Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 34, 26 August 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

English Column.

Ba3erfltes have beeo fouod flying at sea, 5.x huodred miies from land. Their buoyacry is great, and the muscular effort of flyiug must be $mall, while ihe wind drives liieni forw«rd rapidly over great distances. Presideut Lineoln was exceedingly astonished one da*y, as he was inspecting the prison īi> Washington, by a prisoner who said to him. »How are ycu Mr. President? lam veij gl»4 to see you. 1 believethat you nnd 1 have been in every-jail in the Union." "Tt»sand ihe jailin Springfield are the only ones 1 was ever in my life," said Mr. Lineoln. "Verf likely.'* said the rogue, "but I've been in all\lre tesu" An Alabarnaeditor havingread Dr. Hall's ; lecture advising tbat husband an&wife should • sleep in separate apartments, says that Dr. ! Heii ean sleep where he chooses, but for himseif he iotenda tosleep where heean defend hk wife against rats and other nocturnal foes, so k»g as be has got one to defend. "Two Memphis editors have been calling eadi other a lot of things, and now both of tiiem have their meals brought to them in the sancrum, for fear if they go out for luneh they may meet eaeh other. When they are obliged togo out for a drink they nre disgTiised so thatno one will know them." j The Pentisylvania Central Railroad Company has earned the name of the Great Corpōnuion, It owns 400 miles of rai!road in tfae siaif» of leases nearly 2,miles of tke railroads located in other sraies, and the stocks, bonds, and funded debt of the property whieh it controls represent an investment ofabout $200,000.000. lts lmes reachirora NeW York, to Baltimore, to the Lakes at Krie, to Chicago, to Cincinnati, to St. Lo<iis, and we believe its energies are at work to control one of the lines to §an " Fraocisco, if indeed such co'ntrol is not ali ready obtaiued. The road is probably the • n»ost powerful moneved corporation in the world. WiUiam of Germany is a direct descendantof the venerable Admirul Coligny, whose gray hairs were dabbled in his own blood at ttie ma«acre ot St. Bartholomew. The follo«ving is the lineage of the Emperor William on the Coligny side: 1. Gaspard de Coligny, Comte de Cbatillon, murdered on St. Bar- : tholomew's Night, Agust 24, 1572. 2. ' Loaise de Coligny, Princess of Orange, wife ;of the Liberator of the Netherland. 3 ; Frederick Henry of Orange, Governor of the j Nethertand. 4. Louise Henrietta of Orange, ' Electress of Brandenburg and vvife of Elector ; Fre<\erick,thejimKingof Pruss\a. 5. Frederic Wiliiam I. 6. Prioce Augustus Willlam, tn*otherof Frederic the Great. 7. Fredenek William 11. 8. Frederick William 111. 9. £mperor William I. The Tailēries was situated in the centre of Paris. In 1342, Pierre des Essarts had a pieasore house, called the Hoteld.es Tuileries because il was buiit in the neighborhood of , s»veral tile-burning works or kilns. Francis I, purchnsed the property for his mother, the Duchtss of Angouleme. Catherine de Med-* ; icis selected it as tbe site nf a new palaee, whieh was begun iu 1566. The original ; baildin£ was subsequently enlarged by Kings I HeDrylv., Louis XIII., Loūis XIV, Nāpoleon L, and Napoleon 111. Louis XIII., was the first King who occupied the palaee. Louis XIV, soon left it for St. Germain. Louis XV, and Louis XVI. hved at Versail* 3es. Ir, 1793, tbe National Convention held its sittmgs in the palace,and Boftaparte took op his Tesidence there as First Consul, Louis Phillipe resided there duriug his Teign, and Louis Napoleon occupied it from j to 1870. The Louvre is a series of ps!aces connected with the Tuileries, the two having a width of 1,008 feet, and a length of half a mile. Uoder their roof are collected itnmense and priceless treasures of art, the «eeamolaiion of centuries: a li6rary of 100,f 000 volumes, quarters of seyeral regiments otroops, besidesall the apartments for the use of īhe officers of tbe government. The Hotel de ViHehasbeen the sc«ne of vtrioos excitements, from 1870 to the pres. ; ent time. The Provisional Governments of 384S and of 1870 were both organized within its walls, and it has been the recognized official centre of all Parisian demonstrations of a revolutionary cbaracter.