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Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 436, 27 December 1861, Page 4

THE PHILOSOPHER'S SCALES. What were they ?—you ask; you shall presently see! These scales were not made to weigh sugar and tea; Oh no:—for such properties wondrous had they, That qualities, fellings and thoughts they could weigh, Together with articles, email or immense, From mountains and planets to atoms of sense; Kought was there so buiky but there it lay, And nought so ethereal but there it would stay; And nought so reluctant but in it must go >:— All which some examples more clearly will show. The first thing he tried was the head of Voltaire, Which retained all the wit that had ever been there; As a weight he threw in a torn scrap of a leaf, Containing the prayer of.the penitent thief; When the skull iwe aloft with so sudden a spell, As to bound like a ball on the roof of his cell. Next timo he put in Alexander the Great, With a garment that Dorcas had made—for a weight; And though clad in armour from sandals to crown, The hero rose up, and the garment went down. A long row of alms-houses, amply endowed By a well-esteemed Pharisee, busy and proud, Now loaded one scale, while the other was prest By those mites the poor widow dropp'd into the chest; Up flew the endowment, not weighing an ounce, And down, down, the farthing's worth came with a bounce. By further experiments (no matter how) He found that ten chariots weigh'd less than one plough. A sword, with gilt trapping, ruse up in the scale, Though balanced by only a tenpennny nail. A lord and a lady went up at full-sail, When a bee changed to light on the opposite scale. Ten doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one earl, — Ten counsellors' wigs full of powder and curl, All heap'd in one balance, and swinging from thence, Weigh'd less than some atoms of candor and sense ;— A first-water diamond, with brilliants begirt, Than one good potatoe just wash'd from the dirt; Yet not mountains of silver and gold would suffice, One pearl to outweigh: 'twas the' pearl of great price! At last the whole world was bowl'd in at the grate, With the soul of a beggar to serve as a weight;— When the former sprang up with so strong a rebuff, That it made a vast rent, and escaped at the roofWhile the scale with the soul in't so mightily fell, That it jerked the philosopher out of his cell. Jane Taylor. 1.0.0.F.,M.U. T^HE ANNIVERSARY DINNER of the Loyal Nelson and Howard Lodges will be held in the Odd-Fellow's Hall, on WEDNESDAY, the Ist of January, 1862. The Brethren of the order are requested to meet at the Hall at Twelve o'clock. The procession to start at half-past Twelve precisely. Dinner at Six. p.m. Brother Donald Sinclair, Esq. will take the chair. Tickets to be had at the Wakatu Hotel, and from liny of the Committee. All Friends of the Order are respectfully invited to attend. . A. AMOS, ■ 007 Secretary to Committee of Management. VIOTIOE.-—The undersigned will not be , ~* accountable for any Goods, Ac, obtained in his name by any person after this date. JAMES BRIDGEE, Massacre Bay, 581 Late Waimea West. Nelson Savings Bank. A MEETING of the TRUSTEES will be XjL held at the Chamber of Commerce on Monday the 30th instant, at 7 o'clock in the.Evening. Business to be transacted: To Examine and pay certain accounts. To assent to the removal of the Bank to the Nelson Institute, Hardy-street, Nelson. To name a sub-Committee to audit the accounts of the Bank for the year 1861. DONALD SINCLAIR, Vice-President. Nelson, 21st December, 1861. 609 t "WANTED, two good FARM SERVANTS, * ' and a stout LAD who can drive bullocks. Apply io Mr. HAROESS, Richmond; or to Mr. GOULARD, at Mrs. Nalder's, Nelson. 560 To Engineers, Contractors, and Others. rFHE undersigned being in connection -*- with the well-known Engineering Firm of Braithwaite and Company, of London, and having been appointed AGENTS in New Zealand for the Celebrated Haigh Foundry Company, and other eminent manufacturing firms, are prepared to furnish every information, including the prices (delivered at St. Katherine's Docks, or in New Zealand), in respect, of all kinds of ENGINEERING, and CONTRACTOR'S WORK, such asStationary and Locomotive Steam Engines, high and low pressure, Rails, Turn-tables, Rolling Stock, and Railway Plant of every description. Wrought and cast Iron Bridges of various designs, including patent Wire Rope Suspension Bridges, from ten to one thousand feet span. Cast and Wrought Iron Work of all kinds. Patent Lead, Wrought and Cast Iron Piping, and superior Plant and Fittings for Water and GasWoiks. Double-geared Crabs and independent Pillar Cranes, from twelve to twenty feet radius1, to lift from two to forty tons; Hydraulic and other Presses, for wool, hay, &c, &c. Millwright Work and Gearing of all kinds, including Fairburn's patent Wrought Iron Water Wheel. Steam Dredging Machines, Steam Tuga, Iron Steam Boats, for river, harbor, or ocean service, fitted with Rewain's patent and other approved engines, and super-heating Steam Apparatus for economising fuel, and having Paddles or Screw Propel.ers. A. S. BRAITHWAITE AND CO., 604 Nelson. Christmas Presents. TJ D. JACKSON begs to call the atten- -*--*■ • tion of the public of Kelson to his special Btock of Books Toys Fancy Goods wliich is now on vi«w at his Depot in Trafalgar-street. There are articles in it which will suit every Variety of taste, as well as every description of prase. High and low, therefore, as well as rich and poor, cannot do better than call and inspect for themselves. They are sure to find something to suit them. H. D. JACKSON, Book, Stationery, and Toy Warehouse, CS6 Trafalgar-street. Two Pounds RewardQTOLEN, from a bedroom in the Tra*3 falgar Hotel, a five-chambered REVOLVER, Bullet Mould, &c. Branded on the barrel, ' Cogswell's Patent,' and the name of ' Tuanteb' engraved | on the ramrod. Apply to Mrs. Luck, Trafalgar Hotel. I Decembui-17, 1861. 597 Preserving1. "pNAMELLED PRESERVING PANS. "^ Boilers and Saucepans Stewpans. < )n sale at the stores of 612 JOHN SYMONS AND CO. (CHRISTMAS FRUITS of every desciiption, at the lowest prices At the stores of 611 JONN SYMONS AND CO. TyOTICE.—On the Ist January, J862, a -1 * first INSTALMENT of 63. Bd. in the pound will be paid by us at the office of Messrs. Lightband pud Jackson, on account of Captain Lookett. „ . M. LIGHTBAND, 610 G, BAKER, !