Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 40, 7 October 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

English Column.

Grant will not go to California this year. A Loodon dispatcb saya John Slidell is dead.

The Rev. Newuian Hall says the churches of the Unifed Kingdom have lost notless than 300,000 members by the vice of intemperanee during the past three years. A yoangmanliving in Lafayette, Indiana, is homility p«rsonified. The other day he asVed a young lady if he might be allowed the pririlege of going home with her, and was indigantly refused; upon whieh he inquired, very humbly, if she would permit hini to sit on the fence and see her go by. The lion and lamb have no excuse for not lying down together any more. At Woonsodcgt, the other morning, a cat, ciomiciled in ratore, was found carefully nursing three tū||ns and it young rat. The kittens threugh the day were removed, but the cat continued her mother!y offices to the rat, and when the foundling was able to walk led it out wiih her own progeny, showing no partiality, as becomes a proper parent. There is a sharp riF»lry just now io Alabama among different guano dealers. One of them, by way of showing the superiority of his guano over any other, snys that a fanner rccently put a sample of it into his pocket, in whieh there ,happened to be a carpet taclf, and started home on horseback. Before reaching. his house his steed broke down, and the farmer was at n loss to discover the cause until he fōund that tho carp?t tacb had grown to be a long bar of railway iron. The great tunnel through the Sierra Nevada is to be 5 miles !ong, 19 feet high, and 21 feet wide. Its cost is to be 515,000,000. The contr»ctor for the work, 001. von Schmidt, is an engineer of some renown, whose princip»l works in this coontry havc 6een the excavation of the f«mous San Francisco Dry Dock, blasted in a ledge of solid rock, and the demolition of Blossom Rock, San Francisco Bay, by submarine ezcavation and brasting. The Sierra tunnel will permit the passage of the ,Central Pacific Railro»d track and a eanal to supply San Francisco with waterfrom Lalle Tahoe.

Vankee Ezaggeiiatiox.—According to the Aew York Tribune, the entire Presbyterian Church of ScotJand is profoundly &gitated or<»rthe question of the salvation of the Devil. Part of the Presbyterians, it believe that he ean be saved, but the majority regard this as rank heresy, and denouoce the holders of the doctrine as the worst of atheists. "The Scotch preachers," adds the Tribune, "in their theological vehemeace on this sub]ect, seem to consider the sa!vation of the human race compared to the salvation of oi very little eonseqaence." We need scarcely say that the imagination of our contemporary has magnifi?d a very «oiall loeal dispute into ©olossa 1 dimensions thoroughly American.—Londvn We(Aly Review.

Old Shoes.—You prōbably, think that ifj you Jook very sharply at an old shoe, when you ihrow it away, that you wiil know it agaio if it erer comes back'to you. But that aoes not at all follow. One of these days }*ou may botton your dress with an oFd pair of sjippers, comb your faair with a boot, or fTasp & cast off gaiter while you eat your dinner. You don't see how this ean be?— WelL, we*ll tell you. 01d shoes are turned to account by maaufactures in the foHowjng mtnner: They are cut into very small f>ieces, and kept for & eouple of days iu chloride of sulphur. The effect of this to make the leather hard and brittle. Next, the material is withdrawn from the action of the chloride of sulphur, washed with w»ter and dried. When tboroughly dried, »t is gTound to powder, and mixed with some sahstance like glue or guni, that causes it to adhere together. It ie then passed into nould and shaped into bottone, combi% tuife-handles, etc. So you eee how it may «wne to. pas3 that you will comb your hair w.ih a boot, and fastened your clothes with a «lippee.