Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 35, 2 September 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

English Column.

Paper is now used fcr the lining of ieerooJers. Gillott, tl»e pen-man, begnn lifeas a scissors grioder. Beet-root brandy is attracting attention in £ngland. . , One thousand emigrants a month are pouring into Oregon. — The inventor ofthe metallic bagage-check made a fortune of $'250,000. St. Loais has forty-eight school-houses, va!ued at S 1,730,000. There wete manufactured in the Unifed States last year offer half a million sewing machines. A lady advertises in the London for ; "an accomplished poodlenurse. Woges £1 per week." The Cincmnati Commercial has abo(it a eoiumn a day of betrothals, elopemenla, marriages, d:vorces and deaths. 4 Kquality," says a French writer, « 4 means a desire to be equnl to your supexiors, and superior to your equals." Boston daily boils 12,000 lobsters. In consideration of the weather, it niight have been 200,000 in thit city alone. Ooe Califunia grape grower has a vineyard valoed at 8250,000. It yields annualiy irom $30,000 to $35,000 worth of grapes. I An inventor has discovered a method of | raanufactared the fibre of the Canada thistle | iiīia cordage, textile fabries and paper. A lady in St. Mark's Plaee advertises for tfae return of a large Mahese cat, called Bessie. It is to be feared she will ha**e to assuage her grief with a sauage. Ao Omaha paper advlses the people "not lo make such a fuss about the shooting of one constable, as there are overforty candidates for the position. A Chicago polieeman poisoned a dog. His master—the dog's—twisted hi3 ear—the policeman's—and now wears his eye—the man doea—in a sliog. "Mr. Smith," said a lawyer to his landlod, "if a man were to give you five handred dollars to keep forhim, and hedied, wtiat would youdo? Would y«u pray for him? «-No, sir," replied Mr. Smith, "IM pray for k anothet 1 like him. A ye«Qg man says that there may tiave l»een such a thing as real, turns love in old- | en tirnes, bat that now the notion is entirely | obsolete; and if -you ask a young lady j now-a-days to share your lot, she immediately wants to know how largte that "lot" ia. It is told of Robert Hall tfaat, being one da}' engaged in a sort of word frolic with some of his eloneal friends, he suddenly saw a certain bilious gentleraan of the cloth apand cried out to his companions : "Let s be serious, boys I' Here comes a fool!" A dergyman was lately depictiag, before u deeply interesting audiance, the alarmin£ increase of intemperance, wKen h« aston--jshed his hearer» by exclaiming: "A young man in my neig-bborho«d dīed very suddenly Sunday while L was preaching the gospfel io a beastly state of intoxication." A little boy and girl had been cautiōned never to take oest-egg when gathering the bot one evening the little girl reach tbe oest fird| seized an egg, and started for the house. Her disappointed bw>Aer folk>wed, crying: "Mot|ier! mother! Susy s he'B been and got the egg the old hen measures by." * Generai Gaines, of lawsuit fame, is n°w 64 years o!d, bat set to work the otber as briskly a« ever in a new lavvsuit. She is now the richest woman in the worid, probably next to Baroness Coutts, and has 2Qlinaited offers of marriage from youth and i bot prefen to remain single. She is | bend on doing good with her tortane, and I aeyeral «xcellent insitutions for woI >