From Small Beginnings

Over flfty years ago, a youth, working on a farm, asked hu fat tier to give him money enough to buy a gun. The old man could not spare it, but the boy, noththing daunted,found an old piece of iron about the place and in oourse of time contrived to make a gun barrel out of it, with the very meagre faoilities afforded by a oountry blaoksniith's shop. He had not the materials to make a lock ana stook, so he walked to the nearest town and traded for the necessary attachments, and was encouraged by the smith for having made so good a shooter ; this gave him ambition to make anothur; so he went to putting out grindstones froin the native rock to raise the money for gun materials ; in a short time there was a considerable deraand for guns of his make. During the French war with Prussia, he was called upon to furmsh guns for the army, and in less than eight months he made and delivered to the government of France, rifles of a particular pattern, costing five millions of dollars, which amount was duly paid. The ssme man furniehes rifles now for the United States, South America, Rome, Spain, Egypt, and Japan. The farmer's boy who wanted a gun is Eliphalet Bemington, of Illion, N. Y. His manufactory covers four acres of ground, and he employs twelve hundred men. Not gatisfied with this achievement, he has recently completed a sewing machine, which is reported to represent the latest and most perfect advance in the improvement of this important adjunct of domestic in