MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORIvER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND EAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
GROCERS’ SCALES. 
W Weighing from one-half ounce 
to sixty-two pounds. Convenient 
and extremely accurate; used as 
a Platform Seale, or with a scoop 
as Counter Scale. Adapted to 
*S52S58» family uses, Stores, Groceries, &c., 
and is particularly safe for 
1 weighing valuable spices, drugs, 
JeLjA nother size, made on the same 
*-u general plan as the above, de¬ 
nominated the “Counter Scale,” is a well-known article. 
Capacity, one-half ounce to thirty-six pounds. Econom¬ 
ical for all Retail Stores and Shops, giving just weight, 
but requiring no excess for down weight. 
Also, the “ Druggists’ Scale,” similar to the “ Counter, 
indicating drachms, ounces and pounds. Capacity, eight 
pounds. These scales are also adjusted to troy weights. 
They operate with great delicacy, and are reliable for 
weighing valuable metals, costly drugs, SilkB, &c. 
EVEN BALANCE. 
^ No. 1—Weighing from half an 
(\ )__) ounce to eight pounds. 
x^ K r -i'a!b ->, No. 1—With brass Beale beam — 
Weighing from one-fourth 
ofanounc9 to eight pounds. 
jsT " No. 2—Weighing from half an 
_dY , ounce to four pounds. 
CST " '"US) No. 3—Weighing from half an 
ounce to four pounds. 
These four last Scales may be made to weigh two or 
three times as much by using common weights. 
GOVERNMENT LETTER BALANCE. 
FV riu . - y -- Indicating the weight of 
1 - letters and"" packages to be 
| |’\ [ j) forwarded by mail, with rates 
(iof postage, if paid or unpaid. 
gpitaiM'fTlKpe We aie prepared to furnish 
' to the trade, or at retail, the 
Post-Office Balance adopted by Government, packed se¬ 
curely in single boxes. _ 
IMPROVED LETTER BALANCE. 
_ Combining all the cor- 
kilf STi 17, jr rectness of the balance 
<—fl ^gg 1 adopted by Government, 
JUPfl with the additional conven- 
tenet of occupying much 
' '' ' lese spare. Every business 
~~ man should have one. 
the numbers and capacities of which are as follows: 
Scales 
No. 1—Platform 4 feet square.MOO lb. 
No. 4—Platform 3)4 by 8% feet-3 600 lb. 
No. 6-Platform 2>£ by 3 feet.2,600 lb. 
*7_ _____.---2,000 lb. 
No! 9— .. '.L 400 lt '- 
These modifications are fitted with drop levers by which 
the platform is raised, with its load, to be weighed and 
then lowered, so that tbo outer edge rests upon andforms 
a part of the floor. They are found exceedingly conve¬ 
nient, inasmuch as the space which they occupy in the 
floor can be appropriated, when the Scale it not used for 
weighing, to the ordinary business of the store. 
We give below a copy of a certificate, signed by the 
several Sealers of Weights and Measures in the City of 
New York, who have been called upon to test these Scales 
from year to year: 
The undersigned. Inspectors and Sealers of Weights 
and Measures in the City of New York, having had fre¬ 
quent occasion to test the various Platform Scales in use 
in this city, are pleased to bear onr testimony to the su¬ 
perior charscter of those manufactured by Messrs. E. and 
T. Fairbanks & Co., and do cheerfully recommend them 
to the public as the most perfect weighing machines in 
Ralph Trkmiily, Inspector Weights and Measures, 1st 
District. 
Thomas H. Watnwright, Inspector, 2d District. 
Allen E. Simons, Dept Inspector, 1st District. 
Gk@rgk Karr, Sealer, 1st District. 
John H. Embrbk, Sealer, 2d District. 
These seales are placed in the floor of the depot build¬ 
ings, and are constructed wholly of iron, with cast-steel 
bearings, and not liable to wear or los8 their adjustment 
by use. The beam is sustained upon iron pillars, with a 
neat architectural finish. They are in general used by 
railroad corporations. 
“ Freight-Office, Camden and Amboy Railroad and 
Transportation Co., Pier No 1 North River. 
« New York, Feb. 22, 1866. 
“ Having for several years past used Depot and other 
Scales of various sizes and patterns, made by Messrs. Fair¬ 
banks & Co., it is with great pleasure that I bear testi¬ 
mony to their quick and accurate working, as well as to 
their durability and little need of repairs. They have 
been subject to constant and severe service, and proved 
themselves to be superior to any Seals used by this Com¬ 
pany in their freight department for twenty years past. 
“ALFRED DECKER, 
« Agent Transportation Department.” 
We refer to onr Circular Pamphlet for alist of railroads 
having our Scales in use. This list comprises, with few 
exceptions, all the railroads on this continent. 
He who would accomplish anything in this 
world must not stand gazing idly upon the sea of 
circumstances, with the vain hope of adjusting 
nice chances; but with resolute energy, and the 
most indomitable perseverance, press boldly on¬ 
ward. 
This is an age in which the sluggard need not 
think of coping with him who is active and wide 
awake, much less to aspire to arrive at eminence 
and fame. How many men have started in life 
with the most flattering prospects of success, and 
because of a few dark clouds of opposing 
elements floating ominously across the horizon of 
their career, have sunk down faint-hearted into a 
grave of hopeless obscurity I Many an aspiring 
youth has had his brightest anticipations shivered, 
because the bark of his hopes sprung a leak on 
the out juttings rocks of opposition; whereas, if 
he had repaired the breach and sailed persevering- 
ly onward, he would soon have left all obstacles 
behind, his course would have been unimpeded by 
the fierce blasts of envy, and he might have suc¬ 
ceeded in the effort of inscribing his name on the 
scroll of fame, and have left a better memorial of 
his existence behind than the simple slab which 
marks his grave. 
Let perseverance, then, be the watchward of every 
true progressionist, and like the heroes of the past 
—like the Patriots of the American Revolution, 
never cease to persevere until the end sought is gained. 
Paris, Stark Co., O., 1868. N. Neebigh. 
The following Cuts, illustrative of some of the leading 
modifications of our SCALES, with a brief description of 
each, are presented, with the belief that they will be of 
interest to every reader of the Rural New-Yorker: 
A uniform standard of Weights, and a correct system 
of weighing, are snbjects claiming the attention of every 
individual in the community. 
A correct Scale is a just arbiter between buyer and sell¬ 
er, and it is of the utmost importance that an instrument 
so universally called upon to decide questions of great 
value in the daily and hourly transactions of business, 
should be of such reliability and exactness as to secure 
the confidence of all those who may be affected by the re¬ 
sults indicated. 
The invention of these Scales, and the improvements 
that have been from time to time adopted, are the result 
of many years’ close observation and practical experience, 
and we have now brought them to such a degrte of ac¬ 
curacy that they may safely b8 relied upon in every tran¬ 
saction by weight. Tbeir construction is upon the most 
correct mathematical principles; all defects so commonly 
met with in compound balances have been overcomo by 
practical skill and faithful workmanship; and hence their 
operation is delicate, and in every case unerringly correct. 
The reputation which these Scales have acquired has 
been of steady growth from the commencement to the 
present time, and is based upon the principle adopted by 
us, and never deviated from, of allowing none but perfect 
weighing machines to go forth from our establishment. 
By a strict adherence to this principle, the confidence 
of the public in the accuracy of these weighing-machines 
has steadily increased, and with it the demand, until, from 
small b. ginnings, our manufacture, having annually ad- 
HAY AND CATTLE SCALES. 
ROLIING-MILL SCALES. 
These are very hea- 
v-m 1 vy and durable, and 
are designed for use 
If] rlf in Foundries, Rolling 
■ | " j Mills, Iron Manufac- 
JA 0 tories, &c. 
/ ffii 1st size, fitted with 
/ m Drop Lever, and Vi- 
/ bratory Axle and 
/ rel \ ^ it Rack or Iron Plate, as 
/ h Lwh 'U rrP the purchaser may 
/ choose. Capacity — 
\ three thousand lbs. 
2d size, similar to 
the first. Capacity— 
feitewj mr -* Ka - «*■ twenty-five hundred 
pounds. 
By a new and important arrangement these Scales are 
fitted with patent India Rubber Spring Platforms, so as to 
Kecuro groat durability, when mod in Foundries, Iron 
Houses, and wherever very heavy weighing ia required. 
They are in use in mauy of the principal Iron Houses 
and Manufactories throughout the country, and we have 
yet to hear of the first instance of dissatisfaction. 
For weighing loaded Wagons, Carts, Live Stock, Pro¬ 
duce, kc. Constructed of Iron, with ste8l bearings, and 
not liable to derangement or damage by exposure to the 
weather. 
More than four thousand of these convenient and dura¬ 
ble Seales have been put up by us in all parts of the United 
States and British Provinces. They are of five sizes, viz.: 
two, three, four, six amd ten tuns, and will be set by ex¬ 
perienced workmen in any patt of the United States or 
the Canadas. 
At the several Fairs of the Amerioan Institute, and of 
the State and County Agricultural •'ocieties, where these 
Scales have t we n exhibited, they have received the high¬ 
est premiums At the Fair of the American Institute, 
held in October, 1856, ouc Scales were severely tested in 
connection with those of other manufacturers, and fully 
sustained their reputation for superiority over all others. 
An aocount of the test was fairly and accurately report¬ 
ed for the N. Y. Tribune and Pennsylvanian, and copied 
extensively by other papers throughout the country. 
After the test, we received the following certificate from 
the officers of the Institute: 
A Gold Medal was awarded by the American Institute 
to Messrs. Fairbanks & Co., for the best Hay, Coal and 
Cuttle Scales. (Signed) Rout. L. Pell, President. 
H. Meigs, Record. Sec’y. 
New York, Oct., 1856. W. B. Leonard, Cor. Sec. 
Note. —In most cases, onr Traveling Agent will attend 
to the erection of Hay, Cattle and Coal Scales. But, if 
ordered for a section where we have no Agent, we can 
wood them complete, so as to operate perfectly when 
placed on a proper foundation, and ship the whole with 
directions for setting them up. 
WILL CLERKS MAKE FARMERS! 
Messes, Eds.:— In the Rural of Sept. 18th, I 
notice a communication from “J. W.” He goe3 
off in a wrathy manner, makes strong assertions, 
but does not advance a single proof. Every per¬ 
son is entitled to his or her opinion, but before 
they attempt to pass them off on community as 
facts, they should present proofs. In regard to the 
“ poor, sickly clerks ” being unfit for the West, I 
will say, in my opinion, there is no better place for 
them. 
I propose to give you my experience. The 
greater portion of my life has been spent in the 
city, both as a student and clerk, and I can say, in 
truth, that I never enjoyed a month of good health 
while thus engaged. The rose-tint of health found 
no plac8 upon my cheek. Through the advice of | 
friends I was induced, in 1856, to quit the city and 
try country life. I will admit plowing, liarrowing, 
dec., went rather hard with me at first, but by per¬ 
severance I was soon enabled to take the place of 
of a hand. For two years I have enjoyed good 
health; in fact, I have not been sick a day for more 
than two years. “ J. W.” may ridicule the idea as 
much as he likes, but I can prove, upon good au¬ 
thority, what I have stated to be true. 
Springfield, Iil., 1858. Will, 
satisfactory testimonials which we have received are from 
the thousands of business men —including the Managers 
of Railroads, the Officers of Government, and other Pub¬ 
lic Works, Merchants, Manufacturers, the Forwarders of 
merchandise, and others—whe have, during the last 
twenty-five years, subjected the scales daily to severe 
usage, and to the most rigorous tests. 
Nearly all the Railroads in the United States—compris¬ 
ing a list of over ono hundred and twenty-five —are sup¬ 
plied wholly or in part with Saales of our manufacture. 
Fairbanks’ Scales are also almost exclusively in use on ail 
the principal Railroads of Great Britain. 
From over one hundred different modifications of our 
Scales, wo have selected the following illustrations of a 
few of the leading sizes and kinds, which will serve to 
show that they are adapted to a great v riety of uses, to 
suit the requirements of nearly every branch of business: 
- __ This Scale is de- 
? l=i ?3 lSS signed for Coal 
jfcK Dealers’ use, and is 
| graded so as to in- 
C L , dicate the weight 
of the coal, with 
the tare deducted. 
The same Scale is 
fitted with common 
weights, weighing 
from o ne-half 
, pound to one thou¬ 
sand pounds. The 
platform of this 
Scale is T/. by 3)4 
feet, and is very 
f;-.,' convenient for 
\v. .,: A weighing light, bul- 
ky articles. Seve- 
p*—ral bags or barrels 
can be weighed up- 
_e\CNVVN*&. *-A. 
And Patent Balances with Frames, Hogsheads and Bar¬ 
rel Hooks, Coffee and Hide Bottoms, Iron Cradles, 6fC. 
Cotton, Flour and Crain Beams, of Brass or iron, manu¬ 
factured to order. , „ . . 
All the above articles are manufactured of the best 
materials, and are warranted durable and accurate. Like 
our Platform Scales, they are adjusted to any foreign 
standard, and p icked ready for shipment. 
GOLD BALANCES, 
PORTABLE PLATFORM SCALES. 
WEIGH LOCK!CAlr4C0T5vf' 
COAL DEALERS’ AND FARMERS’ 
c a alTdealer] 
wm^\ 
THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS. 
For weighing Loaded Boats, and capable of weighing 
from twenty-five pounds to five hundred tuna. The 
weight in this modification is indicated by a Beam, and is 
ascertained at once, as soon as the boat is placed within 
the lock, and the water removed. 
One of these Scales is used in the Susquehanna and 
Tide Water Canal, tear Columbia, Pa.; two in the Dela¬ 
ware and Hudson Canal, at Edyville and at Hawley; two in 
the Erie Canal, at Albany and at West Troy; ono in the 
Ohio Canal, at Cleveland; one in the Wabash and Erie 
Canal, at Toledo; and two in the Ohio Canals, at Lock- 
land and Carroll. We have letters from the following 
gentlemen, who are well known to the public as men 
competent to judge, speaking in the highest terms of the 
“Live long as yon may, the first twenty years 
form the greater part of your life. They appear so 
while they are pasBiDg; they seem to have been 
so when we look back to them, and they take up 
memory than all the years that 
Various sixes of these scales are made with and with¬ 
out wheels, and adapted to every branch of business, and 
are in daily use in thousands of stores and manufactories 
in all parts of the world. Somo of the principal sizes are 
as follows: 
No 2 .3 000 pounds capacity. 
No ‘ 7 . 2,000 pounds capacity. 
No ' s .* _1,600 pounds capacity. 
No ' g . 1,400 pounds capacity. 
No ‘ IQ ..1,200 pounds capacity. 
No 10M. 900 pounds capaoity. 
No ' _!.. 600 pounds capacity. 
No! 11M!"”I"-'-"-*-!!---!. ^ 00 capacity. 
They are convenient, accurate, and not liable to de¬ 
rangement. 
EXAMINE YOUR SCALES. 
SCALE WILL GNAW TUB VERY VITALS OMT 
more room in our 
succeed them.” 
If this be so, how important that they should be 
passed in planting geod principles, cultivating 
good tastes, strengthening good habits, and fleeing 
all those pleasures which lay up bitterness and 
sorrow for time to come. Many of the youth of 
this country take no heed of the present moment; 
they let the time pass unnoticed and unimproved. 
Their only care i3 to seek present pleasure and 
amusement No thought is given to the stern ne¬ 
cessities of manhood and old age. Pleasure is 
their heart’s desire, and pleasure will finally be the 
cause of their future sorrow. No exertion is made 
for the rapid improvement of the mind, as they sup¬ 
pose there is time enough at a future day, hut they 
will find it the contrary. Take good care of the 
first twenty years of your life and you may hope 
that the last twenty will take care of you. 
Rochester, N. Y., 1858. 3. W. 
Iu great variety, for the use of Banks, Brokers, Jewelers, 
&c , varying in price from fifty cents to five hundred dol¬ 
lars. Also, Weights, Coin Scoops, &o. Cola Scales suit¬ 
ed to the California and Australia trade constantly on 
hand and manfactured to order. Onr Bank Scales are of 
the most perfect workmanship and beautiful finish, with 
fine steel knife edges, working upon agate bearings. Any 
desired size or style will be manufactured to order. 
Similar in their construction to the Hay Scale. Used 
extensively by coal dealers axid miners, also in lion Houses 
and Foundries. Capacity—Two, Three, Four, Six and Ten 
tuns. This Sc <le may be set in the barn floor or else¬ 
where, and used for weighing Hay, Grain, Live Stock, &c. 
It may be either s'ationary or so arranged as to be easily 
removed from place to place when required. Coal deal¬ 
ers and others who are about purchasing Scales, will do 
well to examine the evidences upon which we base our 
claim to superority. 
MINERS’ AND TRANSPORTATION SCALE. 
This is a new modification, designed to be set in the Ore 
Bed, and in the Wharf or Storehouse, for weighing 
Freight, Ore, Coal, &c., and will be found a very conveni- 
DRUGGIST3 SCALES, 
. On Brass, Iron and Mar- 
K ble Stands, with Silver 
and Brass Beams of most 
S ffiaaaSiiyaiflSBw® reliable accuracy and per- 
f J 9 feet finish. Solid Silver 
| j and Brass Prescription 
A I A Scales— steel and agate 
/\ 1 /\ bearings. Beranger’scel- 
\ ' f / \ ebrated Scales, manufac- 
./ . ft Y , 1 I 1 tured in France; used by 
’ ; -i ' v {. I druggists, confectioners, 
and confec- 
’w. - tinners will do well to ex- 
'—- .v-rvfcVritr-v - amine our stock before 
purchasing. __ 
Manufacturers: 
E_ 8z T. FAIRBANKS Sz Go., 
St. JOUNSBURY, VERMONT. 
Principal Warehouses: 
FAIRBANKS 8z Go., 
No. 189 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 
GREENLEAF & BROWN, 
No 34 Kilby st., Boston. 
FAIRBANKS & E WING, 
Masonic Hall, Philadelphia. 
FAIRBANKS & GREENLEAF, 
No. 35 Lake st., Chicago. 
Principal Local Agencies ; 
HOMER FOOTE & Co., Springfield, Mass. 
BARKER, WHITAKER & Co., Providence, R. I. 
EMERY & WATERHOUSE, Portland, Me. 
ERASTUS CORNING & Co., Albany, N. Y. 
J. M. WARREN & Co., Troy, N. Y. 
H. O. COWING, Buffalo, N. Y. 
J, S. FARR AND, Detroit, Mich. 
FOSTER, MARTIN & Co , Grand Rapids, Mich. 
WHITAKER & PHILLIPS, Toledo, Ohio. 
L. F. & S. RURGESS; Cleveland, Ohio. 
TRABER & AUBERY, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
W. B. BELKNAP & Co., Louisville, Ky. 
HORN BROOK be. Co., Evansville, Ind. 
GEORGE T. BROWNING, Indianapolis, Ind. 
COMPARET, HUBBELL & Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. 
G. F. & C. C. SMITH, Terre Haute, Ind. 
THOMAS UNDERWOOD, Lafayette, Ind. 
TREGO & WOODRUFF, Galena, Ill. 
WALKER k McILVAINE, Peoria, Ill. 
LANSING BONNELL, Milwaukee, Wis. 
FARLEY & CHRISTMAN, Dubuque, Iowa. 
CLARK k Co., St. Louis, Mo. 
GEO. W. SIZER, New Orleans, La. 
J. O. SPEAR k Co., Baltimore, Md. 
J. & F. DAWSON, Charleston, S. C. 
BELL, PRENTISS & Co., Savannah, Ga. 
JOHN NELSON, Augusta, Ga. 
WOODRUFF & HUNTINGTON, Mobile, Ala. 
CLARKSON & ANDERSON, Richmond, Va. 
K3T CIRCULAR PAMPHLETS, with Cuts and full de- 
• scriptions of our Scales; also, containing a list of names 
• of parties who have our Scales in use, and who have 
1 permitted us to refer to them, may be had on application 
‘ at any of the above-named Agencies. 
“ XX INCORRECT 
OP AN APPARENTLY PROSPEROUS BUSINESS.” 
Test your Scales thoroughly, and, if found incorrect, 
throw them aside, and buy one of Fairbanks’ celebrated 
Scales, the universally acknowledged standard for correct 
weight. 
A WOBD OF CAUTION. 
The well-earned reputation of these Scales has induced 
the venders of imperfect and worthless balances to offer 
them as “ Fairbanks' Scales," and purchasers have threeby 
in many instances been subjected to fraud and impo¬ 
sition. 
The manufacturers have no controversy with honorable 
competitors, who transact business in their own names; 
but regarding the perpetrators of the above fraud as pur¬ 
suing a course alike unjust and dishonorable, they take 
this method to caution the public against their imposition. 
Fairbanks’ Scales are manufactured at no other place 
than St. Johnsbury, Verm ont, where the business is still 
conducted under the supervision of the original inventors. 
FAIRBANKS’ SCALES ARK THE 
LEGALIZED STANDARD 
FOR CORRECT WEIGHT. 
A lawsuit which arose from a discrepancy of weight 
between one of Fairbanks’ Scales in use by the Balti¬ 
more and Ohio Railroad Company and one of another 
manufacturer, was recently tried in the Court of Cymmun 
Picas. Baltimore. The cage occupied the Court two days, 
GLASS—ITS USES. 
.'Ail • " ICV.U' . f T- . r 
WHEAT OR. E0PP3R SCALES. 
— r-. n Indicating Bush- 
|! II $ _ els, used iu Mills, 
and 
The cheapness of glass, for common use, which 
cheapness is the result of chemical discovery, has 
of late years set the ingenuity of man to work to 
give greater beauty to glass as an article of luxu¬ 
ry. The employment of sharp grinding wheels, 
put in motion by a treadle, and used in conjunc¬ 
tion with a very nice hand, produces cut glass; 
and the latter is now comparatively so cheap that 
scarcely a family is without some beantifnl article 
Ordinary drinking glasses, 
Storehouses 
B fcji'/M Wharves, for re- 
Jaffl Mm ceivi “ s and <leliT6r ' 
'■) _»! js&J ing wheat and other 
J '§F\ J grain. This modi- 
hextion is adapted 
•• to secure and com- 
! !* ! kj fi. bine entire accnra- 
c| sS cy with the most 
_ _ found practically an 
-r invaluable improve- 
Fi'.i:. . . ., .. ment. 
We make four sizes of this variety of Scales. Sixty and 
one-hundred bushel scales are set dormant in the Wharf 
or Storehouse, and are capable of weighing grain as fast 
as it can be handled by the most approved steam machin¬ 
ery. A large number of these Scales are in use at the 
Atlantic Docks, Brooklyn, and in Grain Warehouses and 
Mills throughout the country. 
The Tnirty and Forty Bushel Hopper Scales are porta¬ 
ble, and may be easily removed from place to place, and 
are frequently used on board Ships, Barges, Canal Boats, 
&c. 
We furnish, to order, Hopper Scales capable of weigh¬ 
ing Three, Four and Five Hundred Bushels at a draft. 
There are designed for weighing locomotives, loaded 
cars, and trains of cars. They may he made of any de¬ 
sired length or capacity. The kinds most frequently in 
use are the following, all of which are famished with the 
newly patented Beam for securing rapidity in weighing: 
Railroad Track Scales, for weighing Trains, 112 feet. 
Platform, 100 Tuns. 
Railroad Track Scale, 84 ft. Platform, 76 Tuns. 
Railroad Track Scale, 42 ft. Platform, 60 Tuns. 
Railread Track Scale, 33 ft. Platform, 30 Tuns. 
Railroad Track Scale, 28 ft. Platform, 25 Tuns. 
Railroad Track Scale, 23 ft. Platform, 20 Tuns. 
Railroad Track Scale, 16 ft. Platform, 18 Tuns. 
Railroad Track Scale for weighing single cars, 10 Tuns. 
We invite the attention of railroad men and others to 
our Improved Iron Frame Railroad Track Scale, letters 
patent for which were granted in January, 1857. This 
Scale will be found extremely accurate, durable and con¬ 
venient, and requiring but little depth of pit; is not liable 
to injury from water when placed where it has been found 
impossible to use the ordinary Track Scale, and is erected 
j at much less expense for foundation and timber. We 
of this manufacture, 
lamps, &c., are made in imitation of cut glass, by 
subjecting a portion of the melted glass to pres¬ 
sure in a mould; in this manner articles of great 
beauty, but of a les3 cost, closely resembling cut 
glass,”are made in great quantity. The reduction 
of the cost of the manufacture of glass has also 
had the effect of improving the architecture of 
eur houses to a very great degree. We have now 
plate glass of the largest dimensions, giving light 
and beauty to our shops; and sheet glass, nearly 
as effective as plate, adorning our private dwel¬ 
lings. Sheet glass, in the making of which an 
amount of ingenuity is exercised which would 
have been thought impossible in the early stages 
of glass making, is doing for the ordinary pur¬ 
poses of building what plate glass did formerly 
for the rich. A portion of melted glass, weigh¬ 
ing twelve or fourteen pounds, is, by the exercise 
of this skill, converted into a ball, and then into a 
cylinder, and then into a flat plate. 
To Make a Bakk Canoe.— Some time Bince five 
young readers of the Kubal who were about to 
spend a few weeks in the country, on the banks of 
a beautiful river, wrote us to know how to make a 
birch bark canoe. As we had never made a canoe, 
since a long time ago, when we floated onr tiny 
barques with paper sails, we wrote to a friend who 
we knew to be an adept at making and managing 
canoes, and other water craft, — one who delights 
to fish and hunt, and who declares he would have 
made an excellent Indian. For some unexplained 
cause we have failed to receive a response, so 
we place the question before onr readers. Who 
can tell ns how to make a birch bark canoe? 
PLATFORM COUNTER-SCALES. 
—No. 12.—The capacity of the 
Platform Scale exhibited in the 
|| ^ accompanying engraving is two 
hundred and forty pounds.— 
’L, £t has a short pillar, as shown 
, ' in the illustration. The l’lat- 
■ sffrC form is nineteen by thirteen 
ssf&W-’} inches, not braced. This Scale 
jFMyfggjb is suitable for small Grooers, 
Hi® Provision Dealers, and other 
^ retailers, ka. 
OR FAMILY SCALE. 
_ We have recently 
constructed an im- 
proved Scale, com- 
bining the advan- 
a——^ tages of a Counter 
if * ) a n d a Platform 
fk *i»Sacle. We denomi- 
nate it the “ Family 
; L—Scale,” it being pe- 
culiarly adapted to 
—* household purposes. 
It weighs with the utmost accuracy from one half-ounce 
to two hundred and forty pounds. The Scale is provided 
with a scoop or pan for weighing flour sugar or other 
house stores in the kitchen, and also with a platform for 
heavier articles—as boxes, casks, &c., as well as for taking 
the weight of individual members of the family and their 
friends, from the portly grandfather down to the little 
« heir ” in the cradle. It is an indispensable article in 
every family. . „ „ . 
It is equally convenient for Grocers and all Retailers. 
UNION, 
DORMANT WAREHOUSE SCALES. 
Set in the floor, 
• :33c? 1 . and weighing from 
' -j . „ v _ " _ or.e-half pound to 
: C L-’l' )f'* flv« thousand 
a ... 1 - pounds. Used fre¬ 
quently i n small 
j wV laiirosfi depots and 
I • Yi stations; alBO in 
l -Sty a 8tore8 > warehouses, 
L'iv ; ...V // forwarding houses, 
,'Y ' &c. A very desira¬ 
ble, substantial and 
g perfeet Scale- We 
- " have five different 
■ sizes o f Dormant 
RAILROAD DEPOT SCALES. 
No. l.—l2,ooo 
^?? pounds, Platform 
weighing from 
i 5^I .. ll pfeL_one-half pound 
!!’ £ to twelve thon- 
i' '• i! Eand P° unds ’ 
; No. 2.-8,000 
/ Z . pounds, Pia'form 
7 by 9 feet; weighing from one-half pound to eight thou¬ 
sand pounds. 
