The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-21
C INTELLIGENCE,
school CompOsfvtOns.

Carson City bids fair to become the
Athens of the Pacific coast, as it al
ready is of Nevada. There are III at
tendance upon our public schools a
number of little boys and girls, not
more than so-years old. who are adopts
with the pen, and who can write a far
better composition than a proportions
ate number of grown people. Hereto
fore we have published some of the
more striking compositions of the
comic and ludicrous class. and by
burglarizing the school house Friday
night we were enabled to capture a
number of miscellaneous ones. The
author of 'Prettv Girls" a compost
ton published some weeks since, has
one ON The Choice If 4 Subject" in
which. after reciting the difficulties
met with 10y new beginners, he says:
THE happiest subject ever chosen
by the author of this was pretty Girls,
and 10y the extraordinary flow of non
sense that followed the title. | gained
the iIl-will of ali the girls at school. at
home. and everywhere else; and even
MIS- - NtI'l she WAS gong 10 lildkt
Shon find out the perpctrator of the
unfortunate joke and revenge her in
iurie>. | did have a remote intcn-
tion of selecting 'ChinaWomen' a> the
title of my next. but found that my
e might get the better OF my iudg-
ment and make me tell more than
would be to my credit" the little raS-
cal Speaking about
>quaws. reminds me that Il town is
full to r]eplction of them now; >ome
i'll full dress. some in half. and |
blush to say somei III no dress at all"
Following is the fifth composition of
a little boy about thirteen wears of age
son OF a minister. 1t shows con-
siderable labor and research, and con
t2ins much valuable Information on
the history Of keepers:
Clocks and watches are great i'm
prOvement> on the time-keeperS ofthe
ancientS. The ancients had no time
keeper except the sun-dial aud clepSv-
dra. or water clock. The former iudi-
cate the hours by a style or pin. OF a
metallic plate: the latter by "A flow Of
water from a veSel-the same as our
sand glasses, except they used water
instead of sand. The dial, of course
was useless at night. Alfred the Great.
4N5 wears after Christ. had nothing ike
Il clock. He used a candles. about
twelve inches in length, and of uni
form thickness. one of these burned
about four hours and six of them
burned a dav. The outside of the
candle was marked in different places
to denote the hours. minutes. etc.
They were put in Il thin, transparent
norm. |" keep tl'll' '.uIilltSfr-uiafiN'
'ioCNS iloNcu "N "cI-HI' Nc'tN i''Nh
10 me H~araCCi's d>taIIN tiIlr
'tI'I"lN' ne IiN' cio'N 'li'! ~
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was me Ii>' 10 Il''ll me PeilduLt'lt .
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NJ en- III !u''" \ -
a'Ihe> we're II>t mace IN me IN
Ietil'H ccn'"I "l. l ."uI" mo- hl''
WHO wis 'He IlNei''oi'
"TraVeling" is the subject chosen
by a pretty little girl about ten years
of age-onc " no is not only the pref
test but one Of the most accomplished
Of her aye in the Stale. She gives
Mark Twain Il dir. hut that which. in
her artle>>ncSs, she SAYS. il but what
thousands of Older heads think:
Il often think when | am crown
shall travel extensively. There j. no
thing | should cnjov 50 much. What
a pleasure to be able to see the differ
cnt places we read of! fused to think
| would like Ia see Paris. but | would
rather he excused now: should OBJ
iect 10 being killed. would like To
20 20 the HOLY Land. Mark Twain's
.~.Innocents Abroad''i is full Of Incl
dents that he saws happened there.
fall he said was truth, the Holy Land
would pe a queer pace. ne says ne