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MISCELLANEA. 
ONE VALUE OE TOBACCO. 
It appears that tobacco occasionally confers post mortem 
privileges on its votaries. A savage of the Feejee Islands 
informed Commander Wilkes that his fellow-islanders had 
refrained from eating one sailor of a crew they had killed 
“ because he tasted too much like tobacco.” 
ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
From the London Gazette , March Qd, 1858. 
Royal Artillery. — John Ferris, to be ActingVeterinary 
Surgeon. 
War Office, Pall Mall, March 16 th. 
Veterinary Surgeon William C. Lord, from the 14th 
Light Dragoons, to be Veterinary Surgeon to the 5th Light 
Dragoons. 
Acting Veterinary Surgeon Frederick Bailey to be Vete- 
rinary Surgeon vice Austin Shaw, appointed to the 18th Light 
Dragoons. 
14th Light Dragoons — Acting Veterinary Surgeon Henry 
Dawson, to be Veterinary Surgeon vice Lord, appointed to 
the 5th Light Dragoons. 
OBITUARY. 
Died on February 10th, at Ormskirk, Thomas Smith, 
M.R.C.V.S., aged 29. His diploma bears date May 24, 
1855. 
ERRATUM IN NO. 363. 
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