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ORIENTAL WONDERS.

PHENOMENAL PERFORMANCES BY FAMOUS ARABIAN EQUESTRIANS AND ATHLETES.

There are some things in which the Wild East doesn't have to take off its turban to the Wild West, and the renowned troupe of Riffian Arabs right from the scorching sands--with Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World will prove it. Their head to head balancing is a prodigy of equilibristic art, strength and endurance. The nimblest pair of legs could scarce keep abreast of their hand-spring evolutions clear across the great arena. They walk on their hands as though brought up to that kind of locomotion exclusively. They launch themselves in high and hazardous spreads and side-long somersaults over bayonets and

A BAND OF BEDOUIN ARAB ATHLETES.

sword-blades. They tumble as though tossed in the arms of an invisible tornado, and they climb atop one another with their balance and agility of monkeys, until nine of them form a high pyramid, of which one herculean son of the Prophet is the sole base. Meanwhile, and in fact all the while, the sage Dervish of the tribe is making a human tee-to-tum of his respected self, and rotating more rapidly than the double screws of an Atlantic liner. So rapidly and continously does he whirl around with extended arms, that unless he is iron hooped, it is a wonder that he does not burst all to pieces and strew the Oriental scene with santified fragments.

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THE BUCKING BRONCO.

A PRODUCT OF NATURE, NOT OF EDUCATION.

Did you ever see a bucking circus horse? Emphatically no! Why not? Simply because if he were a bucker he would not only be utterly useless, but positively dangerous in the ring. The horse is naturally an exceedingly timid and suspicious animal, and in breaking him even to harness and saddle use, the trainer must keep these traits constantly in mind. Consider the limited repertory of even the best trained circus horse of any school. He can be taught to do some surprising and pleasing tricks, but there is to him a danger line beyond which neither cajolery nor force can induce him to go. He can no more be taught to "buck" than can a kangaroo to play on a key bugle. No animal can be taught to injure or kill itself, and least of all the horse; the instinct of self-preservation forbids, and no trainer can overcome that power. It would be equally preposterous to assume that any amount of compensation could induce any man in the possession of his senses to train an animal espressly to injure him. There is not a day in the season but that from one to half a dozen cowboys are laid up in hospital as a result of their battles royal with the bucking broncos, while every one of them daily receives maulings, shake-ups and bruises that would invalid men of less rugged physique and Spartan endurance.

Like every other unique frontier, national and international feature with Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the bucking broncos are genuine, from start to finish. They are natural, irreclaimable fighter, and their savage and reckless efforts to throw their riders cannot be corrected. They may be temporarily conquered after a prolonged and often dangerous struggle, requiring extraordinary agility, skill and courage on the part of their riders, but wuth every effort to mount comes a renewal of the contest between stubbornness and instinct on the other side and brains and nerve on the other, and in it the nobler

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ORIENTAL WONDERS.

PHENOMENAL PERFORMANCES BY FAMOUS ARABIAN EQUESTRIANS AND ATHLETES.

There are some things in which the Wild East doesn't have to take off its turban to the Wild West, and the renowned troupe of Riffian Arabs right from the scorching sands--with Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World will prove it. Their head to head balancing is a prodigy of equilibristic art, strength and endurance. The nimblest pair of legs could scarce keep abreast of their hand-spring evolutions clear across the great arena. They walk on their hands as though brought up to that kind of locomotion exclusively. They launch themselves in high and hazardous spreads and side-long somersaults over bayonets and

A BAND OF BEDOUIN ARAB ATHLETES.

sword-blades. They tumble as though tossed in the arms of an invisible tornado, and they climb atop one another with their balance and agility of monkeys, until nine of them form a high pyramid, of which one herculean son of the Prophet is the sole base. Meanwhile, and in fact all the while, the sage Dervish of the tribe is making a human tee-to-tum of his respected self, and rotating more rapidly than the double screws of an Atlantic liner. So rapidly and continously does he whirl around with extended arms, that unless he is iron hooped, it is a wonder that he does not burst all to pieces and strew the Oriental scene with santified fragments.

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THE BUCKING BRONCO.

A PRODUCT OF NATURE, NOT OF EDUCATION.

Did you ever see a bucking circus horse? Emphatically no! Why not? Simply because if he were a bucker he would not only be utterly useless, but positively dangerous in the ring. The horse is naturally an exceedingly timid and suspicious animal, and in breaking him even to harness and saddle use, the trainer must keep these traits constantly in mind. Consider the limited repertory of even the best trained circus horse of any school. He can be taught to do some surprising and pleasing tricks, but there is to him a danger line beyond which neither cajolery nor force can induce him to go. He can no more be taught to "buck" than can a kangaroo to play on a key bugle. No animal can be taught to injure or kill itself, and least of all the horse; the instinct of self-preservation forbids, and no trainer can overcome that power. It would be equally preposterous to assume that any amount of compensation could induce any man in the possession of his senses to train an animal espressly to injure him. There is not a day in the season but that from one to half a dozen cowboys are laid up in hospital as a result of their battles royal with the bucking broncos, while every one of them daily receives maulings, shake-ups and bruises that would invalid men of less rugged physique and Spartan endurance.

Like every other unique frontier, national and international feature with Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the bucking broncos are genuine, from start to finish. They are natural, irreclaimable fighter, and their savage and reckless efforts to throw their riders cannot be corrected. They may be temporarily conquered after a prolonged and often dangerous struggle, requiring extraordinary agility, skill and courage on the part of their riders, but wuth every effort to mount comes a renewal of the contest between stubbornness and instinct on the other side and brains and nerve on the other, and in it the nobler