MISCELLANEOUS.

Southland Times, Issue 631, 13 February 1867, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

j Dr Maey Walker. — A good deal of interest has been created of late by the appearance of [ Miss Mary Walker, M.D.. of New York, at some i of our hospitals. On Wednesday, this lady ett tended the operations at Middlesex Hospital, and j witnessed the removal of dead bone from a jaw L by Mr Lawson. and an attempted reduction of I an old dislocation of the humerus by Mr De r Morgan. Dr Mary Walker has taken to her , vocation quite seriously. With her it is evidently ' no mere passing whim. She practised medicine in New York for five years before war broke out, i. then -volunteered for the Federal Army medical " service, and served through a campaign of four . years during the first three years being with the I Army of the Potomac. In tlie course of her military career she was taken prisoner of war and after a captivity of four months was regu- , larly exchanged, the happy rebel whose freedom was thus purchased being a full -grown and moustached surgeon, six feet high. As regards Dr Mary Walker's costume, we have only to say that the v eight of her garments is suspended from the shoulder, very much as is the case with her professional brethern. She is strongly of opinion that the great weight of the clothes being borne by the waist is highly injurious, and doubt less there is much truth and sound sense in her opinion. Dr Mary Walker will make but a short stay in the metropolis, to visit the hospitals and museums. — Lancet. Romance xs Real Life. — The following story, notwithstanding its romantic nature, may be relied upon, we are assured, as in every way authentic : — Many years since a young lady, the daughter of an Austrian nobleman, left the home of her parents in consequence of a disagreement with her father. Years elapsed without the bereaved parent finding any clue to her whereabouts, notwithstanding his utmost researches, and, as he advanced in years, the desire of once more clasping to his arms his only offspring grew strongly upon him, and he determined upon using every effort to discover the lost one. On the assumption of the Earl of Derby to the reins of government (with whom he was intimately acquainted) he besought that nobleman to interest himself to discover the whereabouts of his daughter, to which his Lordship responded by immediately communicating with the different Governments of the Australian colonies to some of which it was deemed probable the young lady had gone. His Excellency Sir Henry Manners Sutton, Governor of Victoria, was amongst others requested to interest himself in the matter, whereupon His Excellency immediately communicated with the wardens on the various goldfields. The result was that Mr Warden T , of A , on being applied to, recollected that Mr C , late clerk of the local court of petty sessions, had a servant answering in every way the description furnished of the lost one. After due inquiry, the warden's surmises proved to be correct, and the truant was found. It appeared, further, that the young lady had only lately been married to a well-to-do merchant, also an Austrian, residing in Ararat, who now states his intention to return to his own country, and exchange the toils and cares of business for a position far more exalted than his wildest dreams had ever anticipated. — Avoca Mail. Jan 19. Why is the King of Prussia like an exorcist ? — Because he has disposessed his neighbours. — Punch. By general consent it has been determined, in future, to describe the Jamaica negro as " a man and a bother," instead of a man and a brother. — Fun^ * The Dutch and Belgian washerwomen, who get up their linen so beautiful wliite, use refined borax as a washing power. " Old Poet." — Baron Wahrendorff, one of the greatest noblemen of Sweden, and among the foremost gourmands in Europe, recently gave the first of a series of dinners of a very exquisite character. Port wine of the year 1760 was Berved ! A Natueali Consequence. — A Philadelphia " help," tried for larceny in August last, called witnesses to character, one of whom said "he had never heard anything against her character, as he was hard of hearing." No Place ijke London. — The man who has a stake in the country writes to say that he is longing to get back to a chop in town. — Punch. A g-entleman was always complaining to his father-in-law of his wife's temper. At last, papa-in-law becoming weary of these endless grumblings, and being a bit of a wag, replied — " Well, my dear fellow, if I hear of her tormenting you any more, I shall disinherit her."