Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 31, 5 August 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

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rii'n « iī st c» f dispo>3pf«ovArcignsst!ll ! < i »£T: Prinr« Guat4vu.s V a>a, of Swe<len, C imie d« Clwmbord. IB30; Duke f S ot Brum\vicfc. !S'iO; Comte de I 1S; Dukc Robert «f Parms. 1S59 ; <"»r.;nd Duko Fcrdinand, of Tu«cany. 1860; D i 'k"»' Frnnci<,of Modena. 1860 ; Fmncis II. of Napl?*, 1S6I; ihe widow of Kirig o' 0:h">, of Grepc<\ lt:6*2; Duke Adolphu?, o: NV.«;<au, 1SG7; Empres3 Charlotte, of M-xto, 1SG7; !<?nbe!la, Queen of Spain, 1869 : Nopole- n, 1970. A ?trnn£j minded woman says, "the effem-; n •• tn:in is n weak pou!ti< a e. He is a cross! root beer and g»nger pop, \vith th" rork left oiu. He is a kitten in pantasick monk*y wiih a bl<>nde mousia> he, a pipcr kite i na dead c*lm. He isas h«rm-les«* ns a rent's worth of spruce gum, i ns us"less ns a shirt button wilhnut n rK)tr«>n-hoie, He is as lazy as n breadpill, :i!nl has no more hopethati a lust year*s rasshnpper. He goes through life on tipu>e?!, and dies like Colognc water spilt over r ;p pround. | Whht Sh.all We Eat?—flere are some] uf thc eommon articles of food, snowifig the ainmim oi nutriment con;ained atid the time r- q:i:re«i ior disgestion. | Tiine of digestion. Am't of Nut'mt. Apj>ie*s r.-iw - - - lh 10 pr. ct, i H/ ns boiled - - - 2h 30m 87 pr. ct. t - - • 3h oO.n 20 pr. ct. I l>«oad baked - - - 3h 30m 80 pr. ct. • Hutt«r - - - - 3h 30m 90 pr. ct. L :.hLuiies l>oiled - - 4h 30n\ 7 pr. ct CiiiUinb'<r3 raw 2 pr. ct. !">»•» hoiied - - - i-h OOin 20 rr. ct. Mii\ fr» sh - - - 2h lū ii 8 pr. ct Miinon roasted - - 3h J2m 30 pr. ct. l'ork masted - - • 2h l5in 24 pr. ct. P»«uitry roasted - - 3m 45 n 27 pr. ei. IV.: uoes boiled - - 2h 30m 12 pr. ct. K-ce boiled • • - lu OOm 87 pr* ct. r • • • - • 3h 30m i*6 pr. ct. I urnips fcK»iled - - 2h 30ui 4 pr. ct. Ve:0 riastcd - • - 4h U0m 25 pr. ct. V n>iv)n boUed - - lh 30m 25 pr. ct. 1: c-timated that there are 2,000 Chinese ! borers rmployed on sugar plantation? in Lo'jisiana, obtained chiefly from Californi>i ; «n.la ntuuberof agents have been sent receritiy to Caiifornia, China nnd the West Indt. s to sccure a larger supply of them. The m:tjority oi'the planter« who have tried them \ r lVr thein to uegroes. They nre extremely t m rcga.rd to a precise l"uifilmont of t*!f comiition of their contracts on the part of { t ie;r cmp:oycrs, but the highcr wages paid| : 'ī job work swnet»mes ieads them to btvak j :ii«ir own ob!igntions. Thoy are stow at i ;hcir tasks, but sureandnice. Theirweakpoiut is in plowiug, as they cunnot ma> !isge mules. In this the colored laborers h !\-f a advantagc over thvm, for no one ! ean handle a mule so wellas a negro. But ihe Chinaman cannot understand themnle.| and the muie is quite as mueh puz2ied by! t : ;e Chinamnn. ! A writer in the Pittsburgh Commerciai\ g ves some statistics relativeto thegrazing of| ?!os*u in Texas, whieh showr that the country i run hrgely by cattle kings scarcely less :or.uidabl• than the railroad kings who hold neir courts in New York. There are, he says, in ihe Loue Star St<»te nearly four-mil-1 hon catt!e, one qus»rter of whieh are beeves rcad v for the market. The plains f»n whieh :hose cattle roam contain a hundred and i io*o miUion aces. The to)lowing are a few of tbe ranchmen with theirrespectire herds: Richard K»ng hns a farm on Santa Catrutos Hirer, of 8H32 acres, on whieh he keeps 05,000 cat«le, 20,000 hors*s, 7,630 sheep, and 8,000 goau, and employs 3.000 Mexicans to attend tbem. He sells 10.000 beeves annualiy. A Mr. O Conner owns a linle imture" field oo the San A«toaio Kiver, wnew he graasps 40.000 head of cattle and scīls S75.000 worth eaeh vcar. He eommf!ioed the bus»ness in wuh 1,500 head, and his present eoottnous herds are the res«lt ©f n«tural increase. Anotherpoor man camed Kobidoaux has a ranch ofl42, >40 acres oear tbe mouth of the Kio Grande, h * burrounded oa threesides by water,and *.o īnclose the fourth requittd the buiiding of xhtrtT-on« milea of pliok fence. He has 30,000 head of cattie, beaide an immeos© •niouot of other stock. John Hitscn»aWhose taria iies on the JBra*os Kiver h»s ooU* t 50.000 eaiile, and drivesto roarket »n icsigni6cant squad of 10,000 or so anoualh*.