MR BARNUM'S NOVELTIES.
The ingenious Mr Barnum has a surprise in store for John Bull—another surprise, and this time one that will excite no controversy, but will be welcomed in the most distinguished zoological circles. According to a letter which we have seen from Mr Barnum, "sumbo's first , baby will he born in London if no accident prevents." Jumbo, it is .well to explain, is the proud consort of" Hebe." The feraalo olephant has a twenty months' period for her offspring, and " Hebe" is to reach us in June, in time for the event looked, for in November next. If Jumbo lives he will also arrivo here in November. "It seems peculiarly proper," says Mr Barnum, " that Jurabo's first should bo born.in the country where he is so much loved, and where lie has spent most of liis life." ' He i^.
perfectly healthy, docile, and happy as a patriarch surrounded with his family of forty could wish. He weighs a ton more than when he felt England, Scott, his friend and companion of eighteen years, is still with him. If no accident occurs, the "elephantine family," father, mother and child, are to make a tour of Europe. This same " Hebe" is the mother of " Columbia," Mr Barnum's first baby elephant, born in Philadelphia four years ago, who is now well advanced in her education. Little "Bridgeport," two years old, has grown distressingly large, arid is said to be rapidly losing caste as a baby wonder. These two are the only elephants born in captivity.. If Mr Barnum's health and vigor continue, he intends to be present "ac the advent of Jumbo's first-born." At present he is arranging for an. ethnological congress of Ravage and heathen tribes, at which Hindoos, Afghans, Burmese, Buddhists, Tod as Indians, Botacndas, Zulus, Nubians, Australian "cannibals," boomerang casters, Japanese, and real nautcli girls (Mr Davis has just sent them off from Liverpool) will assist, It is characteristic of Mr Barnum that he intends to invite all the missionaries in New York to converse with these interesting peoplo, though he, it is believed, may make an exception in the case of the nautch girls,—Pall Mall Gazette,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1703, 5 June 1884, Page 2
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359MR BARNUM'S NOVELTIES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1703, 5 June 1884, Page 2
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