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of Pulaski CountyIssue 44March 23, 2011

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THE CIRCUSby Kathy Wolfe

Everybody loves a circus! Tidbits looks back at the origin of the modern circus and a few of the most famous shows under the Big Top.

•AlthoughtherewerecircusesinancientRome,the modern circus as we know it has been around sincethelate1700s.PhilipAstleypremieredhiscircus in 1768 in England and is credited with bringingtrickhorse-ridingintothecircusring.Afew years later, he added jugglers and clowns to his entourage.

• Joshuah Brown changed the circus businessdramaticallyin1825whenhebecamethefirstto use a large portable canvas tent for his circus performances. This enabled his show to stay as long or short a time as he liked and present performances in all kinds of weather.

• The circus came to the United States fromEngland in 1792. Brought by owner JohnBillRicketts, thefirstperformance tookplacein Philadelphia and was attended by George Washington.Rickettshimselfjuggledwhileonhorseback during the show.

•Thecircusgainedmobilitywhentherailroadcame along. Enormous distances could be covered, safe from the weather, meaning no more horse-drawn wagons in the rain on poorly maintained roads.

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THE CIRCUS (continued):•P.T.Barnumdidn’tstartoutinthecircusbusiness,

but rather with a showplace in New York City hecalledBarnum’sAmericanMuseum,whichopened in 1841. There he featured a variety of attractions, including a paralyzed and blind former slave named JoiceHeth that BarnumclaimedhadbeenGeorgeWashington’snurse.Heexhibitedherasnearly161yearsoldandcarefully trained her to play the part. Ten years afterherdeath,Barnumfinallyadmittedtothehoax.Heenticedhiscustomerswiththeuseofclever advertising, such as his ad for a “Man-Eating Chicken,” which was merely a man chewing on a drumstick. Barnum’s museumincluded hot-air balloon rides from the roof, live acts, sideshows and “curious” human beings. In 1842, he introduced the world to General Tom Thumb, who was a dwarf named Charles Stratton.ConjoinedSiamesetwinsChangandEng also appeared for a time at the museum.

•Barnumwaspast60beforehegotintotheactualcircusbusiness,whenhelentfinancialbackingto an existing circus. “P.T. Barnum’s GrandTraveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Hippodrome”beganin1871.

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THE CIRCUS (continued): • In 1882, Barnum introduced the concept of

three rings to accommodate an increasing number of acts. Circus tents were larger, and 10,000 spectators could see a portion of the show at all times. Also that year, he spent$30,000toacquire“Jumbo,”thelargestAfricanelephant in captivity, from the London Zoo.Thousands gathered at the New York City dock forJumbo’sarrival.Withinaweek,Barnumhadrecoveredhisinvestment.ButJumbo’ssuccesswasshort-lived.Afterjustthreeyearswiththecircus, the giant pachyderm was struck and killed by a freight train in Ontario as he made his way back to the circus train. Clever Barnum, however, turned lemons into lemonade when he had Jumbo’s hide and skeleton mountedandcontinuedtochargefortheexhibitoftheremains.

•BarnummergedhisshowwithJamesA.Baileyin1888,anditbecame“TheGreatestShowonEarth.”Justthreeyearslater,Barnumwasdead,and Bailey took control of the circus.

•Theworld’sfirsthumancannonballperformancecamealongin1877.A14-year-oldgirl,Rossa“Zazel” Richter, was hurled from a spring-style cannon inLondon.Although promoterswould have the public believe that the person is launched by gunpowder, that’s just for thevisual and auditory show. The real driving force is really a spring or a blast of compressed air.

• As Barnum & Bailey continued to thrive,another giant was just getting its start in Baraboo, Wisconsin. In 1884, the Ringling Brothersstarted a small wagon circus. They combined their many talents — juggling, acrobats, music

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Tidbits® of Pulaski County Page 4THE CIRCUS (continued):

andtheater—intotheofficiallytitled“RinglingBrothersUnitedMonsterShows,GreatDoubleCircus,RoyalEuropeanMenagerie,Museum,Caravan, and Congress of TrainedAnimals.”Within six years, the show hadmoved up totraveling by rail. By 1907, they had purchased theBarnum&Baileycircusfor$410,000.

• In 1911, there were 32 different circusestraversing the country by rail. The RinglingBrothersBarnum&BaileyCircusneeded100rail cars in 1923 to transport their equipment, animals and employees. Their Big Top tent had a 10,000-person capacity and required 14 acres of land to set up the show.

•By1920,thepopularityofthecircusbegantodiminish. The street parade from the rail yard to the circus site, which was always held to herald the arrival of the circus, was discontinued by RinglingBrothers.

•Urbandevelopmentateupthelargeareasneartherailyardswherecircusessetup.TheDepressiontookitsfinancialtollonmanyoftheshows,andthe introduction of the talking picture provided a new and novel form of entertainment.

•JohnRinglingmanagedthefamilybusinessafterthe death of several of his brothers. One of the world’swealthiestmen,helostnearlytheentirefamily fortune during the Great Depression,and when he died in 1936, he had $311 in the bank.Hisnephewtookovertheoperation,andin1967, the circus was sold to the Feld family, who operates it today.

• One of Ringling’s most famous performerswasflyingtrapezeartistAlfredoCodono,whoperfectedthetriplesomersault.Hewasmarriedto another famous circus performer, LillianLeitzel, an aerialist who performed stunts onrings. In1931,abrassconnectiononLillian’srope broke, causing her to fall 45 feet onto a concrete floor. Head and spinal injuries wereso severe, she perished two days later at age 39. Codono’sfeatwasfinallytoppedin1982,whenRinglingBrothers’trapezeartistMiguelVazquezcompleted the first quadruple somersault inperformance history.

• The circus changed forever in July of 1956whentheGreatestShowonEarthmadeitslastappearance under the Big Top tent. While the Ringling family commented that the “tentedcircusis…athingofthepast,”LIFEmagazinemourned its loss, writing, “a magical era had passed forever.”

Cat Intimidates Owner’s GrandsonBySamanthaMazzotta

DEAR PAW’S CORNER: You recently advised an owner whose cat ran and hid when company arrived not to worry unless it acted “very strange, such as hissing at familiar people, hiding for hours or not eating.” Well, our 6-year-old cat, “Clyde,” hides often when strangers arrive, sometimes for hours. But the weirdest thing is that he hisses and glares at our 3-year-old grandson, and he has done this since Day One. Our grandson is showing signs of being afraid of him and tries to stay as far away as possible. Can anything be done to help this relationship? Our grandson has a cat of his own that he gets along great with. Do you think Clyde was abused as a young kitten? We adopted him from a shelter. -- Susan J., via e-mail

DEARSUSAN:It’sdifficulttotellwhatapet’spastlife was like when adopting from a shelter. Clyde may or may not have been abused as a young kitten,

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My late great buddy Dodge was born to a barncatandadoptedatabout6monthsofage.Hewasextremely skittish around humans, and it wasseveral months before I could even pet him. While he eventually became a near-typical housecat, he remained very selective about who could approach him, and he always hid when new humans showed up.Suddenchangesinhisenvironmenttendedtobevery stressful forDodge, alongwithunpredictablepeople(and3-year-oldscanbequiteunpredictable!).My advice is to keep Clyde and your grandson separated for now, until your grandson has grown abit.There’s a chance theywill never be friends,butit’ssomethingthatyoucan’tforceonClydeoryour grandson. Meantime, continue to provide a supportive, encouraging environment for your cat.

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• Lionsare theonlybigcats toexhibit sexualdimorphism, meaning the males and females look very different from each other. Because they are faster and more agile than males, lionesses do most of the hunting. The male seldom hunts, as he is weighted down by his heavy mane, which cancausehimtooverheatifheoverexerts.Mostlions are inactive for about 20 hours a day, with two hours a day spent walking, 50 minutes eating and some hunting done at dawn.

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•Atonlysixmonthsofage,aSiberiantigercanbeas big as a full-grown leopard. Their life span is about the same as the lion, 10 to 15 years in the wild, 20 years in captivity.

•Evenwiththeirsize,tigerscanrunataspeedofupto40milesperhour(65km/hour),andcanleapupto32feet(10meters).Theirrunningatsuchspeedsis limited,however,as theydon’thave a lot of stamina and can only run for short distances.

•Atiger’snightvisionisfivetosixtimesbetterthan that of a human.

• Just as fingerprints are distinctive for everyhumanbeing,everytiger’spatternofstripesisunique. The average tiger has more than 100 stripes.Thepatternisnotjustintheanimal’sfurbutextendstoitsskinunderneathaswell.Shavea tiger and the stripes are still there!

•It’sestimatedthatthereareonlyabout5,000tigersliving in the wild today. Yet there are more than 12,000beingkeptasprivatepetsintheUnitedStates.Beforedecidingtokeepatigerasapet,considerthatitisa20-yearcommitment.Anycatover100pounds(45.4kg)needsalivingspaceof500to1,000squarefeet(46.5to93squaremeters),anenclosureatleast8feet(2.5meters)tall, with a ceiling. Plan to feed your tiger 1 to 3 percent of its body weight in fresh meat daily. Soundslikealotoftime,workandmoney!

• On March 24, 1765, Parliament passes theQuartering Act, which required the coloniesto house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies, local inns, livery stables, ale houses, uninhabited houses, outhouses or barns. Forcing colonists from their own homes was not the intent of the law.

•OnMarch21,1871,journalistHenryMortonStanley begins his famous search throughAf-ricaformissingBritishexplorerDr.DavidLiv-ingstone.WhenStanleyfoundhimonOct.27,he stepped forward and stretched out his hand: “Dr.Livingstone,Ipresume?”

•OnMarch25,1911,flamesengulftheTriangleShirtwaistCompanyfactoryinNewYorkCity,killing 145 workers. Only one elevator was op-erational in the 10-story building. There were two stairways down to the street, but one was locked from the outside. The inside fire hosewas rotted and its valve was rusted shut.

•OnMarch26,1941, Italyattacks theBritishfleet at SudaBay,Crete, usingmanned torpe-does to sink a British cruiser. Known as the “Chariot,” the manned torpedo was ridden by “pilots” to “drive” them to their targets in the harbor.

•OnMarch23,1962,Pakistan’sgovernor,AyubKhan,givesfirstladyJacquelineBouvierKen-nedyahorseshenicknames“BlackJack.”Jack-iechose“BlackJack”toserveastheceremonialriderlesshorseduringPres.Kennedy’sfuneral.

•OnMarch27,1973,theactorMarlonBrandodeclinestheAcademyAwardforBestActorforhis performance in “The Godfather” as a protest againstHollywood’sportrayalofNativeAmeri-cansinfilm.ThefirstperformertoturndownaBestActorOscarwasGeorgeC.Scott,whode-clined to accept his award for “Patton” in 1971.

•OnMarch 22, 1983, the Pentagon awards aproduction contract worth more than $1 billion toAMGeneralCorporationtodevelop55,000HighMobilityMultipurposeWheeledVehicles(HMMWV).NicknamedtheHumvee,therug-ged vehicle was designed to transport troops and cargo. In 1992, a civilian version of the Humvee,knownastheHummer,wentonsale.

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for FREE in Tidbits please email: BRLEnterprises@gmail.comMarch 26, 9amMiles 4 Missions 10K & 5K at the Westside Baptist Church in WaynesvilleMarch 26, 11am - 4pmTaste of Pulaski County & Basket Auction at the St. Robert Community CenterMarch 30, 7am - 3:30pmArt Show at the Waynesville Career CenterApril 1Fabulous Fakes: fake acts perform table to table during the luncheon at Pershing Community Center, FLWApril 1, 7pmTri-County Center for Independent Living Center Fundraiser: Trivia night & baked goods auction at Eugene Northern Hall, 400 4th St. in Rolla.

April 2Opening Weekend Pulaski County Courthouse and Old Stagecoach Stop MuseumsApril 14, 7pm - 10pmThe Sound of Music Performance in the WHS TheatreApril 16, 1pm - 3pmSt. Robert Easter Egg HuntApril 16, 7pmRichland Saddle Club Fun ShowApril 17, 1pmMeat shoot at Steelville Country Club, 269 W. Hwy 8. Proceeds go to Tri-County Center for Independent Living.April 21, 4pm - 8pm3rd Thursday in downtown WaynesvilleApril 30, 11amWomen of Significance Brunch, benefit for Genesis House at the Waynesville United Methodist Church

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The programs have different criteria, so if you don’t qualify for one, you mightqualify for another. The website will help you sort that out, and if you have multiple medications, you might well end up in more than one program. For example, youmighthave a Medicare drug discount card and still be eligible for a prescription assistance program.

Inmostcases,youcanfillouttheprogram’sapplication right there online. Then you’llprint it out and take it to your doctor for his or her signature and specifics about yourmedication.

Depending on your eligibility, you couldend up not paying anything for your drugs. The prescriptions themselves will be sent either directly to you or to your doctor’soffice.

If you don’t have access to a computer,you can call 1-888-477-2669 to go through the eligibility questions. Then someone will send the forms to your doctor to complete andmailorfaxbacktothem.

Getting Help With Prescription Drugs

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