Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IX, Number 50, 10 Kekemapa 1870 — English Column. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

It is found in Gporgia that a row of castor beans planted around a cotton field will protect cotton fron» worms and other destructive insects. New York Custom House officers detected in accepting bribes frorn merchants excuse themselves on the ground that the practice is a time-honored custom ! So is stealing. ln Dr. Wood's Church in Pittsburg. Penn., a young lady interprets the services to a company of twenty deaf mutes. Thev are seated in gallery; and she takes such a position as not to be noticed by the general audience. Nine or ten have been converted. The city of London has 360,000 street lamps, 6,200 polieemen, 400 miles of telegraph wire, and drinks anually 50,000,000 gal!ons of porter and spirits—whieh is 5,000,000 gallons in excess of the water whieh its people drink ! O' From the earliest times the Chinese have excelled in the art of paper-making. The very delicate material whieh is brougl»t from China, and commonly but erroneously termed rice paper, is in reahty but a membrane of the bread fruit tree, obtained bg cutting the stem spirally round the axis, and afterwards fl.ittening it by pressure. P. T. Bamum writes from Sdlt Lake city to the Christian Leader, saying that Amasa M. Lyman will be elected President of the Reformed Mormon Church. He is represented to be a very able man, butone who has been kept by Brigham Young in obscurity in Southern Utah, because he found hiin too liberal. Mr. Barnum regards the movement as a very strong und promising one.

Bishop Kingsley wrote from China that the great obstacle in the wr>y of getting that people into the chnrch arose from the rediculous stories circulated by their priests and te«chers about the desigus of the missionaries; such as their presence prevents rain, produces pestilence and famine ; that they kidnap children, eat them, make opium of their blood, and a thousand otherabsurd and frightful things. Buiter and Ciieese.—The growth of the dairy interests in the United States has been remarknble. In 1860 the entire cheese product of the country was 105,000,000 pounds. ln IS6S, this product had increased to 240,000.000, and in that year the demand exceeded the supply by more than 72,000,000 pour)ds. Last year the value of the entire dairy product of the United States was set down at $400,000,000, whieh was 100,000,000 more than the value of the cotton crop, and 25,000,000 inore than the value of the wheat crop. By*the will of the late Lord Derby his personal property appears to have been nbout £250,000. The present Lord Derby will succeed to a magnificent ineome, whieh he is not in th? least likely to diminish. His habits are of the nost inexpensive kind, and if mblesse did not oblige ®therwise, he would probably prefer living in n eouple of rooms, and dining at a club. He does not inherit his father's fondness for horses, and has late--1 y sold out his st;ible.

Three litlle girls were plnying among the j poppies and snge brush of the back yard. | Two of them were making believe keep' ho»se, a litt!e way apart, as near neighbors | might. At lnst one of them was overhenrd ; saying to the youngest of the 1 ot, " There, j now, Nelly, you go over to Sarah's house | and stop there a little while and talk ns fust as ever you enn, and then you eome b.ick and tell me what she says »bout me, and j then l'll talk about her; arid then you go j and tell her all I s;»y. and then we'll get ns ; mad ns hornets, and won't speak when we ; ineet jnst as our mothers do, you know; and that'll be such fun—won't it?" Peutjvian Bark.—There are two plantations of einehona or Peruvian bark, nt Darjelling, Hindostan, one belonging to the government and the other to an association : and boih, according to the Calcutta English- i matt, have reached "astonishing succes%." j There are 1.000,000 plants in the garden of j the association, some of them sixteen feet i high, nnd the bark sells readily at good j prices. The plunts arc of five varieties:| Calisaya, micrantha, paludiana, officinalis nnd soccimboa. Of the Inst variety there are 953,000 phnts. of the officinalis 16.000, apd 0 f the others smaller numbers. The Englishman says it is probab!e that the eultivation of ipeeneuanha will soon b? eoinmenced. Is it not possible to obtain some of these plants? The einehona is started, we believe, from seed. T«bacco.—No Scnsible person has any doubt concerning the poisonous effects of tobacco. The first effect of it is bad enough, but when we remember that it also creates in the ma joriiy of those who use it an appetite for stimulants still more poisonous, we are astonished that so little care is taken by those who have the education of ouryouth in hand to prevent the formation of this pernicious habit. Young America does not like to berigidly ruled nor controlled with force, but he is amenable to reason in no ordinary degrees. If parents. mothers especially, would take pains to show their sons wherein the danger of using thispoison lies, weshould have farfewersmokers, chewers of tobacco and drinkers of fuse l oil than we have now. A FTench physician investigated the effect of smoking on certain number of boys, and found that of thirtyelght boys between the ages of nine and fifteen who were ndd:ctrd to srnok;ng, twentyseven pres o oted d'.stinct symptoms of nicotine poison. in twenty-two there were serious disordcrs of circulathetion, indigestiou, dull-

ness of intellect and a roarked appetite for strong drinks. In three there was heart nffection ; in eight, decided deterioration of the biood ; in twelve there was frequent epltoxis; ten had distorbed sleep, and four had uJceration of the mucous meii)brane of the mouth.