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Herald [?]

JACKSON PARK SKETCHES.

There has been a shift of lecturers at Buffalo Bill's show in Sixty-third street. The big fellow who used to howl out the features of the programme and then wave a red flag for the performers to appear is now in Boston. His voice wasn't strong enough to be of any service to the spectators, but nobody can truthfully say that he didn't do the best he could. The proprietors were anxious to make a change, but men with fog horn voices were scarce and so the howler from Boston was permitted to hold his job for a much longer period than anybody had a right to expect. One day, however, Colonel Saulsbury was startled by a roar of a man who was selling peanuts in the grand stand. It tore round the big amphitheatre, rolled out of the entrances, and drowned the voice of the lecturer who was supposed to be something of a yelper himself. On the following day the peanut man was summoned to appear before a jury on howling. This owlish body was composed of Colonel Cody, Major Burke and Colonel Saulsbury. The peanut vender was asked to give "some specimens of his ability." Opening his face half way to his forehead the long legged candidate let loose a deafening bellow.