Show ORIGIN OF FAIRBANKS SCALES about the year 1830 the hemp fever broke out in central cen trai vermont i edonia and lamoille iia Ija moille counties the farmers entered largely its production and it waSt this thib enterprises which whichever cheven eventually i tu a lly ily proved so unprofitable to those who W h 0 engaged e in iti it that gave birth to oteff important instruments in the civilized world the platform 3 selle scale fl it came about something in this wise wisa merchants mer MeT chants and others made contracts to purchase hemp by weight and as it was a slow process to to weigh such bulky ma mal aerial I 1 with the tho old oid steelyard ssi foj ic laj lcj ia it a mr thaddeus fairbanks q who has great inventive talent by this circumstance had his attention called to ila the science of weighing and in lal jal a short time he invented and had constructed a d rude apparatus which he suspended in a frame building and which answered the purpose of weighing this hemp this rude weighing machine was the first platform scale for although there have been various and multiform improvements prove ments since the principle of leverage etc upon which that instrument was got up ia is precisely the same as that of the platform bale baie sale today toda to da day y the inventors anven tors older b brother ro t or erastus discovered dib die covered at once that this was a useful invention and a patent was applied nor for and obtained this in brief was tho the commencement of the seale scale business which has now grown into worldwide world wide notoriety jt it increased very slowly for the first ten years but from 1842 to 1857 it doubled every three threlo years pearel owing to the financial panic of the latter year there was a slow blow increase for several years buttice buti butt but since bince nce nee has groven grov rn with immense strides the now amount to about a yer year the firm nirm expended about a year in h Y in their factory some aqil nien 1 en are employed and a 9 handsome v village 1 nage rage of inhabitants haa baa grown this humble beginning A at t st johnsbury vt the senior pi partner iftner kitner erascus aay aly vair valt banks was for two jeard the governor odthe of the state tateos of vermont he andis younger brother jhc jee are both bolh dead the head head of the alm nim nirm firm isnow T thaddeus dd eus eua t the original inventor lumas itaas b ben ed his bis lot niika nilka that of manyam many am ing ins v tors fors to enjoy the rene reNi rewards ards of hib his a skill ill III and industry i zif rif dri 1 of 7 1 aie ile an english bishop jil shop w who ho was fond lot shooting s looting in one of his excursions us met w with th a friends gamekeeper whom he ve sharply reproved for inattention to mec hib religious duties exhorting him strenuously iu to go to church an and dread read hia hla bible the heeper keeper in angry mood mood Wood re aar T spondee spon ded why I 1 do read ay my sibie sible bir sir bub but nad find fril Izil la it tany any mention of the apostles going i a shooting 11 no CJ my good man you are right said baid the bishop the shooting was wag very bad in palestine BO so they went a fishing instead 31 j maj in a paper read before the anthropological society tells us that all the ladies in constantinople are slave dealers every woman who has hab as any an capital to invest becomes beco mesan an importer I 1 orter of her sex from froin Cir clr cassia the business ia is safe and profitable for white sik sih slaves ves are a necessity to the dynasty itis contrary to the statutes of the empire for the sultan or his family to marry any but slaves and in seraglios lios it is the who receive the best treatment and alone attain the highest honors so intimate ly is slavery bound up with the social and political system of turkey that in the opinion of maj the extinction of the former must imply the destruction of the latter A pleasant story has lately circulated about count bismarck A country clergyman and old fellow collegian of the counts Count lo was wash anxious to get his bis Is son into the marines and at length summoned up courage to address his quondam comrade entertaining however howe ver but faint hopes of the great minister remembering mem bering hm him not being much in the habit of 0 f writing to grandees grandeas gran dees the good man could not fo for r some til time determine how to begin but at length commenced his letter your highness 11 he soon received the following you old blockhead you youl do you think I 1 have forgotten the happy time when we studied and drank together ia in got teh burg and when we were so 80 often waiting on each other and now how can you address me in such a foolish way pray never levei again call me highness letus continue on the same terms as of old As to your boy send him to me ill take care of him the public lands of the united states are estimated at li acres of which ch about two thirds are available W in ln quare square miles this would equal 2 of this immense domain s some bome orn ora e of acris acres have been beeri officially hily illy bun our surveyed of v and ana over dis disposed a M |