagerie and circus are meeting with immense success. Under the big tent 8000 to 9000 people may be seated and it is always crowded, save when the weather is stormy. There will be a great crowd in the city tomorrow to welcome Barnum's show, without doubt. Two entertainments will be given, morning and evening. There will probably be fifteen thousand visitors to the show in this city. People will pour into town to-morrow from all directions, as to a 4th of July celebration; for the people always know the Barnum does what he advertises. The show will exhibit at Dover, N.H., on Saturday. Barnum himself will not be able to be here on Friday, but he has sent Dan. B. Hopkins ahead, to assist in making people perfectly happy.
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