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MONS. BELITZ,
the celebrated Magician from Egypt, performer general to

THE GRAND FOO FOO,
and professor of the Black Art to all the crowned heads of the
Cannibal Islands and Ham Sandwichlands!!

MADEMOISELLE HELIOTROPE,
the charming Danseuse from all the city theatres, but most recently
from the Imperial Deutscher Yolks Garten, Liverpool, Ireland!

SIGNOR STRAWSTEKOWSKI, the celebrated Demagogue and Snake eater, whose unrivaled feat with a living Gryllus, whose fangs have never been extracted, fills thousands with awe and delight!

    YANKEE SHOCKWIG,
    the mirth-splitting and side-provoking delineator of down-east horse
    peculiarities.  Must be appreciated to be seen.

HERR BALAMSASS, the distinguished Vocalist from Italy, whose lower notes, as recently discovered by the celebrated examination before the Council of Trent, reach so far below the epigastrium as to be utterly inaudible to the most acute auricular organs!

BRUDDER GEORGE AND AUNTY CLAWSON, the never-to-be-sufficiently-equaled delineators of Ethiopian eccentricities, whose performances during the winter of 1869 delighted overflowing houses in the Cape Cod Lunatic Asylum for 4000 consecutive nights.

BENJAMIN BOLT, Esq., the justly-celebrated trumpeter from the splendid orchestral band attached to Marnum’s Buseum, New York city, for the past fifty years!

FANTADIMO FANTODIMUS, the graceful and efficient master of ceremonies, whose efforts have been awarded by the entire available population of Blackwell’s Island, in a series of resolutions of the most pathetic description!

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Owing to future engagements, the stay of this troupe in Tyre will be
POSITIVELY FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, when the Programme will be specified
in small bills of the evening.

Admittance, 25 cents.  Doors open at 6; Master of Ceremonies makes
his bow at 7.

PROF.  BROWN D. GREEN, AGENT.

Against the advice of the editor of the Times, I dispatched an agent over to Sidon, with a supply of blanked bills from the same form, with instructions to arrange for a similar ‘sell’ on the following Monday evening in that charming village.

I was sufficiently busy during the interval that lay between this and Saturday evening in rehearsing my part for the entertainment thus advertised.  I was not entirely free from doubts of the success of a ‘take-in’ so palpable and ridiculous, and even if a house-full of numbsculls should gather, I deemed the experiment a dangerous one for me; but my editorial friend took the risk, remarking that he had calculated his chances, and knew what he was about.  Nevertheless, it was not without some trepidation that I entered Grecian Hall by the