Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IX, Number 28, 9 July 1870 — English Column. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

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A oipetrifīed oat«/' foi»i kvt »nd e?ghty pouads. has be«c t%b*m from ihe gr\>und ?atr feet belowr the sarfiec, īb Nerada coun?y. Cal?fomw. Ja Berlm there are erght UumJred latniiies wfeo, io spite of the roost zcalous pajrw, eau liad do an<i are rt*odess. Greai e&n» have been matk! by uie magnsh trates to pro*ide ihem «uh places» The Asyium for Hom€kss Fema!es„ whieh has t>eeo freqaeoted tht? month bv 1,475 peraoas, has beeo arraiige<i to recelve 160 women aod chikireo pei nigfeL Hen» is the cnodest iittle arrav of fighti«g n»n whom the Gre«t powers of the contioeot of £urope ihīnk it Decessanr tokeep at preseot on their vvar e?tablishment; Russia. * I£>l.ooo raea; France. 1.123*930; Austna, f 800,000; North German Cooferferation.944.321. The estiraate is made by Herr Koramer, an oinct?r of the Prussian General Stafif, and is said to be from official sounres. A» English paper says ihae ooe oi the novehies oi the season is a summer hat. looking like very good straw, but in real»y s roade of wood shavings,and sold for2j penee.! A hūjhly superior »rtic!e may be had for9J i penee. h is said to be fragi!e; a heavy show"er would reduce it to the consistency ōi bloniug paper, and it \vil[ not stand the sligbiest blow. But in fine \veather it looks $s well as a Panama. A San Francisco correspondent ssi)-s : •* I presume in no city of the United States{im-, less it be in New Orieans) is Sunday so uni-: versally regarded as a ho!iday as in San Francisco. Picnics, yachting jxirties, horse j races. target shootine —anythmg you am ; mention—they have here on Sunday. During the season probab!y not les.< than tu-enty thousand people leave tbe city toattend some such scene of festivity. lr is a |>erfect pmdise here for sinners, and they enjoy it." The San Fmneisco lhilklhu in noting the tact that the bay is full of tiger sharks— a man havin? caught five in a short tiine with a hook and line—thro\vs in the follo\ving advice to small boys who disport themselves in the brine : 4i The larcest of these is five feet lor,g. It is said thut these fish i are very fond of human beings for food, and I usually s\vallo\v their victua!s whole. While the five feet sharks demur to six feet men, as a matter ol convenience, thev are especially fond of three feet and a half and four feet boys, on account of l>oth convenienoe of \ size and delieacv of fibre. Juvenile bathers i should be exceedingly cr.utions until the tiger i sharks go to sea.'' ; A sa!oon-keeper of questionable honesty i went to a lawyer to consult him about eommeneing an action of defnmation agninst a fello\v-to\vnsman. " The scoundrel," said he, fiercely, '* has robbed ine of my chameter ! " 41 Ah, has he? Are you sure of thnt fact'?" : replied the green-satchel gentlemen, quicklv, and in a &arcastic tone. if so, for Heaven's sake let him go ; for it is the luckiest thing that happened to you ! " The felln\v sneaked out of the office like a puppy when a foot is raised against him. Queen Victoria did a very happy thing at the opening of the new building of the Ūniversity of London, 011 \V'ednesday last, It is usunl on such occasions for the Prime

j\linister to fumish a speech. whieh the Queen is expeeted to read Whether the j speech fumished did uot please her Majesty,' or because she has determined to imitate \ General Grant in such matters, when the formal address 011 the part t)f the University had been presented, she simply turned to the vast crowd whieh filled the Burlington Gar- j dens, in whieh the ceremonies were being: held, and said, " f declarethis building to be opened." General Grant i»asn't beat that,; for brevity. j Wherk tiib Gre.at Tkogble Begins.— i Froin a false regard to public opinion, or as j a matter ot convenience, or for the mere , purpose of securing a home and being set- i tled in life, thousands enter into the most ! sacred of human relations, with no such feel-; ings toward eaeh other os will lead them to' " bear and forbear." There is a popular feeling that it is somewhat a disgrace to a \ woman to piss through life uninarried ; and,, shrinking from that obloquy, multitudes marry according to the forms*of law when they are not drawn together by any quahties ; of niind and soul, and there is no true mar-! riage of heart. What wonder, then, that | discontent and misery arise, and a divorce, if not so»ght, is often āeBiTed.—Jlarper*\ Bozm\ j SaPERSTrriON in England.—Witchcraft is | not extinct. An old man in England, nearly | eightv years of age, after imagining or be- • lieving that he had for several years heen • bewitched,or overpowered as he called it. by : one Mary Stevens, undertook by the advice, | as he said, of more than a hundred persons, | to " fetch " the biood of the woman, so that he might overcome her. Embracing a favorable opportunity, he executed his b!oodthirsty design. He did it, however, verv mildly. Having met her in the marketplaee, he suddenly sciatched her arm with a needle and caused it to bked a trifle, but yet enough as he conceived, to fulfill the mysterious law by whieh he was impelled. Disdaining to shed her blood in so ignoble a cause, the woman eomplaineel of him aod he was arrested. He pleaded in excuse for the assault that such had beea the power of the witchery the woman had exerted over him that for five years he had suffered aft?ictions of varioas kinds through her sorrery, sometimes having four diseases upon him at onee, besides losing, in the mean liine, fourteen canaries and fifty goldfinches. He was fined two and sixpence and co«ts. Said a venerable farmer, some eighty years of age to a relative who lately visited him: 44 1 have lived on this farm for half a cen<ury. 1 have no desire to change rav residence as long as ! live on earth. 1 have uo desire to be any richer than I now am. f have vrorshipped ti»e God of my fathers with the same people for more than forty y«trs. During that period I have rarely been absent from thc sanctuary on thc §*bbath, and netper !wt bot one eoinmunion «enaon. I hare nerer been eonfined to my bed by stckness a siagle day. The Wessings of God have been richiy spread arountl loe. aod i nvade up my mind iong ago that it 1 wi«hed 10 be any h*ppier i must havc more rv!h*km."—