CLIPPINGS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8676, 28 December 1893, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

Iα all there are about seven hundred women doctors in Russia, and many o f th«M occupy important positions in hoapiubud workhouses, in educational establishments in factories and works of various kinds am! in Government institutions, while othw. hold appointments in the eervioe of muni" cipal bodies. The remuneration for the* different posts varies from about £200 downwards. So far as private pmoUceU concerned, there ia one woman doctor wha makes an income of £1800 per annum~a phenomenally good record. But the aver age incoino of the woman medical Draoti' tioner in private practice is Mnethiiu under £300 a year. • An interesting study of the horee-power of the whale has been made by the eminent anatomist, Sir William Turner, of tho Uni versity of Edinburgh, Scotland, in conjun* tion with Mr John Hendcrsou, the equally eminent Glasgow shipbuilder. The site and dimenaious of a great whale stranded several years a«o on the shore at Longriddy furnished the necesaa.-y daCa for a oomput*. tiou of the power necessary to propeUt »t the rate of twelve miles an hour. Thli whale measured 80ft iv length, 20ft acrou the Bangea of th«j tail, and weighed 74 ton*. It waa calculated that 145 horae-power wt» necessary to attain the speed memicned. Nina, the great hippopotamus, whfoh formed one of the principal attr»o« tions of the Berlin Zoological Gardens has died after four weeks' illnew,' During that time the poor nuitnal had eaten nothing, and literally died of starvation. Afterwards tho e'aiiee of iti death was found. An indiarnbbcr ball, belonging probably to some ohild visitor waa found in the stomach, where it closed up the opening from tho stomach into the duodenum. Tho stomach contained the last* meal eaten by the hippopotamui • mouth ago. The R.M.S. Arawa; of the Canadian. Australian line, touched at Suva (Fiji) on the 24th uIU, en route from Sydney to Vancouver. Owing to the prevaleuco of measles in Sydney, the Arnwa waa quarantined during her three hours' atay at Fiji, A Suva paper, referring to tho liuo, eaya :•— "The arrival of tho Arawa is cause for sincere congratulation. Tlioso who have con« ceived and patiently carried out the project doserve all praise, and will, no doubt, receive with that meed to their foroeight and energy more substantial nroofaof appreciation of their efforts. Tho Arawn initiatea the service. Fiji must do her best toward* securing for it the signal success it doeervea. A letter of congratulation wna forwarded to Captain Stuart, of tho Arawa, by the Suva ■ Chamber of Commerce, on the arrival of hiaship."

The following letter (aaye tho Agt) hat been reoeived by the Melbourne Progrostive Society of Carpenters and Joiners from one of its members, who has lately been trying his luck in South Africa :—" I arrived in Capetown on October 29th, alter a boisterous voyage of 25 days. It is a small plaeo, with gaunt, old-fashionod buildings, flibout 100 years behind Melbourne. There i« a little work going on here, but there are plenty of men to do it, aud hundreds are arriving every week. The wages are from 7b to lOe a day. The accounts from Johannesburg are very bad, and show that men are walking abjut there almoet starving, and the men returning advise us not to go up there on any account. Bricklayerers, plasterers, nod carpenters' work is there done by Kaffir*, who work fit a very cheap rate. Everybody here works nino hours a day. 1 eond the** few lines to advise any of our members not to come over here, as tho plaeo in very email and there are a lot of inon walking about looking for work."

Another dispersal of Napoleonic relic* (according to the World) took place re* cently, but excited very litllo interest.. In eonsequeuce of the death of M. Dupout all the furniture used by the Emperor during his sojourn at Forto-Forraio was sold by auction. The only remaining memento of Napoleon's roaidenae in Elba oonnlsta of a fine plane-tree whioh he planted near tho villa he lived in. Although tho article* sold were very good, they failed to f«*t«h extraordinary prices.

How ill the majority of people obwrva ono another's facoe, and l»ow ill th«y describe what tlioy do observe, is proved once more by the description of Napoleon given by Mr Glover in the Century :—•' Ht has a full, round, faltish face." Napoleon , ! face (saye the Pall Mall Qazetti) ww the type of the nearest approach to v »ijnarp-~ the most usual form tv Italy—the tsquiro* ness being of course, duo to tho hue of the lower j&w, which was open mkl nearly horizunul. The look r>f roumlncse i» firoduoed by breadth across the oliocfk bones, ulnees of cheeks and shortnoee of chin. But because a face looks broad the first . Word chat suggests itself to deecribo breadth is used recklessly. This carclctenoefl h&t deprived us of the deacriptioim of niftny eyes we ihould be interest cd to know of* Aβ a rule, eyes are described 1 , as it were, beforehand. A dark person is usually described as dark-eyed, or evtm blaok-oyetl, without verification. Thus there r» several descriptions of Rossotti, all giving eyes of difleront colour. It it only from the portrait done by Mr Ilolman Hunt, when the two artists were tttudonUi together, that you see how lijght they weiw. Rojsatti was drawn by hie friend iti the M* of drawing him, and the eyea reflect thi white drawing-paper, but it io to be cletrfj seen that they were neither brown fie* dare