Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IX, Number 22, 28 May 1870 — English Column. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

! Foreign News. A Frenchroan iraots to lease Pompeii for a hotel ar«i tbestre, j The most pop«hr churcli in London bas ' • teu rniDUte sermofis. S I A prot-e#tanf «oekly papor appcared in ■ | Cordova t Spain, January lst. ! | The procarin? o( a diTonce is ca?led; coart'iog affer marnage. j The Durober of deafhs io Chicago during I the aiooih of Aiarch »*as 535. * The milk inspector of Boston says.thej milk sold therv is thin f bot healthy. j The A?tor New York, will be turoed into stores when the present lease: expires. ; An Arizona miner latelv fell dovrn a shaft i 125 feet deep t and was only slightly broised. \ There is to be a great prize sho«r of tbe I gladiolia flower in London, on the I7th of? August oext. I A bearded woman died the other day at • Toulouse, France, aged 104 years. She [ had a beard two feet !ong. I A Jeneyman, in reply to the charge that I women ean do no fi?hting in time of war, \ says his wife does nothing else. j Thc lake tunnel at Cleveland has reached i a point 410 ffet frorn shore, and work is 1 progressing at the rate of 10 feet jier day. | The g«ests at a first-class hotel were re-1 cently startied at seeing "miee pie ? ' among; the items of dessert on the biil of fare. I Upward of 30,000 natives perished in the j Island of Zanzibar and on the mainland, i from eholem, in the space of six weeks. j '* Mnple sugar, you know," says the * " is made by grinding{ up maple trecs and squeezing out the juice j in a cheese press." | The wherealiouts of John Smith are now j definitely nscertained. He has been sent to ! the Illinois peni!entiary for five years lor| sneak fhieving. A debafe on fhe qurstion—" if you were fo have a boil where wou!d you have it? M has been settled unanimou?lv, nnd tho decision i was—"on some other fetler." i Cyrus Field is seeking ne\v oceans to conquer; he wanta Congres?ional authority; to lay a cable from San Francisco via the; I Sandvvich L«lauds to China nnd Japan. \ | A iemarkable case of resuscitation is re-1 I ported froin'Montbel!ier, France. A young i j man asphyxiated by charcoal was touched |on fhe soles of iiis feet wifh red hot-iron without avail. Elecfric batteries were then j brought to bear, aml, ufter eight hours of ef!ort, aniination was restored. The newest style for dressing fhe hair is I called " the Cleopatra. M The hair is brushed j high o(T the forehead and braided low in thc j neek, sunnounted hy a large imitation snake, whieh is coiled around the head. A sinart old western lady, being called into court as witness, grew impaticnt at the questions put to her, and told the judge that she would quit the stand. for he \vas " ra\y 1 one of the most inquisitive old gentlemen! she had ever seen." Immersing Under Difficulties.—-The j Baptist church in Paris \vou!d not be allowed ; to immerse their convicts in the Seine, or in puhlie any \vhere. As their plaee o( worship 1 will not admit a baptistry, fhey are obliged, | in baptizing a convert, to bring in a largej Ih>x for the purpose. | Lahwk Legacy.—By a legacy of Miss J Walker to the Episcopal Churchof Scotland j provision is made for building a cathedral in j Edinburgh, at a cost of £40,000, \vith | £1 ? 000 a vear for the pas(or, and «£3OO a ! vear for tnuning young men for the ministry. | The Freemon's Journal, a leadingßoman I Catholic organ in New York, wants the i schools of that church. and all othen?, to j stand independent of State aid. But in ifs j remarks it goes too far, and sho\vs a wish to leave children ignorant and degraded, out of the reach of education. It expresses itself as follows : "The Catholic solution of this muddle about Bible or no Bible in schools, is— hands off! No State taxations or donations | for any schools. You look to vour chi!dren, I and we will look fo ours. \Vr don't want' you to be taxed for Catholic schools. We | aon'i \vant you to be taxed for Protestant or\ for ne/woh. Let the puhlie school I svstem go to \vhere it eame from—the devil. i We \vant Christian schools, and the State ! eannol tell us what Christianity is." ! Cuinesb Ckcrch t San Francisco.—The Rev. Mr. Loomis, the missionary pastor, has introduced a new feature into one of the Sunday services of this eongregation. He invites a clergyman to preach, \vhose sertnons are interpreted, sentence by sentence. to the audience. VVhere so many of the Chiuese are anxious to leam the £nglish !anguage, this nroves an attractive feature. The Mission Ohapel is usual)y filled, often to overflowing, and ]arger sj>ace is ureently deroanded. w 1 The composition of the hair tonics, washes for the eompleiion, and otlier cosmetics, has; just been investigated bv Dr. Chandler,| chemit?t to the New York Board of Health, j nnd has made upon it a teport full of inter-1 esting information. lt appears that nearly I all the so-called hair restoratives eoniain leail | in so!ution, in quantities varying from one to i sixteen grains to the fluid ounee, rendering i them sure and deadly poisons. The lotions for the eompleiion are mostlv free from in- i jurious metals, En«inels fof the skin are composed sometime« of white lead, in whieh ! case they are poisooous» but usualiy of oxide i of zinc, or some oiher whiie subsfance in the form of a powder, mingled with water. The drv powders for the skin are ehalk, carbonate of magnesia, and white clay. h is hfirdly oecessary to add that persons who use these g*«pMati ons0ns do so at gpeat risk to their Piluino.—Ma ke ku ana mai o ka Eiake i ke ahiāhi poeleele aku nei o ka Poaha i hala, ua hoi mai la maluoa ona ka Rev. Ommela H. Kulika, Rev. G. \Villiarason, Kahunapule Bthopa o ka Ekalesia Enelani 0 Hoaolulu nei, ka Rer. G. N. Kalakm, Kakaooleio nui o ka Papa Miaioaan Amenka nana i hoouna mai na kumu Misionart maa 1 keia Pae Aina. 1 holo mai nei oia, e hauoli pu me kakou i ka olioli lubile, oo ka pu. ni ana o ke k»nalimn niakahik».