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Buffalo Bill's wild west show is becoming recognized as just as important as the World's Fair itself to the thousands of visitors now in the city, and few people will consider their visit complete until at least one trip has been made to the big amphitheater at Sixty-third street and Stony Island avenue. Though the performance is called a wild west show, there is no more cosmopolitan aggregation in the country, with the possible exception of Midway Plaisance, than Buffalo Bill's troupe of rough riders. Indians, Assyrians, Cossacks, Mexicans and Arabians, as well as soldiers from France, Germany, Russia and England, combine in the entertainment of thousands of visitors daily. Everything has been done on a most elaborate scale, many new features introduced, and at the same time all the old features which captured the old world and have become household pictures in this country, have been retained. All this ha cost a marvelous outlay of money, but the [?] crowds that attend the daily performance show the [?] the money has been well invested.