Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 32, 12 August 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

English Column.

> :m* * horrid inan" «iys t!ut in the pre : i- y!> of dr<rssuig youog ladies' imir it is r: \ > t«vl whieh is switch. A Louisvi{!e p-iper reports the forn»at»on of . Club" in thnt city. The ofcijcct of : . v :ub js to dodge their croditorj». "I '■€ Anjcrican Tract Soc»ety reportsthnti : Me r.engrr circ«lates. eaeh month, 164.- ? " J• 'i i»s Child't t*aper, 340,000 copies. ; : īts Bntsckafter (Gennan i\iessenger,) » ' <->'» totalof over 500 000 copies . ! or 6,000,000 a ye-\r. Its reciep(s | ■ '.■ ! ti;<bursemeuts are aboot equ»l—ssoo.-1 t-nch. The Amenean Bible Society ' i> l.>r five years been engaged in resuj>;..y«ni» thc eutire country with Scriptures. i . īhat time nearly 3.000,000 fatnilies have 1 . n vi?itcd, and of 283 000 found desit "v--r have been supplied. lt has •• ied īii the lnst year over 2,000,000 vol« and e.tpended nearly $700 000. Tt»e s ri;;tures are now printed in fifty-eight I*ihrtep liißDs.— Over 40,000 cnnories !r»' bn>ught to An»eric»t every yeur, and proI r i!t;il»ly 10.000 more are raised for the purof sale. The number of hulHnehe» ut robinsand larks annually imported [ r its higti as 600 or 600 to eaeh variety. 1 are fully 3,000 Java sparrows brought ! ) ihe l T uited States by vesse!s from that re- | ;■'.«iii, and fully as many parrots nre yearly I > »1.1 111 New Vork alone. \Vnxbills :»nd other ; ;umutevarietiesare scarce, and seldoin arrive | !u quantities of more lluin 100 or 200 eaeh y<ar. Paroquets and love birds lroin Aus- | tralia ioliow parrots in their relative import--1 .llul'. MAeNnenE of the Sos.—A recent work j i'u nstruiioaiy thus, by a comparison, gives j ii- a vivid id«a of the n»agnitude of the sun : ■ \.vi the reuder consider a terrestial globe, I t ne it«ches in diameter, and search out on | plohe ihe tiny triang»»l«r speck whieh re--1 ;-1-rnis Grcat Britain. Then let him picture ! ti»wn in whieh he lives as represented by ; '' e !ninutc.«t pin-mark that-could possibly ■ i:*ade upo» the speck. He will then i •. : w foru!ed some though but t 1 iu.ide«juate one, of th« enormous dimen- | : iiie oanh s globe. couipared with the sions 1 ; iH* iu whieh hisdaily life is cast. Xow* t I . 1 t\e saine scale, the sun would be repre1 v -':.:ed i>y a globe nbout twice the height of a 1 <«rdinary setting room. A room übout | :ne:i: v-six feet in length, aud heighr, and • tvould be required to contain the i : of the sun , s globe on the soale, « >!>iie the globe representing the earth could | puced in a moilerately large gabilet." | Qv'efn Victoria's Pauaces.—While the j r.*-sjdent ofthe L T uited States h»s 6ut one } : provided for his use by the people, | a:ii a sniary of 525.000 perannum, Queen \ \ ,*:om rt-ceives $300,000, and has seven | whieh are especiallv reserved for * r >o e occupancy, not to ment»on the eon- !: np'.n expenses of her household, whieh a wnt to $1,500,000 per apnum. Four of J ::palaces are in London, »11 situate<l I ihe nmrgin of a grand serics of parfcs

A .;vh rejch from the Tharaes at Westmin:cr io ihe boundaries of London. Kensnigti>:i Palaee, the Queen'3 birtb palaee» is in I :!.♦ euvirons of London. Buckingham pa!* ( a«.v i>: her city residence. St. James Palaee

{uiaee for holding coart, and Whiiehali Paiaee, uhere she occasionaliv girc' olms or l;ear? prayers. Windsor Castle, her farorite resid«ice, is an hotttV ride by railroad from London, and is utaated ia the midst of a park of 2,300 acres on the rirer Thamfs, Balmoral Castle is in Abejdeen* tlure, Scotland, on the rifer Dee. w** B bullt bv Queen Victoria, is of modern architecture, and comprises an area of 30,000 acres of lieh f»rm and piciures<jue mounlaio liDds. Osborae House is on the Isle of W igiit; ihui was aUo boilt by Queen Vic* t<ona, &nd comprises an estate of 500 aeres. Besidtrs, ooe bundred castle? t fortresses and mansions, belonging to the emwn, stand B I ready to open their gates at her will.