Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-25

Five democratic state judges in Kentucky,
namely, Golfer, Wicklitfe, Randall, Brewer and
Graves, have decided that negro testimony must
be admitted in the state courts.
The ties used on South American RAILWAYS
have been transported almost entirely from
California, as the hard wood ties cut on the
Andes cannot be used without boring the spike
holes with augurS. The ties cost one dollar
each landed at Callao.
There are now suspended or communicated
in Germany by their respective Catholic bishops,
for opposition to nfallibility five professors at
Bonn, three at Breslau, three at Munich, two at
Braunsberg, and three other higher school
directors.
The medical students at the university of vi
emma lately mobbed the professor of botany,
karsten, on account of the severity of his eX-
aminations. They beSeged him for long time
in his room, and when he came out, punched
his ribs with umbrellas, and offered other vio-
lence. They hope to drive him off the faculty,
but he still sticks.
About the year 1885 the legislature of Penn
sylYania passed a resolution that "no member
thereof should come to the house barefoot, or
eat his bread and cheese on the steps,"
A minister once gave q commentary to an old
Scotch lady who was well verSed in the scrip
lures He thought she would enjoy the expla-
nations on her iavorite passages. Calling on
her few days alterward, he said: GLOW did
you like the book gave you p. CAV, mon. it's A
w,
A coal miner who had been idle all winter be-
cause OF the strike, was asked how he managed
to live so long without work. The reply was
brief but very expressive: "When we don't
work, we live as we used to live in Ireland and
when we do work we live like Americans, and
that's jest the explanation Of how we get along
at ALL"
An English scientific journal mentions sad
example of the baneful effects produced by the
lndlScrlmlnate use Of the decoction of lockwood
for promoting the growth or changing the
color OF the hair" young woman in Lower
Silesia, DESTROYS of renewing the crop of chest
nut hair which she had lost through an attack
of fever, made use of the lockwood lotion, but
having neglected TO project her neck and face
from it, they become covered with red hair to
such degree that "she seemed but little differ
ent from an ape or monkey" Such a fact
may be gratifying TO Mr.. Darwin, but we hope
will convey a warning to those who are seeking
to restore lost charms.
A communication, signed ga Poor Girl" ap-
pears in a Boston paper, as follows 81 read
IN Thursdays paper of a scamp who insulted
lady on the street; but what think YOU of some
of our most prominent merchants who, when
poor girls apply for work, are unjustly insult
ed? Invent to firm not long ago and asked
Tor work. The pay, the gentleman said, was
from four to six dollars week. | could not
work for that Well, said he, l will give you
twenty and you need not work at all. Again,
young girl went into a store on Temple Place,
applying for situation as a saleswoman She
was informed that the pay was from six to seven
dollars a week, but she must dress better How
can J. said she for that, and pay my boardY
%, we don't expect you to; you must get your
clothes outside as other girls do, was the insult
ing reply. Now ask, how are girls going TO
make an honest living for such pay? What
wonder that there are so many fallen oneS 9