{"newspaper_name": "Mobile register and journal.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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The advertisement of lhe Postmaster General for fifteen thousand scales for he of his depart has set Yankee ingenuity 10 work to some purpose. Mir. Poor, of the firm of Lows, Ball < Co.,. has con slrnced very ingenious ba lance by inserting rod into body of quicksilver, enclosed in glass tube -the sinking and rising of the rod indicate the OK acl weight upon the top of it, where the scale rests.

 MT. Daniel K Pratt, who Is employed al the shol, of Mr. Carlton, Mo- F Beace street. has produced |, similar piece of workmanship. except that the rotl rests upon wire spring instead of being emerged il, quicksilver.-l Boston Post.