Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IX, Number 16, 16 April 1870 — English Column. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

T\vo milk men were fmed $50 eaeh in the court of special sessior.s in New York for putting water ia their milk.

In Czegodin, in Hungary, a giantess of 350 pounds in weight has just been led to the altar.

A Parisian author has translated Shaketpeare's line," Out, briefcandle," into French thus—«• Get out, you £hort candle." The Ames Company, at Chicopee, are filling a contract for a pectiliar adjustable horse shoe—the invention of a Baltimorean—whieh is made to be taken off at nip;ht or when the horse is not being used, and put on as readily when wanted as a pair of boots. The corks of the shoes are also adjustable, and new ones ean be fitted when one set is wom out.

White Labor on Sodthern Plantations. —The St. Mary's (La.,) Planter's Banner \ exposes the fallacy that white men cannotj cndure out-door work in the South. lt s;»ys i that at Lower Cypremort, omidst millions of mosquitoes and flies, and in a hot sun, the breezes broken by the tall timber, ten wliiie men, on Mr. Kcmper's plaee, have made asj elean a crop ns there is in the parish, and ; suffer less from sickness, ihan the same number of ncgroes under similar circurnstances. And more than 200 white men on and in the vicinity of the Teche are this year doing the same kind of work as that organized and encouraged by Mr. Kemper.

Of the 1,095 mountnins in the moon, measured by Beer and Madler, 39 are higher than Monl Biaiic, and 6 are 20,000feet high. The annular (or circular) mountains are highest; Dorfel, near the southern pole, measuring 26,091 feet, or nearly as high as ihe highest peaks of the Himalayas, the loftiest summits of our own globe. And there are also circular caverns, or craters, in our satellite whieli are 24,000 feet dcep! and some are 100 to 130 miles in diameter!

Flyixg To.4n.—A " flying toad," now in Washing»on, was raptured in a seine at Cape Henry a few days since. lt is of most singular conformation, and of beautifully variegated hues, measnring about six inches in length, with a perfectly flat, bony back, eyes wide apart and in the centre of a circle, capacious mouth, and fins as large as wings, about the centre of the bodv on eaeh side.

Still Ahead. — Chicago, with all her faults, is always flrst in the fleld when an industrial movement is on foot. Chinese servants have been ordered for one of the great liotels, and the members of the Etnigration Committee have eaeh entered their names for a supply for their families. The good people of the town are now anxiously uwaiting the first lot.

A Massachusetts paper avers that a contribution \vas recently taken in one of tlic churches in Norihampton, and on the day following, a «nan who is a capitalist, anil counts his property by hundreds ot' thousands, calSed ou one of the church officers to recover part o( his contribution, stating that he made a nii*take and put into tlie box ten cents when he meant to put in five cents! The suspicious eb-ment in the story is that such a inan could 1« so careless. Singular Kesult of Heat.—Froin Arcaehon, France, on the Bay of Biscay, a very singular result of heat is reported, wliieh at one moment threateued to produce a regular j»estilence. The muddy shore near that plaee isat iow water the resort of innumerable eels, whieh bury themselves in the slime till the rHurn of the tide. The excessive heat, by Jrying up the mud, had killeil them in thousaiids, and the sincU of their dead bodies, Mwshed up and down by the tide, was beginning to spread fever in the neighborhood. A large number of fishermen were tlierefor<» engaged to collect them in heaps 011 the beacsi, whenee they were carted inland and burjed. The total amount thus disposed of was over 400 cart loads. Drix£F.ks and non-Drinkers in Ameuica. —An Amenean finds that in the United States of every 300 men do notdrink at all, 100 drink >nodemtely, 50 are occasional drinken?, 25 drink periodically, f u spreeing,") and 3 ire habitual inebriates. To every 178 who drink 3 are confirmed inebriates, 20 are periodrcal and 50 ephemeral drinkers. There i* one confirmed inebriate to every 59£ men. Of 700 women, 600 never drink, 30 taste wine occasionally, 17 taste ardent spirits, JJ6 drink beer regularly, 14 drink spirits periodically, and 3 are habitual inebriates. There is, he declares, 1 female inebriate to every 33A \yomen, for though fe\ver women drink than rnen, more of those who do drink become habit'ial intemperates. The immigration of Chinese nnd Japanese to our Facific border promises to be as important a fact as that of the European on the Atlautic side, and at the same time a more embcrrassing one. The wonderful incursion of the Asiatics—l,2oo of them in the last trip of the Great Republic—disturbs a great manv, who never thought of going to China and īapan, and our announcements of a cosmopolite fraternity would have such results. But we cannot adopt the old exclusive policy of the Japanese and Chinese, and bid those stay away or go away. They will eome ; and our citizens wili, no doubt, get used to thera—with their almond eyes nnd their sallow complexions. Civilization tends to do awev with human amipathies and jealousies of mee, and it is a tendency that our progress\ve people cannot long resisr.—JV. Y. Timcs. Elegance does not make a Home.—l never saw a garment too fine for man or maid ; there was never a chair too good for a cobbler or a cooper, or king to sit in ; nevera house teo fine to shelter the human head. Ttiese e!ements about us, the gorgeous sky, the imperial sun. are not too good for the human race. Elegance fits man. But do we not value these too!s of housekeeping a li£tle more than they aie worth, and sotnetimes mortgage a house for the mahogany *<• would bring into it ? I had rather eat my dinoer o!T of the head of a barrel, or dress after the fasbion of John the Baptist in the wilderuess; or sit on a hloek all my life, than cousume all rayself before f got to a home, and take so inueh pains with theoutside that rhe inside \vas as hollow ns an cn>ptv nut. Beautv is a great thing, but beauty of gar?nent«, house, and furniture is a tawdry <>rnaanenl couipared iritli dotnestic love. All the elegance in thc world (continues Theodore Parker) will not make a home, and I would give you more fnr a spoonful of real hearty love than for whole ship loads of furniture, and all the goigeousness thatalltbe upho!sterers of thc wt»rld could gather.

Divorce in France.—A new monthly paper, entitled the Divorce, is about to be started in Paris with the object of legalizing divorce. The prospectus states that there are not fewer than 45,000 3eparated men and women living in France; that the courts have at the present moment 1,523 demands for separation, and that, moreover, the number of couples separated voluntarily is iminense.