Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 48, 2 December 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

English Column.

The New \ r ork Tr:bune aeks a eonuv»dmm; M W is the largest room in the citv of New Y©rk? Answer.—VThe room for improvement at the citv hall." -Large Fleece.—The Agricuītural Departineot at Washington is exercised over a remarkab(e flefeceofw<>ol, grown ioiCalifomia. weighing seventy-eight and a half'.pounds. It is assertēd that many of the" Koman Catholic mona§tic orders are about to leave Rome and -go to England and America, where they propose to found convents. Late adviees trom the Cape ōf Good Hope etifect that diamonds continue to be ~ found in great ,numbers in the fields at the nortfi, and the rosh to the <diggings and excitement over dis<;ovenes sgem unabated. "I was a HttleFrench girl," said a j ten-years-old. "Why?" asked her mamma. i "Because then I should know two langu »ges.!' ; "How so?" "Why you know that I ean : speak English 'now, and French would make two." From Siam oomes the .weleome news that the Kiag h*s orderēd the perpetual tibo[itiari( ofsla*rery in his deminions after v the lst <ciay j of January>lB72 v A direct tax is tobej Jaid io order to rerounerate thē former own-! ers of tbe freedmen. j The congress of the ilnternationpl societies j began in Loadon in October. iDelegates froai Italv\ from Spaio, France, JBelgium, Gennany and- Switzerland were present. Karl JMarx presided. The object of the meeting is to arrange for immediate action. 44 Dariog the thunder-storm whieh burst otcf. P«ris ōn Monday eveoing. Sept 6," says the Joumal de Paris, "theelectric fluid strack the newlyarnved elephant in the Jardia des Plantes, and killed it instantaneoaslv/ T A litUe girl eame intoa house one day, and some apple parings lay on a plate on the ; table. Afiersitlingawhile,she said: Ismell apples! 44 Yes," I replied, "I guess you smell j those apple-paringsbn the platp." "No no ?'» said she, 4 ''ta!n't them I smell; 1 smell whole apples." n

M.exico.—Tbe city of Mexico has been| the sceoe of a sanguināry insurrection. At 2 o'eioek p. m., oq the 2d Oct, a corps.of! geusdarmes and part of the 13th regiment of I cavalry, numbering in all 400 men, surprised| the citadel, and fortified themselves therein I by the aidof 800 prisoners whom they had released from the Belen jail. The leaders of the revolt were Gens. Negrete, Toledo, and Echayarria. The remainder of the city garrison proved loyal, and under coromand of Gens. Rocha, Alatorre, Alejendro~Garcia, promtly attackeu the insurgents, and at midnight the national troops under Gen. Rocha canied the citadel by assault. The four leaders of the revolthad left before the attack and escaped. Indiscriminate slaughter followed the fallx)f the citadel. All the officers and sergeants of the insurgents force were killed, and also the ringleaders i ol the released prisoners. | Tho*as Jefferson's Ten Rdlks.—The ; following have heen often printed, but they i will bear being printed often again., Eaeh new generation of boys and girls will do well to read them often, and, what is still ; betier, to pat in prjctice the wisdom here ; recommeoded. 1. Never pnt off till to-morrow what you ean do to-day. ,2. Never trouble another for what you ean do yourself, . 3- Never spend yourmoney before you b&ve it ! 4. Never bay what you do not want be- : cause it is eheap. o. Pride costs us more thau hunger, thirst, aod cold. 6. We selddm repent of having eaten too iittk. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do ! ; williQgiy. S. How mueh pain the evils have cost us ; th»t nev«>r have happened. Take things always by the smoQth baodle. 1(1 When angry, count ten before you speak; if very augry, count a hundred.