Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-30
NIisceIIaneous Items.

The proposition before the Nebraska cOnsti-
tutional convention, to confer suffrage upon
women, is remarkable in that it provides that
the women, as well as the men, may vote upon
its adoption. Separate boxes are to be pro-
vided for the women, who are not 10 vote upon
the adoption of any other clause of the new
constitution. The women suffrage clause must
receive majority of both the men and women
who vote.
A story is told of father in church, who.
when the Lmarriage service came to the point
where the clergyman asks, "Who giveth this
woman to be married to this man?' replied.
well, sir, | am called to do it, although it do
20 agin the grain. | wanted her to marry Bill
Plowser, who is worth twice the money O. that
ere man." The answer was not considered
regular.
In reply to young friend leaving a town be-
cause some things in ii were not exactly to her
taste or content, an old lady of experience said,
My dear, when you have found place where
every body and every thing are always pleasant
and nothing whatever is disagreeable LET me
know, and I'll move there t."
An expedition will leave Chicago on Tuesday
for the Yellowstone river to make a thorOu oh
exploration and examination of the topoorapby
geology and botany of this famous section of
the country, all of which is volcanic, and lies
about 1000 feet above the sea level A photo-
grapher will accompany the party, and the report
of its researches will be submitted to the war
department and published.
One of the most interesting objects in the
Central park museum at New York is Verreaux's
specimen OF taxidermy, which received the first
grand prize at the Paris exposition. 1t repre-
sentS an Arab mounted on a camel attacked by
lion. A lioness, killed by the Arabs knife.
lies at the feet of the camel, while a huge lion
has his claws fastened on the back of the camel
and leg OF the man, who, with the courage of
despair, is prepared to receive the beast with up-
lifted knife. The groupis life-like and Startling
a farls correspondent tells this story: A boy
OF thirteen, found fighting, was taken TO be
| shot He took silver watch from his pocket.
and cried out, Captain, do let me take this first
| to a friend across the street; | borrowed il .
"Ohl you scampP said the officer, "a under
| stand-you want to run off" "My word of
honor, will come back again." said the bow
/ and the captain, seeing it was a child was only
too glad to be rid Of him. In ten minutes the
| boy came back and took his stand with his face
to the wall. "Here | am; fireP' Does Roman
history tell us anything brayer2 The captain
boxed the little hero's ears, and ordered him
never to show his face there again. They cOuld
not fire on him.
| A California paper gives an account of won
derfui cave near Calayeras, wherein, as it al
| legesI columns and pilasters, ornamental at
their capitals with yolutes and modilions, at ir-
regular intervals enlist the visitors attention
| while fine representations of tapestry, cornice
and iresco work are engraved and plainly visi
Bile on its walls. Every form of stalactites i'm.
| NScpAhEAl uuiiH ouSpeIlucu, present.
ing all the varigated colors of the rainbow. and
brilliantly sparkle from the pale light of can.
| die like thousand diamonds while like nro-
portion of stalagmite underneath, with their
sugar-coated surfaces, are constantly presented
TO view. Here and there" it is added, care
carelessly piled bruised and broken fragments
OF those appropriate emblems of infinite wis
dom that have succumbed to the normal de.
structiye qualities of man." The last sentence
is fine, but mysterious
Miss Estha Greatbatch, who has jus: passed
the second Especially examination for women "A
the University of London, in French and in
Harmony and Counterpart, also took the SECOND
prize at the examination which followed prof
Guthrie's lectures on physics at the Londor
institute, in February, 1870, and out of seventy
four candidates the first prize for the examina
ton in physical geography, which followe,
Prof. Hu1ley's lectures on that subject in 1869
In 1868 Miss Greatbatch passed as junior witt
first class honors, and gained prize for matht
mates at the Cambridge local examination. 1
December, 1870, she passed as a senior, with frs
class honors, gaining the Mill-Taylor schola
ship and prize for political economy. Ms