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PROF. SWEENEY AND HIS FAMOUS COWBOY BAND.

"A MERITORIOUS MUSICAL FEATURE." –London Times

Not the least interesting and popular adjunct of the Wild West entertainment is the music furnished by the famous Cow-boy Band. This band has always taken a prominent place with the organization, and has received the highest praise from educated musicians as well as the public in all parts of the world. It consists of thirty-six cow-boy musicians, each of whom would be considered a solist on his own instrument, and when combined and playing otgether under the capable direction of Mr. William Sweeney, their leader, they make music tht compels the admiration of the masses. They give a concert before each performance, and incidental music that is a source of pleasure to all who hear it, and are daily greeted with rounds of applause. This band has been the recipient of commendations from nearly all the musical connoisseurs and leaders and members of the finest bands in Europe, Lieut. Dan Godfrey, the leader of the famous Grenadler Guards Band, having presented Mr. Sweeney, after six months' engagement in the gardens connected with the Wild West in London, with a solid gold cornet, at the same time saying that the thirty-six members of the Cow-boy Band would produce more good music than any band he had ever heard with even double the number of musicians. For thirty minutes prior to the entertainment this band will give selections of both classical and popular music.

SOUTH AMERICAN GAUCHOS AT THE "WILD WEST."

The latest addition to BUFFALO BILL's "Wild West" makes the sixth delegation to the "Congress of the Rough Riders of the World," which MESSRS. CODY and SALSBURY have organized in order to present the different schools of horsemanship to the world.

Having seen the performances of the Cow-boy, the Indian, the Vaquero, and, lastly, of the Cossacks of the Caucasian line, our appetites are considerably whetted at the prospect of seeing how the wild life on the South American pampas contrasts with theirs.

To the student of human progress, of racial peculiarities, of national characteristics, the Gauchos are a subject of investigation as remarkable as anything modern history has to show