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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2032, 18 February 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Indications of the cxistenee of the oruter of a volcano Rt the bottom ot the sou, between the Canary Islands and the coast of Portugal, have recent ly been discovered. A steamer engaged in laying a telegraph cable in this port of the ocean, in latitude !!’.• decrees 'JS minutes north, lonstitiule decrees ''l minutes west, found thirteen hundred fathoms under the bow and eight hundred fathoms under the stern, showing that ttic ship was over the edge of a deep submarine depression. -Olf l.ishoti,” says Mr. T. Mel lard livid, of the Liverpool lleological Society, "and up to the edge of the soundings. there arc 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 (heir exposure, is shown to be erroneous by Knglish 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 age. from typhus more than twice, and from dyplh uia ner.rlv four times.” These figures forcibly illustrate the perils to which physicians are coii.-t-inth-exposed. There is but one passage in the nihic where the girls are commanded to hiss the men. and that is in the golden rule, <• Whatsoever ye would that men should do to V oti. do yon even eo to them,"