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regiments of the line, who with 100 finely trained horses go through a series of spirited tableaux and evolutions which vividly portray the life and amusements of the British soldiers in camp and on the battle-field. Among the regiments represented are the famous First Life Guards, "Black Watch," Royal Irish Lancers, Royal Artillary and a splendid military band. Manager Leslie will also give a series of military band concerts on Sundays, the building possessing excellent acoustic properties. The British Military Band will be re-inforced by stringed orchestra and the arena floored over for these concerts, which will be given every Sunday evening. A branch ticket office has been opened at 315 Wabash avenue, in charge of Thomas Morgan, who is said to be one of the few survivors in this country of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West.- Col. W. F. Cody or, to use the cognomen by which he dwells in the hearts of the American people, "Buffalo Bill," has presented to the public in his "Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World" one of the finest educational exhibitions in existence. Conveniently located as it is on 63d street, Buffalo Bill's great show affords visitors of all ages an insight into Indian and frontier life that cannot be obtained anywhere else in the world in such convenient and deeply interesting form. The red man is shown encamped in his pristine style and all the every-day round of his wild life is reproduced in realistic form at the great show. Everything about Buffalo Bill's exhibition is genuine. He is himself the grandest of the old frontier scouts and is held in the highest esteem by the Government and the military authorities. Buffalo Bill is no less the boy's hero than the grown people's beau ideal of the dashing frontiersman, and everything connected with his great show teaches an important lesson as well as affording the choicest kind of entertainment. His specimens of the rough riders of the world are taken from almost every nation and their daring evolutions on horseback are greeted with rapturous applause. Lovers of the dreadful will find in the attack on the Deadwood coach and its rescue by the scouts and plainsmen, as well as the other vivid portrayals of will western life, incidents that will gratify the most sensational appetite. In the "Wild West" Col. W. F. Cody and his able coadjutors, Nate Salisbury and John M. Burke, offer the public an exhibition that has an exhilarating and instructive influence on old and young alike. None of our readers should miss seeing it