The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-05-31
FOR THE LADu9.

Several ladies are employed on the
staff of computers In the astronomical
observatory At Harvard College.
Miss Eula Morsh IL secretary Of an ex.
change for woman's work, recently es.
with decided success.
The trustees Of Columbia College
stand twenty to two against the admts-
sion Of women. President Barnard
stands with the minority in favor Of it.
A Michigau man told his daughter
that If she learned to work he would
surprise her. She learned the art and
he surprised her by discharging the
hired girl.
Men are 90 fearful Of wOunding u w0-
mans vanity that they rarely remen'-
Der that she may by some possibility
possess grain Of common sense.-Miss
Bnddon.
The senate select committee on wO-
man suffrage has agreed to recommend
for adoption q joint resolution providing
that the right Of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged on account 0fsex.
Miss Anne Whitney, Of Boston, has
CO2l1kD1StSO u V000VSl C180O SV u 8S0VO0 ~
Harriet Martineau, and it will soon be
shipped tn Florence for reproduction In
marble. The work will ctx,t over $12,-
on, and the necessary funds have been
subscribed by the ladies Of Boston.
Furnishing abstracts Of title is q bust
ness to which woman are suited. As
women are allowed to become Notary
Publics in this State. the work OF these
two occupations could be appropriately
combined. In every county seat lady,
thoroughly qualified, could engage in
the Notary Public and abstract business
~ successful as can men, and the field
IL 0pen.-M0nistec Standard.
The forthcoming number of Harper
has clever illustrated article on the
Zuni Indians and their homes. The
writer describes the position OF the wo-
men Of the tribe a. singularly happy
and Independent. The Zunis are strict.
" homogeneous and the women own
the houses. When q man mares be
goes to live with his wife, and ifdissat:s-
6ed with him she hes the right to send
him away. Therefore . husband IL
pretty careful to keep i'm his wife's good
graces.
AECSs1eUCOU A1GUyS WIN ON0 0pCuV
many yeaTs ~ . missionary within the
Arctic circle, lectured in Detroit the 9TH
er evening upon his work and the pe0-
pie among whom It has been performed.
"When IN Esquimaux girl marries,"
said the lecturer, ''she cuts the hair of
the top Of her husbands head, rolls 1t
up in . ball and places 1t upon the side Of
her head, cembing her own hair over
It. When his lair has grown again,
she again cuts II of and has . roll for
the other side Of her head. After she
has been married eight or ten years she
has . formidable chignon. Now, will
leave it to you, ladies, whether these
Esquilnaux girls get that custom from
you, or you got 1t from the Esqut-
maux."
A bill just introduced in Parliament
''f0r the protection Of women and chill
dren in England from crimes Of viO-
lence" provides that any male person of
the age Of Is years or upwards who shall
be convicted Of unlawiully beating or
wOunding any female persOn shall. ut
the discretion of the court, be exposed
for any period not exceeding four hours
in public p,llOry, or other similar con-
trivance, erected IN some public place Of
resort In the parish; and during such ex-
posture there shall he exhibited near or
above his head " board or placard set
ting out in legible letters at least two
inches in length the name of the Offend
er, and the words "w0lman beaten" or
"wife-beater," or other words indicss-