Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 47, 25 November 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

English Column.

A baby who kisses his mother and fights his fjther may be said to be partial to his ma, and mart:al to his pa. A youngster ofliterary tastes lately descnbed Darwin as the one who believed "we degenerated from a monkey." To Restobe Forniture.—An old cabinet maker says the best preparation lor cleaning picture frames and restorsng furniture, especially that somewhat married or scratched, is a mixture of three parts of linseed oil and one part spirits of turpentine. It not only covers the disfigured surface, but restores wood to its orginal color, and leaves a luster upon its surface. Put on with woolen cloth mnd when dry rub with woolen. One of the best temperance sermons ever delivered is this sentence by the late Kev. Samuel J. May : "If it is small sacrifice for you to give up drinking wine, do it for the sake of others; lf it is a great sacrifice, do it for your own sake." : Victor Emmanuel is already planing the reconsruction of Kome. The ancient city is i to be cleared of unsightly excrescences, and : modern Kome is to have widened streets, covered markets, and a thorough overhauling. In fact Rome is to be cleaned and put in complete orderas n civilized Ēuropean capital of the nineteeoth century. Exports. Reliable statistics show that Great Britain last year exported over a bilJion of doJlars, or more than twice as mueh as America; that her commercial tonnage was more than twice as great, while her population is about seven millions less than that of the United States. She levies her entire tariff, whieh is simply for revenue, on some twelve or fifteen articles of import only, and admit every otherproduction duty free. This i country, on the contrary, levies duties on j some 3,000 anicles in eommon use. j Fon at Hone.—Don't be afraid of a little i fun at home, good people. Don't shut up | j*our houses lest the sun should fade your | carpets; and yourhearty laugh should shake down some of the musty cobwebs lhere. I[ you want te ruin your sons, let them think i that all mirth and social enjoyment rnust be • left on the threshold without, when they I eome home at night. When onee a home | is regarded as only a plaee to eat, and drink, ' and sieep in, the work is begun that ends in i gambling-houses and reckless degradations, "Maria," said a lady to a colored servant, "that's the sixth silk dress vou have wom

sīnce you eame to rae; pray, how many do j you own ?" "Only seven, missis ; but I's • savingmy wages to buy anoder!" l 'Seven! | what use are si!k dresses to you ? whv, I | don't own so many as that." u Spect not, j 1 missis," said the smiling darkey, "yon ; dosen't need'em so mueh as I does. You see, you quality folks everybody knows is ; qaalīty; but we better-most kind of cullud \ pussons has to dress smart to distinguish ourselves trom eommon niggers!" "The lsland of St. Helena," writes a correspondent to the London papers, "was visi- ; ted on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of July by i most disastrous floods, caused by incessant heavy rains. They resembled water-spouts. Two lives were lost, and very serious accidents to limbs and property have occured. Five hundred of the inhabitants have been , washed. oat of their homesteads, and most of them have lost everything. Great damage has be«n done to property, both public and private. Our roads are destroyed ; houses are wasbed away or utterly gutted. We | shall have to beg for assistance from with--1 OOL"

! An old negro in the West Indies was very I annoos to leam to read the Bible. He lived | a long way from the missionary's house, and 1 yet lie eame to leam a lesson whenever he | h&d time. lt was sucb hard work, and he | made such little progress,.that the missionary ! got tired, and told him one day that he had ; better giveit up. *'No, massa," said he, wīth great earnestness, 'Mne nebber give it 1 up till me die." And pointing with his finger to the beautiful words whieh he had just spelled out ia John iii., 16, "6od so loved the world," etc.. he said with tears in his eyes, "It's worth all de trouhle, massa to iead dai one verse!"