Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 18, 6 May 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

English Column.

The total expenditores in Europe for | ed«ication science and art is raore than $100,000,000 per year. A Lothern clergyman in Pittsburg poi- | soned hiroself the other day because he I could not make up his mind about certain j theological question. ; They say that the wind blows with such force in Colorado, that when a man loses his hat he has to teiegraph to the next stationl to have some one stop it. 1 ; The mother of the Marquis of Lome isj | the Queen's Mistress of the Kobes and one j i of her bosom friends. And that ishowthej | young folks happened to fall in love. j The Roman church was about to inherit| i the property of the late C«rdinal Caracci i ! [says an ltalian correspondent], when a woman, claiming to be his wife, and the ; roother of seven of his children, made her i appearance, established her elaim and se-j cured his large estate. j A London merchant, lately deceased, leftj a legacy of £20 to a Gloucester schoolm}ister I who u once gave him a thrnshing that had : been a lifelong benefit to him!" What millionaires the race of pedagogues now passing away vvould be if all the benevolent i 44 thrashings" they had administered had j operated in Ihe way ! i The la.test Yankee notion is a eheap ' temperance lunch room whieh runs opposi- | tion to the lt free lunches" of the B(iston | drinking saloons. It offers this bill of f»re : Qoff e, 5 cents; soup, 5 cents; tea, 5 cents ; chowder, o cents; pie, 5 cents; bread and butter. 5 cents ; cold ham, 10 cents; cold beef, Jocents; and already has two hundred patrons daily. The cost of the Cubm insurrection to the ; Spanish authorities has beenfar from small. • The £rovernment, since the beginning of the i insurrection, has borrowed $30,000,000 for 1 its \var funds. The number of troops, regu- : lnr nnd volunteer, have amounted to 107,i 000. It is estimated that the losses by disease, desertions, and in the field, figure up • as high as 70,000. A gentleman visiting Mr. Wood's school, Edinburgh, hud a book put in his hand for the purpose of examming a class, The word v'heritance occorring īn the verse, the querist the youngster as follows : *• What is mheritarice ?" " Patrimony." '• What is a patrimony ?" J " Something left by a f»ther." •• What would you eall itif left by a moth- " Matrimony." [er ?" The German Empire.—The new German Empire is to have a population of 38,509.663, exclusive of Alaee and Lorraine, whieh will g«ve it 1,638,548 more, or a total of 40.148.209. This is the largest population of any States of Europe, except Russia. The figures of various States are as follows: European Russia 69,379,500 Gencaa Empire, (with A. and L ) 40,148.209 Fra.nce, (wichout A. and L.) . . 36,428,548 AuBtria-Uungary Monarchy . . 35,943.592 Great Britain and lreland . . . 30,838,210 Italy, with Rome 26,470,000 In London, every eight minutes, night and day, somebody dies; every five minutes a child is born. This great city contains as many people as the whole of Scotland, twice as niany as Denmark, tbree timesas many as Uaeeee and four hundred times as Georgetown, D. C. In its vast population of nearly 4,000,000 it has 140.000 habitual gin-drunkers, 100.000 abandoned women, 10,000 prof-ssional gamblers, 50,000 criminals known to the poliee as thieves and ; receivers of stolen goods« 500,000 habitual ; freqoenters of puhlie hooeea, and 60,000 ! streets Arabs. To keep this vast multitude ! of disorderly chracters in something like I obedience to the law, 6,000 polieeman are necessary. Of the population of the city f only about 500,000 attend public «vorship, there being a million of adult absentees from| church on every Sunday.