Word: barnumism
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...reported that Barnum has made an offer to Oscar Wilde for the latter to sit on top of Jumbo and ride in the street processions. If, instead of Wilde sitting on the elephant, Jumbo were to sit on Wilde, the result would be more satisfactory to the people, and it wouldn't hurt Jumbo much. - [Texas Siftings...
...have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces, - but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum? For how can one little Tiger, however fierce and frantic he be, make a menagerie all by himself? Can a feather go off in a corner and flock alone by itself? But he is a strong Tiger and very, very fierce, and his claws are sharp, and they make very...
...injunction has been granted restraining the London Zoological Society from selling Barnum the big elephant...
...baby elephant has been born to the elephant Queen of Barnum's circus, at Bridgeport, Conn...
...heard of that bitin' lamb some of them farmers 'round New Haven 's got. They say he's a teaser; bite right thro' a man's coat and think nothin' 't all of it. Barnum's trying to git him, and if his circus comes our way, I'm goin' to see that ere lamb or bust. Here comes that cussed slow clerk...