Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-16
ITEMS OF interest.

II well Illustrates the American capacity
for being easily amused 10 learn that a man
aver is travelling around with a cheap theat-
real show, to which are added the lobster
boy. the camel girl. the dog-faced man and
the African wild woman.
The taste for snuff appears to be declining
in England with much rapidIty. According
to Official returns, the country received last
year in its ports for home consumption only
q Mounds There was also imported 4.S43
pounds Of this commodity designed TO be eX-
ported again.
LORD DUFFERIN has adopted the rule Of
appointing no married men on his stan IN
India. The position OF aide-de-camp in royal
OF vieeregal households, says the London
Truth, is extremely analogous to that OF
fOOiman, and it Is quite enough TO nave
large establishment of such functlonaries,
without adding their wives to the strength
Of it.
A GENTLEMAN from Cape Girardeau went
out squirrel hunting last week, and during
the day had occasion to load his gun IN a
hurry, in order to get shot at squirrel. He
killed it, but il cost him dollar bill. besides
the ammunition. In his hurry he rammed
home a dollar greenback. He picked up the
fragments, but they were worse than
counterfeit.
WHEN the late Bishop Of London revisited
the University Chapel at Cambridge, after
long absence. he found the same yerger there
whom he remembered in his college days. and
said to him: "You have much to be- grateful
for Il have, indeed. my lord replied the
old man. "fOr have heard every sermon that
has been preached IN the chapel for fifty
s .tiiiS and Oi''' the A0'o am 0n'''''An
OF the remains Of Gustavus Adolphus,
King Of Sweden. killed IN Germany during the
thirty Years war. the larger portion. inelud-
ing the heart, was sent home and lald in the
Church OF Ridderh0lm, while the rest was
embalmed, placed IN an urn, ana ueeoslIeu IN
the Cloister Church Of WeIssenfels. Inc latter
edifce being now in \ very decayed state, II
has been determined TO send the urn with It's
precious contents to Sweden, IN order that i
NAV be added TO the rest of the heroic hing s
remains at RidderhOlm.
AMONG the books presented by George W.
I.svbraud to the Philadelphia Methodist His
torieal Society was little volume on slavery,
nv John Wesley, and reprinted by Enoch
story, Of Strawberry alley, IN llS4. The book
Is in a perfect state OF preservation, and upon
the ny-leaf is stated the fact that Il originally
belonged to the Rev. Thomas Robertson,
father-in-l law OF Rev. Matthew Sorln, who
was a brother to q former Priest OF st. Au-
gustineis Church, Philadelphia. and was by
him presented TO the gentleman who now con-
tributes it to the society.
The attempt TO account for the milk in the
eOcOanut may be postponed for a season, in
view Of a threatened danger to the coeoanut
itself. 1t appears that the 'cocoanut bug"
an old enemy, which first appeared i've years
ago in the western part Of the island of Cuba,
is again doing frightfui damage TO the trees.
Thousands OF cOcoanut trees have been de-
stroved and the bug is slowly but steadily ad-
vaneing east. Several ingredients have been
pointed out by naturallsts as effective In
checking their devastation, but little heed has
been taken OF the indications. and 1t is feared
by many that the bug will eventually reach
BaracOa, the consequence OF which to the
= Ill .7rr Fyr-irh a
ENGLISH landowners are menaced with the
same impecuniOsity as French hterateurs.
No less than $1,000 acres vainly demand ten
ants in Essex. Within thirty miles of London
ia scrss were lately sold for e. 400, for which
f50OO was refused ten years ago. Lady
Catherine Gaskell, great arlstocrat. pro-
poses in an English magazine article as