MISCELLANEOUS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3105, 10 June 1881, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

A Naples correspondent writes to say that on the evoning on March 2_ the Tirreno, belonging to the Florid Corupuny, when on. its

voyage from Bari, sighted an elegant twooared boat about five miles off Venice. The captain of the Tirreno, surprised at finding so small a boat so far out at sea, mado signals, but received no reply. He then stopped the steamer and sent some sailors to examine the boat, when it was found that m it lay three persons apparently asleep, one at the prow and two at the stern. They were three corpses, in an incipient state of putrefaction. No traces of violence were found on the bodies; but at the bottom of the boat, which was carpeted, was a small quantity of blood-stained water. The bodies were all those of young men, one dressed in the uniform of the Austrian navy, the others in elegant civil costume. Nothing whatever was found in their pockets, but on the ringer of one were some rather valuable rings, and two elegant sticks lay in the bottom of the boat. The name Oriente was painted on the side. The two oars were in their place in the rowlocks. On reaching land the bodies, unidentified, were buried with all formalities. Afterwards news canio from Pola that on March 13 four officers left that port for a pleasure-trip in a rowing-boat. One was the agent of the imperial commissariat of the navy, two others were his pupils, and the fourth a cadet of the 43rd Regiment of Infantry. The boat not returning the same day, the admiral sent a steamer and two steam launches in search, but they all returned unsuccessful after a long search. The initials of the linen found on the three bodies correspond with the names of these officers. How they died and how the fourth disappeared remains a mystery. —English Paper.

Among the more remarkable wreaths laid upon the coffin of the late Czar was one, of great beauty, inscribed, "To the Czar Civilizer," from the lady doctors of Russia. Thirty ladies belonging to the medical profession in St. Petersburg and elsewhere had united in this tribute to the Sovereign under whom their sex was first freely permitted to practice the healing art in Europe. In the United States lady doctors are more numerous even than in Russia. There are at present 244 ladies in America who graduated at the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia. Dr Rachel BodIcy, the dean of that college, recently instituted an inquiry into the success of its graduates in their profession. One hundred and eighty-one of the 244 answered her inquiries. Of these 30 had abandoned the profession; 98, or more than one-half the remainder, had devoted themselves to the treatment of diseases peculiar to their sex ; while 59 were employed as resident or visiting physicians in some asylum, hospital, or school for girls. Springfield, in Massachusetts, and a town in Michigan, have women as " city physicians," and seventythree medical societies in the Union have admitted women to full membership. Of 50 who were married, 43 report that the effect of the 6tudy and practice of medicine have been favorable to the dischargp 0 f their domestic duties as wives and Mothers. The average income of 76 who furnished' particulars was nearly £600 p er ann um. Four lady doctors are earning from £3000* to £4000 per annum.—P„U Mall Budget It is stated that the Crown Princess of Germany received by post an anonymous letter declaring that her illustrious husband, the Crown Prince, would fall a victim to a sentence of the Nihilists at the funeral of the murdered Czar. March 27th being the second anniversary of B "the death of her third son, Prince Waldemar, Her Highness, accompanied by her children, with Princess Christian and Princess William, wenfc out to Potsdam to attend divine service, in the Eriedenskirche, where the deceased; Prince is buried, and returned in the* evening to hear, of course, that the anonymous and discomposing prophet had been falsified. The missive in question is as likely as not to have been, concocted in a spirit of cruel levity - yet, the search for its unprincipled author, it will doubtless form the subject of comment in the Imperial Parliament,' when the, memorial on tho Socialist law comes on for discussion. Meanwhile, ifc is persistently that the and! Germany are seriously om Urifnging to the_ notice of the European Powers; theperilous spread of revolutionary principfes. and intend proposing some common and mv ness B ny» • ' -"<»>' ° f th , e ,° **° w «" o ji „. -' _ ; —" Concert goers had the pleasure _deing among the audience Mdlle. lima de Murska, with whom, when they were little boys, many of them, at a far away and suitably respectful distance, fell desperately in love. Mdlle. Murska looked, to possibly prejudiced eyes, more youthful than ever Her hair, the pride of the artist's head, had grown more plentiful than of yore, and its beautiful hue of gamboge spread itself over the ringlets which fell bountifully about her fair neck, and laughed to scorn the ravages which time works at the expense of artists less gifted by nature. That the lady was 'in the best health was abundantly proved by her fair cheeks, on which the bloom shone so resplendently ; and Mdle. Murska was doubtless welcomed back to English life by a large circle of admirers." It is exactly eighty years (says the Home News) since the first census of Grreat Britain was taken. Not till ten years after was a similar reckoning attempted in Ireland, and then only with very unsatisfactory results. Yet the census is no modern invention. The office in Craig's Court, which, on April 4th, was the very life-focus and heart-centre of our great Empire, had its prototype in the Villa Publica, the building in the Field of Mars, wherein the Roman Censor more than two thousand years ago anticipated the functions of the English Registrar- General. The post, however, is easier and less complex under Queen Victoria than it was under the Csesars. It was a startling disclosure of the last census that the United Kingdom contained about nine hundred thousand more women than men, and philosophical statisticians are no doubt impatient to learn whether nature has in the interim adjusted the balance or enlarged the very remarkable disproportion.