Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume X, Number 52, 30 December 1871 — Ka Nupepa Kuokoa. English Column. [ARTICLE]

Ka Nupepa Kuokoa.

English Column.

Tiie mr*t precious of al! stones is the grindstane, for it is useful as well as valuable, and that is more than fan be said of the Koh inoor. Four successive and tremendous explosions occurred in Chelse», England, latdy. Thirteen p?rsons were injured, four of whom, it is feared, are in dying condition. Tbe Americaa institution of street railwuys h«s ertended itself to the island of Java. A lioe has just been opened to public use in the city of Batavia. In tbe Hoosac tunnel, 16,000 feet out 0f25,000 are finisbed. Thc? advance ip July and August was nearlj r 1.000 feei, the largest part !n August. Truckee rids itself of crazy people by buyingthem a ticket, placing them on the cars, and wishing thema pleasan< jouruey. A meeting of working-men in New York decided on ageneral strikes m most of the trades throughout the (Jnited States and Canada earJy next spring, and measures we r re adopted for a permanent organization to, <uaintain and reoder it successful. Princess Aliee of Hesse-Darmstadt daughter of Qoeen Victoria, publishes a novel in a Hessian periodical. It is written in theGertnan langaage, and entitled "VVays of Life." It depicts scen«s of social life in the higher classes of Southern Germany. Recent wriiers note a marked religious change going on in Rome. The Bible Society hns apened a on the Corso, and colportars are sellmg the OJd and New Tesiaroents in the streets without interruption. The Scriptures are more and more read by the eommon people, and the imagery ofthe B«ble is takinghold of the public mind. A minister asked a little boy who had been converted, "Does not tbe devil tell you that you are not a Christian ?" Yes, sometimcs." "Well, what doyou say to him?" "I tell him," replied the boy, with something ofj Luther's spirit, M that whether lam a Christiun or not, its none of his bu siness." ' A reside«t of Tangier, in Morocco, writes that African children are drngged nlong the streets there by a Moorish auctioneer, and that the traf!ic in Uuman beings goes on every market-dav in connection with the sale of cattle agricuitural andproduce. Agbicultaral Statistk:s of Gkeat Britain. —The following abstract of agricultural returns of Great Britain for IS7I, has just been published: Wheat. Barley. Oats. Acres. Acres. Acres. 1963 - - 3655,357 2,251,480 2,752,7:>0 1570 - - 2,500,543 2,371,739 2.763 300 1571 - - 3,575 996 2,387,719 2.719,308 LiTe Stoc»c in Great Britain on June 25: Cattle. Sheep. Pigs. 1569 - - 5,313 473 29,538,141 1,930,452 1570 - - 5,403,317 29,397,569 £,171,138 IS7l_- - 5,339332 27 132,59S 2 499.889 The gold and ailver annually produced npon the Pacific coast approxitnates .$BO,090000. Only a iittle more than tweniy years have elapsed since mining was begun for these metals, during whieh time we have extracted and put into circulation something orer $1,200.000,000 of the precious metals. Sir Rod'»rick I. Murchison, president of the British Geological and Geographical Societies, and father-in law of Dr. Livtngstone, the traveller, died on Sunday Oct. 22, at tbe age of seventy-nine years. He had been for thirty years the leader ofgeological ( and geographical investigation, and his de-1 roise will create a painful void in the world in whieh he had moved for so many years. A Rotal Teetotaler.-—The Madrid correspondent of the Loodon Times says that the voung King Amadeus never drink anytbing bat water. Though unpledged, he is a staunch teetotaller. The King rises every day at six, the Queen at seven. Their table is served in a most frugal manner. The King s charities average $17,500 a month, and he bears the whole expense of his present tour through the country, though hitherto the cost of such e*cursions has been defrayed by the StaJte. A Milwaukee boarding-house keeper grīnds her tea to make it gofurther.