A Boy's Expcj-ic.ioo in Going: to School.
A serious h:ise of disease is that
viiicii attiu ks a 1 y on a day when he
particularly objects to yoinr to school,
lie tells Li mother, wit'i the c nfLlino;
frankness peculiar to youth, that he does
hut feel well this moiuiui;. lie doesn't
know what it is, but he is lame in the
joints, his head nches, and he doesn't
leel a bit fjood. He moves alout slowly;
openly re tu it-s food, looks dejected, neg
ligent, unhappy. Quite frequently he
can be heard to S'gh. But in all his pain
lie never forgets the c!ofk. As time ad
vances to the hour which marks school
time, his symptoms increase, lie doesn't
s-iy a word about school to his mother.
He feels too dreadful, perhaps, to talk of
such things, lie is certainly in a bad
way. His sighs increase as the dreaded
time approaches, aud the physical symp
toms of dec .y become more and more
manifest. But the greatest sulToi iiiir he
tudures mentally. Fifteen minutes of
that time, aad nothing has been said to
him about getting ready. He wants to
believe he is all riglit; because that is
the prompting of hope which is strong in
the youthful breast; but yet he refuses t
believe he is, because he fears that reac
tion of disappointment. Every time he
hears his mother's voice he is startled,
and every time he detects her looking to
ward him he feels his heart sink within
him. It is a hard thing, indeed, to ap
pear outwardly languid, li.-tless and
drooping when inwardly one is a, roaring
furuace of agony. Bathe does it, and
noes u nuimraoiy. it now lacKS nve
minutes of the quarter. Still she says
nothing. His nervousness is almost
maddening. Four minutes, three min
utes, two minutes. One minute. Still
she makes no sign. Will his reason for
sake him?
It is the quarter. Now he should
start, according to custom. Oiie would
think he had every encouragement now,
but he knows that at even live minutes
later lie can make school by hurrying.
The agony of the suspense becomes ex
quisite. He trembles all over aud he
cannot help it. His hair is moist with
perspiration. It seems as if he would
give up everything and sink into the
grave if he could but know the result.
How slowly the clock moves. It stares
at him with exasperating stoniness. The
ten minutes are reached. He breathes
easier. Not a word has been said to
him about school. His mother sees that
he is too ill to g and she sympathizes
with him. Heaven bless her. DM ever
a boy have such a noble, good mother as
this! Visions of sunny fields and shady
woods and running streams unfold be
fore him. stirring the very depths of his
soul, and lilliug his eyes with tears of
Great Guns.
General Bennett, the Chief of Ord
nance, in his annual report, recommend. a
large ir.crease of appropriations for the
use of the Ordnance Department for the
li-cal year, over those of the previous year,
lie sa5s: ''The limited appropriations
made by Congress, much below the esti
mates submitted by tlm bureau, have,
in many instances, prevented the supply
ing of the army on the frontier with that
superior qual'ty of ordnance store, which
tne nature of such service demands, and
in the attempt to utilize the material re
maining on hand from the late war, every
care, and effort has been exercised in its
selection and preparation to meet the
wants of troops, but with more or less
dissatisfaction inseparable from the use
of old material and obsolete patterns.
Explanations to this eSTect have had to be
made to the Olivers iu command of troops
in defence of the action of this Depurt-
A Smart Little Rooster.
"You remember what you promised,
my lads? no backing out, now!"'
"Yep! we said we'd heard the moral to
a story. But don't mike it mean us."
"Not mean you.' of course I shall.
That's ju.-t what big folks want about
sermous they wa it the minister to make
a snug fit for somebody else. But my
morals always go right to the mark, like
au Indian's arrow." '
"Oh! teil us 'bout an Injun!''
"Not any, my boy, there are no morals
about the Indians so the traders say.
I will tell you about the smnt little
rooster."
Oice there was an old hen who had a
nice brood of young chickens seven
tiny little fellows, who w ere n.,tbig enough
to wear "feathers, but had soft, yellow
down all over 'em. Tiieir eyes were
bright as betd and always closed at
early bedtime; their pink bills never
ment, where the responsibility for limit- opened except to let out a peep-peep, or
ed appropriations cannot rest."
The report reconjmeuds the retention
of the Benccia Arsenal, on the Pacific;
Ilock Island Arsenal, in the Mississippi
Valley; the National Armory, at Spring
field, .Mass.; the Frankfurt Arsenal, Penn
sylvania; and the erection of au arsenal
in the vicinity of New Yoik out of the
proceeds of those not required. The Al
leghany, Watervliet, NVateitown and
Washington ArsenaU should be sold.
The Indianapolis, Kennebec, Fort Monroe,
Augusta and San Antonio Arsenals should
be ret tine. I as places of deposit, repair
and isue.
Up.m the subject of small arms, Gen.
Bennett says that he deems it of the most
vital importance that the manufacture of
arms be steadily continued, in quantities
sufficient to render a gradual accumula
tion of them in store a certainty. That
a better arm than the Springfield may
some day be invented is not at all im
probable, and the magazine gun will no
doubt be the arm of the future, but until
such an arm, suitable for the military ser-
let in a bug or something else nice to eat,
and their little leis went trotting around
after the hen all day long. They never
had to be called twice tocome straight to
bed, but snuggled under their mamma's
feathers as quick as she called; and they
never kicked oil the clothes, nor played
circus, nor tore the bed to pieces, nor
ouarreled. nor auvthinir. Aud when
she'd clucked 'em one story about a hawk
and another about a weasel, they never
teased her for one more about a funny old
torn turkey who swelled up till he bu'st,
trying to look as big as he felt. And iu
the morning they didn't snoozle way past
the second bell, and only got up when
they heard there was pancakes and maple
syrup for breakfast. They were a very
nicely behaved family of chickens, you'd
better believe. .
But as they grew up a little, and got
about to the pin-feather age, one of them
he was a young rooster came to think
he Knew more than his mother. Did vou
ever hear of such a thing? a chicken
only two months old s'posing he knew
i rl i .' I lined
"John"
Like a great shock the beautiful pict
ures fall away and he is shot from the
pinnacle of hope into the abyss of de
spair. There is no mistaking the voice.
"Mercy sakes! here you are not ready
for school. Come, start your boots."
"I do not feel well enouirh to r to
school," he whines, hardly realizing the
dreadful change that has come upon him
with such blighting force and swiftness.
"I guess you ain't dying quite," is the
heartless reply. "And if you ain't at
school you will go galloping over the
neighborhood. Hurry, I tell you "
"Hut it is almost 9 o'clock, aud I'll be
late," he protests in desperation
"Late," &he repeats, looking at the
clock. "You have plenty of time. The
clock is nearly a quarter of an hour fast.'
Merciful heavens! He goes down be
fore the terrible blo.v in a flash. A quar
ter of au hour fast! Bleeding at every
pore of his heart, stunned by a shock
which was as terrible as unexpected, he
crawls inside of his iacket and under his
h it, and starts on his way in a dazed
manner that is pitiful to behold. JJai-
lury Neics.
OldLkatiiek Made Into New. On
old-.used leather, says a Scotch paper.
there have beeu various schemes of utili
zation. I5y dissolving the leather by
steam and certain acids, it is possible to
produce printing rollers for cotton fab
rics: but it seems tuetorabie to cut me
leather in pieces, mix them with a ce
menting liquid, and then squeeze tin
whole into a mass of different thicknesses,
accordiug to the process required, sucii
as material tor making up the soles an.i
heels of boots and shoes. With a quauti
ty of paste and the force of a steam en
gine, shreds are made to assume the ap
pearance of cakes of leather technically,
pancakes or pasted stock which are
largely used in the wholesale shoe man
ufacture of Massachusetts. There is
another method in that country of using
up shaviugs and scraps of leather. These
are ground to a powder resembling coarse
snuff, and this powder is then mixed
with certain gnms and other substances
so thoroughly that the whole m iss be-
comes a kiiui oi nieueu leatner. in a
short time this dries a little, and is
rolled out to the desired thickness, per
liips one-tweiitn ot an men; it is now
quite solid, and is said to be entirely wa
terpro t. lucre are various processes
patented for melting down leather waste
a;:d preducmg large sheets ot artificial
leather, posses-ing waterproof qualities,
but we have not space to go into account
of them
militia of the country is represented un
der the head of "armameut of fortifica
tions." Au estimate of $9.jO,000 is sub
mitted for the next fiscal year.
The conversion of smooth-bore guns
into ethcient eisrht-inch rilles has
progressed satisfactorily. The coiled
wrouinit-irou tubes, used in the comer
iou, have been imported, but a trial of a
gun with a tube of domestic manufacture
lias given the best results, and proved
conclusively that our product is equal to
the imported. Notwithstanding the
large experience in such work iu Eng
land s shop, dependence can now be
placed on the private enterprise and skill
ot our own people lor the tubes tor eight
inch rules, and in the preparation ot guns
ot that nature aud material our la
bor and machinery will meet all require
inents. The eig!it-inch t itle, with Ameri
can tubes, has successfully stood 500
rounds with battering charges, and re
mains in serviceable condition, up to date".
1 nree guns of this class have been tested
with the most satisfactory result two
eight-ir.ch and one of nine-inch calibre-
all converted from ten-inch smooth bores.
Thoroughbred Percheron Horses.
The second shipment of this celebrated
race of horses to this Coast by Mr. Sackrider
is now upon exhibition sit the Record Sta
bles, on Market street, opposite Seventh,
San Francisco, and is composed of six beau
tiful stallions, ranging from l.OOi) to '2,000
lbs. in weight. It' might be inferred from
their weight that thev'are unsuitable for any
but draft purposes. This is not the case, but
upon the contrary they are tine travellers,
eteppimr oil' at a" lively gait, some of them
eoinr in four minutes, and standing up un
der a rapid and lon.j continued travel luiiy
cuual to horses of lighter build. Don't fail
to see them when you visit the city.
Wood's Museum
evidently destined to become one of the
attractions of San Francisco. Although but
recently opened to the public it is taking
immensely, as well it may, with its wonder
ful collection of relies from all parts of the
world. An inspection of the skeleton of one
of that extinct race, the Mastodon, is alone
worth the price of admission. To the young
especially we commend the Museum as a
resort not to be omitted from the list of
places to he visited while in the city. To the
lover of the wonderful and the curious iu
both nature and art, a visit will be an event
to be remembered.
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Orders solicited and promptly filled. Ail size and
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Land Owners Without Patents
Should enclose 3 with their receipts to Col.
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Washington, D. C, and receive their Land
Patents.
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Philadelphia, announces his discovery for
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All affections of the bladder and kidneys,
diahctes, gravel and Briifhl's disease are
speedily eradicated by Kearney's Extract
liiciif. It has no equal iu .Materia Mediea.
Sold by druggists everywhere.
A 'Cuke for rheumatism, simple, but pene
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relict, is 1 rapper s Indian Oil. bold every,
where, at fifty cents per patent flask..
MORSE'S 1'ALACK OK ART, 417 idONlOOMKRY
tit., San Kranr.iseo.
vice, lias ieen liertected and approve;!, a mor'n a hen who was seven or eiirht vears
. ... . . I- A- .1 - , - I . . . O -
reserve stocs oi opringnetus is -a neces- obi:
sltT- Xone of them saw very much of their
1 lie necessity tor an increase of the ap- father; lie was busy daytimes finding
propriation for arming and equipping the corn, and making a greater fuss about a
sin'le kernel than the mamma-hen uiu
niiout a whole ear. Jiesules. he had a
;reat deal of running around without
troinir anywhere to a . and lots of crow
ing to attend to, and caucuses and clubs
to run after, ami he couldn't be bothered
with chickens.
But this voung rooster got into lots of
trouble by thiuking he knew so much.
One day the old hen called very loud and
mam, ruffled out the feathers straight on
her neck, aud spread her wings so that
every chick scampered under them except
the smart little rooster, lie he ml the
alarm, but said he'd come ''iu a minute,"
and went on picking up ine.d. Just then
a big hawk swooped down on him, and
would have carried him oil" for his din
ner if the farmer's boy hadn't been there
and driven the hawk away with his bow
and arrow. Another time a chicken-eating
cat almost nabbed him, under the
barn, where his mother had told him not
to go. And one day when it was rainy
and col-J he wouldn't stay with the rest
under the shed, w here it was dry ami
warm, but kept going out into the wet
grass looking for gras.ihoppei s that were
too cold to jump away. He had just he-
gun to learn to crow, ar.d the next morn
ing aoout nve ociock a strange noise
started up every hen aud chicken in the
coop. It seemed to say: " L r-a-ur-u-r-
r-h !" but was so coarse and croaky that
it sounded like a big bullfrog with 41 sore
throat, and a boy with the croup, and a
crow with a slip noose around his neck.
all 111 iking a noise together. "What do
you suppose it was?"
"I dunuo."
"It w:u the smart young rooster, crow
ing! iicignt ins teet wet the day be
fore, and caught an awful cold, and when
he crowed it just scared every chick out
of the coop. Aud he didn't know his
own voice, it was so hoarse and broken.
Of course he didn't have any licorice, nor
hoarhound candy, nor balsam, nor wear
any flannel on his ueck; and so he had to
ituff it out the best he could. But a
rooster has a pretty long throat, you
know, and it seemed twice as long as it
was when it was swallowing corn that
day. And all the time he Avas sick he
thought he'd nnud his mother next time.
He forgot sometimes, but he was so much
better behaved that when he got big and
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Bengal in the hot season ; he is fre
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some mines that it frequently requires an
hour to reach the surface after the work
is done: and as the miners, during the
winter months, often descend the shaft
before sunrise, and do not return to the
surface uutil after the suu is set, they
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clioke-damp, which ctiuses death by suf
tocation, ami the ternhlr explosions of fnt they put linn in a nice chickeu-pie tor
h'-e-Uitiiip. And to these sources or ncci- Christmas, w here all irood chickens ro.
lent must be addel the caviiicr in or fil
lino- of any portion of the roof or sides of
the mine. Many accidents are c insed by
the carelessness of miners themselves.
;rovn fool-hardy in the constaut presence
of a terrible dantrer. Thev will some
times op-n their safety-lamp-?, to .see bet
ter or to lmht a pipe, well knowing that
the consequence of their action may bean
yvniAN Schools. In Syria the bnstina-
do is the common form ot punishment
The culprit lies down not willingly
but because he must and the ollieer
takes a stick with a cord tied to it, and
twists the cord around the ankles ot the
man as tilit as possible. He then, witli
a heavy rod, beats the soles of the vie
tun s teet until he is black in the lace
with screaming and pain. It may inter
est those scholars who complain of the
seventy of American schools to know
mat tue bastinado is oiten innicted in
Syrian schools. When the American
missionaries lirst started their schools" in
Syiia, the native teachers would frequent
iy use tue b.istiuado. I lie missionaries
forbade its use, but the bovs were so un
ruly, and used such bud language to each
other cursing is a natural vice in the
East that the teachers often reported
to the national punishment. A visitor
iiicauen at one ot these schools, was
invited t d hear the boys recite. After
they had cone through the lesson, the
teacher offered to whip the school, from
me oiggesi ooy to the smallest, to show-
how well he governed.
It is in the minute circumstances of
man s conduct that we are to inquire for
his real character. In these he is under
the influence of his natural disposition
and acts from himself: while in his more
open and important actions he may be
drawn by public opinion, and many oth
er external motives, from that bia
whic'a his disposition would.havejtaken.
Exemption from care is not happiness;
cm the contrary, a certain degree of care
li essential to prora' te enjoyment.
Moral
"Oil, you needn't make up any moral
-it's all mixed up in the story, and I
don't believe it, either. Tell us about
some buffaloes or Injuns."
Excellent Interest Hulks. For
finding the interest on any principal for
any number of days. The answer iu each
explosion, involving the destruction of case being in cents, separate the two right
many lives beside their own. In former hand figures or the answer to express it
tunes uik suiienmrs ot taitriis 1 miners
were terrible; but of late their comfort
has received some attention. Tim minei
are ventilated as thoroughly as possible;
barracks are provided for the miners to
change their under-'Tound clothes, and
arrangements are in some cases made for
drying those which have become wet
during work. O.vners of mines are pro
hibited troru employing women and chil-
uen in the under-ground work; and no
person urm -r the aire of eighteen is to be
employed at the entrance of any mine, to
nave cnarge ot the steam-engine, or wind
lass, or other machinery for letting down
or bringing up the men. Inspectors are
inqjuiu.e.i tor tne express purpose of visit
ing mines anu seeing that the statutes
are complied with. Uut, notwithstand-
,US nice precautious, accidents of
v;irious Kinus are continually happening,
mil innjien, so long as mines exist.
in dollars and cents:
Four per cent. Multiply by the num
ber of days, and divide by 72.
Six per cent. Multiply by the number
of days; separate the right hand figure,
and divide bv G.
Eight per cent. Multiply by the num
ber of days, and divide by -to.
rsnie per cent. Multiply by the num
ber of days; separate the light hand fig
ure, and divide by 4.
Ten percent. Multiply by the number
of days, and divide by (Jo.
Twelve oer cent. Multiply by the
number of days, separate the right hand
figure, aud divide bv 3.
Fifteen per cent. Multiply by the
number of days, and divide by 24.
Eighteen oer cent. Multiply by the
number of days; separate right hand tig
ure, and divide by 2.
Twentv per cent. Multiplv by the
number of days, and divide by 18.
Thr government prosecution of David
lianks, the driver of the engine that ran
over a Chinese lunatic on the railroad
which has recently been opened in China,
nas resulted in an ignominious lailure
The Chinese soldier was seen walking on
the rails toward Shanghai when the en
gine was about'one hundred yards away;
but on the whistle heiiiT sounded he trot
A Witty SMfufiLEit. An American
lady visiting tneads in Canada started
lor Home tne oMut day, and crossiu" the
ou Lawrence river at bt. Vincent the
customs olhcer desired to look into her
truulc. blie oU.-red no objection to the
proceeuniff, anu saeinir her so willing
tue uiucci ustveu ner u sue tiau anvthiuo-
: I : i... J . o
in iici nu'iiv ucsiues wearing apparel. A
prompt negative came from the fair trav
euei. iui aii3ci was scarcely uttered. u huh stood near the rails. Ihe evi
however, before the officer had the trunk deuce was that he was perfectly safe, and
opened, ana there, lying at the very top there was no necessity for stopping the
of her dresses and lingerie were a doz-.-n train. Iustead of keeniuo- out of damrer
bottles of Hennessey brandy. 4'Do you he deliberately returned to the track and
can tnese weirmg apparel,' ' queried the ws run over and killed. The British
officer, his eyes meanwhile restitir on the Minister at once instituted criminal oro
bo:t!es. "You may call them what you ceediugs against the engine driver, seam-
pieae, sam me rosy-coeesed lady, "but miy to impress unon the Chinese oublic
my husband uses 'em f.r uight caps !' " the fact that An 'lo S ixon iustice has a
nr-i. - ...u n - . i : - .- . J .. .
xue umtcr sm wie articles on ac- "'""uinaiin eve. The local luutre u is
a- i i ,T- .. I ; .. a. jo
count oi uer reauy wir. natettown Ues-
patch.
The -world is a looking srlass, and gives
back to every man the reflection of his
own face. Frown at it and it will in turn
look surly upon you; lauh at it and
wun ii, ana it is a jolly, Kind com
panion. Thackeray.
l'ai t .es Oesirous of entering into a tlrt-cla buxineKS
areinvltei to inve&ti:ite. So Atii-tux utei nuulu.
IJi.x ilTLS. F.. t:al.
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IHTERii ATlOri AL HOTEL.
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St. Nicholas it full of the choicest thing. The
publication it, in all retpectx, the bent of Us kind.
We have necer yet seen a number that was nut sur
prisingly good." The Churchman, Hartford. Coiiu.
ST. NICHOLAS for IS77,
Which opens with November, 1S',6, begins
A Shout and VkktK.ntkktaixixoSkriai.fbom
the French, "The Kingdom of the Greedy," a
Story Adapted to the Thanksgiving Season.
Another serial, of absorbing interest to boys,
"HIS OVN MASTER,"
By J. T. Trowbridge,
author of the. "Jack Hazard Stories," begin. In the
Christmas Holiday Number.
Besides serial stories, Christinas stories, lively
sketches, poems and pictures for the holidays, and
some nstoiiihhiug illustrations of Oriental spoits, with
drawings by Siaiiiew; artists, XII K III ItlSTiAN
HOLIDAY M J1KKU Ol' T. M( IIOI.-
A, superbly illustrated, contains a very interest
ing paper,
"THE BOYS OF IIY BOYHOOD"
By William Cullex Bryant;
"The Horse Hotel," a lively article, by Charles A.
Barnard, splendidly illustrated; "The Clock in the
Sky," by liichard A. Proctor; "A Christinas I'lay for
Homes or Sunday -schools," by Dr. F.ggleston; "The
1'cterkius' Christina Tree." bv Lucr.-Ma P Hale-
Poetry and Carols of Winter." by Lucy Larcom.wlth
pictures.
Do Not Pail to Buy St. Nicholas
for the Christmas Holidays.
Ouring the year there will be interesting papers for
boys, by William 4'ullen Itryant, John J.
V!:lltler, Tliomta IIuglit-H, William
ilouitt, Ir. Holland, t.rul'sr UarOou-
alU, Miuifuril It. Hunt, Frank It. Mark,
ton, and others.
There will be stories, sketches, and poems, of tpecial
interest to girls, by SlarrieC Prrsruit Sif-
wrl, Hunan 'ooli(lc, Karah llinler
lienors. Klixil-tH Stuart IlieliH,
I.ouixit Alc-ott, I.ii-i-et i:t I. Hale, tflia
TIkhIit, Mary Iaiirt IoI-, and many
others. There will be also
" TWELVE SKY 1ICTDKES,"
By Prof. Proctor, the Astronomer,
with maps, showing "The Stars of Each Mouth,"
which will be likely tu surpass in interest any series
on popular science recently given to the public.
, 31 1'SEJIKSiT A -X 1 I X STlt I'l'TI OX, with
' ' A X 1'KOi.lC, ami V IX A X I HIS-
will be mingled as heretofore, and St. Nich
olas will continue to delight tho young and give
ileasure to the old.
THE LCNE02T LITESAEY WOELB says:
" There is ?io magazine for the young that can be
S'lid to equal this choice production of Scribner's
prrss. Alt the articles, whether in u, oe or rhyme.
ure throbbing uilh vitality. The liter-
uture and artistic illustrations are both superb."
The London Daily News says: " We uish ire could
point out its equal in our own periodical litera
ture."
GOOD NEWS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
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to J.i each. The three volumes, in au elegant library-
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Blve their children a complete set. These volumes
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