Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 51, 23 December 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

English Column.

The missionary, bng Mormng Star wns ai A{taiang Āug. IS, ali well. She willhe due in Honoiulu early iu January, 1872. It is said that if you take two letters from rooney there will be but one left. We have • heard of a man who took money from letters • and there wasn't any left. It is saīd that a million and a half of the inh«biUints of Grermany are ab!e toread Enplish. Whether they ean understand what they read the account does not say. Victor Emmanuel has knighted a tinman. Hi? iiame is Giacinto Ottino, and he is described ās being "a man of genius." He invents the shapes for illuinmation—manly cut of tin, whieh support lights and present all of objects, such as eagles, lions,l wāterspouts, crowns, and so 011. This is thought to be the first instance wherein a "caodlestick-malier" has achieved such a distinction. h is estimated that during the last five centuries inore than £50,000,000 worth of real estate has been washed away from the eastern of England by the encroachments of the sea. A number of villages and towns xriiich used to be set down on the old inaps have entirely disappeared. 1« the execution of a recent deed by a «nao and his wife, the wife was taken aside, before the acbnowledgment was made, by the corooaissioner, wlio, in the ulual form, asked. *«Do you execute this deed freely, and without .fear or compulsion of your husband ?" "Fear for my husband!" exclaitned the wife. "l've had five husbands, «ad nerer afraid ofany one of thēm !" Appropriate names : For a printer's wife, Em ; fora wife, Bet-ty ; for a lawyer's wife, Sue ; fora generars wife, Sally ; for a teamsters wife, Carry; for a fisherman's wife, Net-ty; for a shoemaker's wife, Peg-gy; for a carpet-man's wife, MaUle • for an auetioneer's wife, Bid-dy ; lbr a chemist's wife, Ann-Eiira ; for an engineer's wife, Bridg-it; for a farmer's wife, Gerusha. Sir Roderick I. Murchison, President «f tae British Geological and Geographical Socieries, and father-in-law of Dr. Livingst»ne, the traveler, died on Sunday, Oct. 22, at the ag« of seventy-nine years. He had heen for thirty years the leader of geological and geograpbical investigation, and his demise will create a painful void in the world īn whieh hehad moved forso many years.

A magnet has just been completed for Professor Henry Mortoo, for the Stevens Poly-' technic Institute at Hohoken, the weight of whkh is 1600 pounds, about twelve timee heavier than the celebrated magnet of Prof. Heoiy, of tlte Smithsonian. Its lifting force is estimated at between thirty and fifty tons; nearly five times more powerful than that used by Professors Faraday and Tyndall in their faraous experiments. It is now on exhibition at the Fair of ihe Amenean Institute. j Amoßg the «nany pathetic little narratives to whieh the recent disasters of the West have given rise, the following from the Golden Age has deeply touched us: j ••While at a friend's house a few eventngs ago. ve taok{jart in a convereatioo on the sufferiugs of the houseless aod hungry people of Chicago. One of the company was a boy of ten years, who had two hundred dollars in a Bavii)g3 banir. His father said to him, *Fraak, we must all give something to the destitate aad afi3icted raen, women« and ehil' dren o/ that city. Ilow mueh give? Yoa hare some money of your own in the b*nk. Wfeatever you are willing to give, I will eend to-morrow in your name to the Mayor ©f Ohtcago, and tell him that it is from a generous boy in Brooklya, io help keep wann the little feet and hands of the childreo of Chicago." The lad to whom this fatheiiy epeeeh was addressed blusbed a mooieni, thea burst into tears, and out of a beart full of eharity eKclai<ned, 'Father, eend it aU V And the whole two hundred doilars— the sum-total of the boy*« s|oiv savings—was «ent nejt day on its errand of mercy. We happen to know that the boy's father, in oqt these two hundred chīldish doilars, put four hondred into their plaee, And we ttioagbt of .Shakespeare's line, |, M, s»e.qofclity t*ButK 7 ie ttrice blest.»»^