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Died. Jewell, 97, elephant, for 40 years (1838-78) a Barnum & Bailey trouper until his attacks of "temperament" made touring dangerous; by his keeper's shot, paralysis of the trunk having developed; at the Central Park Zoo, Manhattan...
...cross between St. George and Don Quixote"-one might add P. Y. Barnum to Author Long's analysis, and so justify Asquith in diagnosing Bryan as "a peculiar product of your country." If by peculiar he meant curious, there are those in this country who would agree; if, which is more likely, he meant typical, there are those who would cavil. Not so Author Long, who writes a sympathetic though by no means fanatic account of the loves and hates, works and troubles, of the peculiar product...
TAMMANY HALL-M. R. Werner-Doubleday-Doran ($5). A biographer of eccentricians (Barnum, Brigham Young), Freedom, suffrage, peace. Mr. Werner reproduces all the war-paint and peacetime paint, all the cardinal sins and probable virtues of a famed phenomenon, in a manner calculated to sell books...
...circuses know better than to tease the animals or to ask the employes intimate questions. To do otherwise would precipitate quarrels in the higgledy-piggledy family that a circus is. Therefore, when the 1,800 employes of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey show received their pay in Montreal one day last week and entrained soon after for Ogdensburg, N. Y., the circus officials made no comment about the strange mounds that appeared in the bunks, strange piles in animal cages, strange packages stuffed into corners and tied under cars, all over the four-section caravan. They left the commenting...
Married. Mrs. Helen L. Howerton, mother of Major Mite, 18-year-old Ringling-Barnum midget; to Robert H. Crawford, Ringling-Barnum ticket-taker; in Boston...