Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume IX, Number 17, 23 April 1870 — English Column. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

Spcaking; of a fecelit gale in the vicinity \Vhite Nevada,one miner remarked : *• VVhy, a reg'lar typhoid whereupon a comrad£ patroiiiziugly ren»arked to the bjTf?tander?, " He's an ignorant fello\v; he iueans tycoon!" Tbe "Food Journal," published in London, states that a sample of tea sold in that city as fioe green powder tea, on examination proved to be nothing but eoinnion •• caper " Īe4ves, ingeniously faced and rnanipulated. It is rumored that Deweese, the carpetbegger, cadetship seller, frotn North Carolina, will be succeeded in Congress by James Harris, a negro. We trust he will not beso black outside as Deweese was inside. Hydrate of chloral, the new famous medieine for producing sleep, whieh is so greatly in demand that it is utterly impossible to suppiy the trade, is made by passing a currentof dry pure chlorine gas into absolute aleohol until the contents of the flask are converted into hydrate of chloral. The Chemical News contains a paper showing how the spectrum analysis is applicable to detect adulterations in wine, malt liquors, drugs, butter and cheese. Just now the spots on ihe sun are uneommonly large and abundant. A few days ago one could be seeri with a eommon opera-glass properly protected. Very high chimneys, such as two near Glasgo\v, whieh are over 400 feet high, are very apt to get out of perpendicular, under the inlluenee of high wind, before the mortar has time to harden. They are generally f=traightened by repeatedly sawing into the bulging side, and on removing the saw the chimney settles the thickness of the cutting. The Scientific American mentions the case j of a chimney 345 -feet high in Barmen, I Prussia, in whieh the method tried was to replace whole layers of brick by thinner layand allow the chimney to subside. Platinized looking-glasses promise to replaee tho?e at present m use. They are prepared by painting the surface of the glass with a preparation of ch'iorid of platinum and oil of lavender, borate and protoxide of lead, and then baking the glass in furnaces. This puts on a very thin layer of platinum, whieh makes an exccllent and eheap looking-glass when put on a dark background ; but it may also be used for windows, and will allow the light to eome in during the day, but form mirrors when ihe outside blinds are shut at j night. i Califoknia Tea.—We have been expect- j ing tQ get our supply of tea from China over | the Paeilie Railroad, but it seems likely that i • it will not be long necessary for us to send to Cbina for out tea, but \hat we w\\\ get \t from the tea-fields of California. The Japanese colony of tea-growers, who have settled there, have made a very successful beginning in the work of cultivating the plant. The seed-nuts are coining up finely, and the foothill lands are found to be admirably adapted to tbe tea culture. lf this experience be justified by time, and if California prove to be rcally adapted to the growth of first-class tea, the Golden State will derive more weahh from this valuable plant than ever she drew from her mines.

The new illustrated weekly, of London, Tlie Graphic, aunounces that in forthcoining numbers of that paper for the current year, the whole social and out-of-door lii'e of the United States will be pictorially represented by an artist of the highest skill and reputation, who will make a tour of the whole country, reversing the ordinary tour by landiug in San Francisco and corning eastward. The raihvays, the architecture, the theatres, thc churches, the street scenes, the agriculture, the great steamers, the public assemthe freedmen of the Southern States— ai! that makes up American life will be carefu!ly delineated, and in order that nothing of the spirit of the sketches may be lost in the engraving, the artist will draw upon the blocks that are to go into tne engraver's hands. This will irnpart a new and lively inten"st to The Graphic for American subscribers. Educatiox and Literaturf. ik Spain.— Thereare, in Spnin, 27,000 primnry schools, frequented by 1,500,000 children; 6,400 high schools, 10 universities, and 20 technical schools. The Madrid library contains 300,000 volumes ; the Barcelona library 136,000 voluroes. In the archives of Simancas there are 70,2T0 packets of charters and other documents; in the archives of Aleala there are 35,000 packets.coutaining similar MSS., 34,000 in the archives of Aragon, and 97,000 in the archives of national histories. Hogs in Society.—lf you had traveled as maeh as I have for seats, and for the best ones—for bad manners are contagious; if you had traveled as inneh as I have on steamboats and seen how people that are most decorous at home, when the hell rings, and there are to be two tables, rush through the cabins and down Btairs to their meals, vou could appreciate the necessity for a retorm in this manner. But I do not think you need go to steamboats or railway depots to be convinced of this. If you have been invited to fashionable parties, and seen what pigs men make of themselves who are well fed at home ; how they behave at the refreshment table ; how they lose their self-respect, you do not need any further argument on ihis subject—Beecher.

A Pīthy Sermon to Yodng Men.—Yotl are the architects of youro\vn fortunes. Hely upon your.strength of body and soul. Take for your inotto self-reliance, honesty and indusny; for your start, faith, perseverance and pluek, and inscr\be on your banner, " be just anvl fear not." Don't take too mueh adrice; keep at the helm and steeryour own ship. Strike out. Tliink well of yourself. . Fire above tiie mark you mtend to hit. Assurae your position. Don't practice excessive humility; you can't get above your level, vrater don't iun up hill—haul potatoes in a cart over a rough road and the small pota«r»es \viJl go the hottom. Energy, invincible *jetermination, with a right motive, are the Jevers that rule the \vorld. The great art of coaimanding is to take a fair share of the \vork. Civility costs nothing and buys everything. Don't drink; don't smoke; don't swear; don ? t gamble ; don't steal; don't deceire; don't tattle. Be polile ;be generous; be kind. Study hard, play hard. Be in earncst. Be self-reliant. Kead good books. Love your fellow-men as your God ; love your country and obey the laws ; love truth ; love virtue. Ahvays do \vhat your conscience tells yoa to be a duty, and leare flie conse-j qucncei» \vith God. 1