Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 2, 14 January 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

English Column.

The Prussians do not seem to be inclined to take "Freiich leave " of France. Soine careful innn has ascertainedthst the average liead cont«ins 130,000 hairs. The ; average niustache contains about 1400. ; Queen Victoria offers a prize of forty pounds, 1 for the best lady'sf»n whieh shall be exhi- ■ bited in the Internat;onal Exhibition of 1871. It must be the work of a female artist. Twenty-five n»aminoth Krupp gui»s are mounted for the bombardinent of Patis. When they b*-gin to cough, Paris wi.ll lenow what it is to have tl»e Kmpp (croup.) Congress re-assembled for the second and last session of the f.»rty-first term Dec. 5. lt will terminote, by constitut»onal liinitation. on the 4th of Alarch next. The President's Annual Messnge was received in both houses, and read. Ci ba. —The Spanish Government has, at : l.ist, accepted the oft tendercd resig(mtion of De Rod;»s, captain general ot Cuba. He will sail for Spain aboutthe 20th Dec. Gen. , Valmaseda takes his plaee temporarily—a ! f.»ct of whieh the Cubans wili undoubtedly be eorly apprized by n repetition of those wanton cruelties whieh have made the name : "of Valmaseda inf.»mous. Onex)f those pleasant little incidents—the hanging of an innocent man by mistake—has occurred in Kentucky. The victim of the . inistake. John Hamilton. protested nll the while that he had committed no murder, but ; the aethorities wouki not *-.ke his word for , it, and the poor tnan hnd to swing. " Cir- | cumstautial evidence" was wli-.it was the | matter. The real murderer lias coulersed | the deed. i Status of Alabama Ci,aims.—lt is claimed ' from Washington that the '• dead loek " in S the Alabama c!aims negotiations still exists, i no action having recently been taken by our ' Government in the mntter, and the British ; Governinent remaining <qually quescent. ! So far as is known our Government adheres j to its fonner pnsition, ns expressed by Secrej tary Fish, and the British Government is i eq<i»lly derfded in its own course. ■ A new Missionarv Brig.—Mr. Paul I Curtis of East Boston, who built the inisī sionary brig Morning Star, whieh was iost : in the Pacific Oeean, is to build a new one ! to take her pl«ce. She will be a complete ! duplicate of thc other. She will be 100 feet } long, 26 feet 6 inches wide and 9 feet 6 | inches deep. All her accommodations will j be arrangrd with special reference to | warm weather. She will have a full poop | 7 feet high, whieh will extend well forward. | a house. for tiie crew, an open topgallant j forecastle, and other apartments suitable for ! a tf hi r size. Sho will be a full-rigged j bf>g, built of onk, copper fastened, and will be sheathed with yellow metal.—Boston Joucnal. ——— j Ths Feejee Islandg.—Frazer's (London) ! Magazine thus anticipates the future of the j Feejeegroup: We have no doubt that the Islands are, as the writer says, everything that is charmiog and desirable, but just at present we are not in the way of outlying dependencoies, EnglaDd's *experience with such j iuxuries is quite sufiicient for us, without j any practicut test on our part of their trouble I and cost. The French have in the Pacific I the Society group of whieh Tahiti is the | pn'neipal island, nominally Wallis and Fu- ■ tana, positively New Caledonia and the New I Hebrides, and the Loyalties are gradually being inc!uded, and will ere long have the j tri-co!or flying over them. Prussia has made | a small advance and purchased the fan»ous | island of Juan Fernacdez from the Chile ] government, and is lookiog about for more. i Ainerica is annexkig several islands in the j West indies, and we shoufd not be Burprised to see her extending her power in the Paeific. Fiji is a terapting morsel, and the little complications between tho American governmeni and the natives point to a time not far distant when the republieao flag will wave over the whele group.