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Golden Bay Argus, Volume 4, Issue 37, 8 February 1895, Page 2

Indications of the existence of the crater of a volcano at the bottom of the sea, between the Canary Islands and the coa3t of Portugal, have recently been discovered. A ; steamer engaged in laying a telegraph cable 1 in this part of the ocean, in latitude 39 degrees 25 minutes north, longitude 9 degrees 54 minutes west, found thirteen hundred fathoms under the bow and eight hundred fathoms under the stern, showing that the ship was over the edge of a deep submarine depression. “Off Lisbon,” says Mr. T. Mellard Reid, of the Liverpool Geological Society, .“and up to the edge of the soundings, there are great inequalities, which no doubt are due to a chain of mountains in the ocean.” The opinion sometimes expressed that medical men enjoy comparative immunity from infectious diseases, in consequence of the frequency of their exposure, is shown to be erroneous by English statistics, which indicate that “ the death rate of medical men, aged over twenty years, from scarlet fever, is nearly four times the average rate of other men of the same ace, from typhus more than twice, and from dyptheria nearly four times.” These figures forcibly illustrate the perils to which physicians are exposed. There is but one passage in the .rfible where the girls are commanded to kiss the men, and that is in the golden rule, “ Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even bo to them.” “Lord Dudley.” says Sidney Smith, was.one of the most absent minded men ! ever met in society. One day he met me in the street and invited me to meet myself: 1 Dine with me to-day and I will get Sidney Smith to meet you.’ I admitted the temptation he held out to me, but said I was engaged to meet him elsewhere. Another time, on meeting me, he turned back, put his armi through mine, muttering: ‘I don’t mind! walking with him a little way; I’ll walk* with him as far as fcha and of the street.* ”