Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 19, 13 May 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

English Column.

The shipwrights atid calli'ers of New npd>; foM bave generaliy eoivsMittd to ī€<iu€Ūov\ of w*ges. but ihe rigg" p rs are sranding out| fur the sime Thhl they hare receivcd. ; An ingenious wife c»red her husband ofj snonn£* thus : IShe has a gutta-percha tube| wah t\vo cop-8haped ends ; one she puts over! his nose ci>4 mouth, and the other over his| ear. He coasumes his own noise 4 na a stove { dors its smoke, nnd \vakes up instanter. ! I A drunken man, sprawling on the ground j in Pattersou, the other night, nnxiouslyi wanted to know wheather "any body elsp| bad been stuck by that—earthquaUe." | A daiidy in New Y"ork is in a fix. Hia | pants were made sotight for hirnthat he can'tl gft his boots on, and if he puts his boots on 1 first, bf can"t get his pants on. This is a| of genuine distress- I A Halifix gentie;nan wassadly deluded at| a fair the other day. He of!ered n young | ladv ten dollars for a curl froin her head ' His surprise may be imngined when the f young lady promptly cut it off and gave it | to him with a sinile. His further indigna- j tion may be imagined, wheo he learned that | the entire coyering cost only three dollars. | Thus is trusting man over deceived by ap-; pearnces. j Kev. Db. Henry M. Scuddee, who has| gone to Brooklyn, delivered a farewell lecture in San Fraocisco on the evening o( thej 17th March. Beginning his address, hej said : - Twenty-seven years ago a Vankee i girl and i resoiV€d lo make a home. L hnve i beard it said tbat in all such ogreemeots thej i lady takes tbe iuitiative—not veib<tlly, but| in *entle revelation palpnhle to loveis. Mv wifc snd inyself have of»en disputed i tnat point. She says t'ne assertion is groundI lfss nnd inaitcious. And I think she ia richl I n»ade the ndvunce, and was eon*»derabiy frrghtened; bat she helped me bravely through it. Ten branehes lmve npon this fdtnily tree. Found ofī ihein, when they were tender twigs, the an-j gels gcafted upoo those stocks whieh grow! in the Lord's g-irden. The six whieh remain | i are neither silly nor wicked ; so that our home has be«n a success. My best joys have been found in njy home ; nnd therefure ! I thought I coald not do beiter than to say sometning about home." Tbe Seven Mont»s' CoMPAicn.—Thel Kiel Gazette thus reviews the seveu month8'| * Camp>iigu : i I l'i the present war 25 battles have oeen * fooght, their order being—Weissenberg, \V«enh, Spicheren, F»nge, Mari-la-Tour. GrdveIotte, Beaumont, Sedan, Noisseville, | (before Metz), tbe three bittles of Orleans, Amiens. and Brie (before Paris), Beaugency, Bapaume, Vendome, Le Mans, j Belfurt, St. Quernin, and the great sortie hgiinst St. Cloud. At Gravelotte nearly ! haif a miilion of men confronted eaeh other, tīz: 270.000 Germans against 210,000 Frencbman. At Sedan there \vere 210.000 Germans against 150,000 French, and in tbe third battle of Orleans 100.000 or 120,000 GermaT)S agamst 200.000 or 240,000 French. Tne dispanty of numbers was the greatest at Majs-la-Tour and DelTort. ln the former 45,000 Frussians fought from eight a. m. nil foor r. m., at first agflinst 160,000, and by noon against nearly 200,000 French. In the latter nearly 30,000 or 36 000 Prussians and Badeners confronted 90,000 to 120 000 1 French. The three battles before Metz—

Fange, Mars-la-tour and Gravelotte—show ihe iargest losses on both sides, thef loss ®f tbe ger«nans in the second being 600 officers ,and 17,000 men. Of all tbe battles during past century, only the storming of Pian* ehenoi in the battle of Belie Allianee, Brodino, Eylau and Zorodorf ean rank in the same category as the battles before Metz. There have been forty nine engagements, son»e of them resembling battles, and twenty successfoll sieges, incloding Paris, the first stronghold in the world, and Metz and Stn*sbourg, fortresses of the first rank. On- | ly Belfort is at pressent besiegen, while , Bitche is invested and Maubeuge, Givet and Cambrai are masked and watched.