Show THE tim Ni oL ARMORY AT the present armory shops employ about three hundred workmen and arid have a forty lorty horse engine the machinery is is all of the most perfect description and executes its work with wonderful celerity and precision probably in in no department parti part ment nent 0 of the mechanic arts aits has the inventive power of the human mind been exerted with remarkable results this is is evident to the visual sense and is 19 rendered equally palpa dalpa ble by the single tingle fact that with the facilities al ready reidy mentioned one complete musket can be turned out every eight minutes of the working day from the raw materials to produce the musket entire two hundred and ninety four machines and nearly fine file hund red distinct processes are involved barrel 1 is ma made de from iron iron costing 00 per ton mostly procured from norway though a very excellent quality is is received from salisbury ct the iron iron is is cut up from bars into pi pieces ces of ten pounds weight and fourteen inches in ie gh after being drawn out to forty inches indies under a high heat the bar is is curved and welded on steel rods the barrel is is bored out and reduced in in weight from ten pound to four and a half balf after which it is is polished with emery on revolving wheels the total valuation of or the properly property of the general government conne connected cled with this armory I 1 is is as follows buildings machinery I 1 now in opera operation tion tools mechanical and shop fixtures 33 total 92 A SCHOOLBOY being asked by the teacher how flow lie he should hould flog him replied lf if yon oi please sir air I 1 should like to have it upon the tile italian system th heavy strokes up vari rIvard varl and thu the io down ones one light |