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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 197, 9 August 1875, Page 2

Unmarried ladies had a narrow escape of it recently in the House of Commons The second reading of a bill to enable spinsters to vote at Parliamentary elections was re jpcted only by a majority of thirty-fire. One hundred aod eighty-seven of the male per' suasion refuseJ to accord that privilege to their sisters and lady friends, wbJle one hundred and fifty two by their vote showed that they liked the idea, Mr Disraeli voted with the latter History does not record what happened to the former when they went home. Chicago hnd only 4,ooo inhabitants in 1837. 225.000 in 1M57; 268,000 in 1868. In 1870 the decennial census gave 298.977. Jn 187 l' Ikere were 334,0( J inhabitants; and notwith' standing the dread.'al conflagration of that year, there were 364,000 in 1872 In 1873 the Chamber of Commerce of that city reckoned the number at 430,000, and it b™ now reached half a million, A Chicago man was ask. d recently ho* many inhabitai'tn his town contained. " 1 couldn't toll you exactly," he replied, «IV e been away from Chicago for a week." * " Woe to Europe when the Czar of Russia wears a beard! ' cried the exile of St Helena And. lo! the last woe is to be fulfilled- for by imperial ukase all but court officials are allowed tta privilege of wiring a beard and the Czar will coon follow.