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BOGUS MONEY.
Counterfeit Coins and Methods
of Making Them.
Dimes, Quarters and Dollars
That Glisten and Ring.
A cleverly-counterfeited 10-cent piece
wp.s taken by a New York Journal re
porter to the assay office.
“That’s an excellent sample of the
stylo of money in circulation just now,’’
said an employe, snapping the dime in
two. “It’s made of lead, antimony and
glass. The antimony produces that
brilliant appearance, while the glass
helps to haiden the lead and to give it
a resonant quality.”
“What is the process?”
The counterfeiter—who in nine cases
out of ten is an Italian—lakes a plaster
cast of a coin and from this cast makes a
mould. Then glass is poured into a
crucible and melted. While it is in a
moltou condition lead is dropped in and
as soon as these two ingredients assimi¬
late antimony is added. The compound
is run into the mould and a spurious
coin is the result. Before being foisted
on the market it has to be subjected to a
finishing process. In the first place, all
irregularities on the edges are adjusted.
The coin is then put into a bag of sand
and shaken. This removes any undue
sharpness of outline. If the result is not
considered perfect the counterfeiter re¬
sorts to the “potato” process—that is to
say, he sticks the coin into a raw potato
and leaves it there for several days.
Those shiny, slippery peculiarities no¬
ticeable on all spurious money are re¬
moved by potato juice.”
According to the Assay Office there
are more bogus dimes than dollars in
circulation. Dimes do not excite sus
picion so much as dollars, Day after
day street-car conductors are victimized
by the bogus dime.
A counterfeit silver dollar is very easy
to detect. Although it may deceive the
eye, the hand and ear, a close inspection
of its lettering will prove it to be false.
The reason is that the making of the
mould from a plaster cast results iu blurr¬
ing the inscription. Foreigners suffer
most from the bogus dollar.
“Is counterfeiting coins more common
than counterfeiting bills?” was asked of
a gentleman connected with United
States Commissioner Shields’ office.
“Yes,” was the reply. “From July
to October of last year a large number of
bogus oue and five dollar bills were put
in circulation and about twenty persons
were arrested by the police and Secret
Service officers. Owing to a course of
vigorous prosecution the passing of coun¬
terfeit bills were entirely stopped. In¬
deed, no complaint of that character lias
been made since October. Tlic manu¬
facture of coin in small quantities is
probably going on all the time. But
the risk of passing it, owing to the cer¬
tainty of conviction and the severe .sen¬
tences imposed, has sent New York
counterfeiters to other parts of the coun¬
try to get rid of their stuff.”
“What is the punishment for counter¬
feiters?”
“Imprisonment at hard labor for fif¬
teen years and $5000 fine for bills, and
ten years, with $5000 for gold and silver.
A nickel coiner gets three years and a
fine of $1000.”
‘ ‘From what class is the counterfeiter
generally recruited?”
“Our records show that in nine cases
out of ten the accused is an Italian, or
has got his supplies from an Italian, and
most of these Italians come from the
Island of Sicily.”
It is estimated that more spurious
money circulates in Europe than in
America. The best plates for the manu¬
facture of five-dollar bills seized by the
Secret Service officials have been en¬
graved in Paris.
Perhaps the most impudent fraud that
comes under the head of counterfeiting
was detected in England two years ago.
By way of helping to commemorate the
Queen’s Jubilee, the English government
issued 2,000,000 specially designed shil¬
lings. The reverse of the coin resem¬
bled a sovereign. A syndicate of en¬
terprising swindlers got hold of 500,000
of these shillings, bronzed them over
and circulated them as sovereigns. As
a result the government had to call in
the Jubilee coin, and it is now being
bought by collectors at a premium.
The messenger boy is proverbially
slow. It is only when he gets a stick of
licorice that he puts in his best licks.
Snow Forts in War.
A great many ung play-warriors
have built formic-^le snow forts but
they never have imagined, probably, that
there could be such a thing as the use of
snow forts by actual soldiers, and for
purposes of defence against bullets.
Lately, however, the Norwegian officers
have been conducting some interesting
experiments in snow' fortifications.
A colonel in the royal service recent¬
ly constructed entrenchments of packed
snow about three yards in thickness
Then he placed a firing detachment s
distance of 33 yards from the entrench¬
ments and caused more than 300
rifle shots to be fired into the fort.
After the filing the snow walls wer<»
examined and it was found that not a
single rifle ball had penetrated more
than a yard and a quarter into the snow.
The bullets were found flattened out
as if they had been fired into some hard
substance.
Such breastworks would undoubtedly
prove very useful against infantry, in a
winter campaign in a snowy country.
But a military force entrenched behind
them would have occasion to fear a thaw
or a heavy rain quite as much as the
bullets of the enemy.— Youths' Compan¬
ion.
Bnsy, Bustling Gotham.
It is doubtful if there is a busier spot
in the world of the same size than Man
hattan island, With the year ending
with September last the elevated rail¬
roads of New York City carried more
than one hundred and seventy million
passengers, And that is a passenger
traffic only four and a half million less
than the whole traffic of the German em¬
pire for the same time, with its 18,000
miles of roads! In France, where there
is more travel, the record is 205,273,340
passengers carried over her 20,144 miles
of road, which is about 15 per cent, more
than went up and down in New York
and wandered to and fro in it during the
same time. In this country during the
same time there were carried 428,225,513
passengers over the 149,912 miles of
road; but in this were included the 170,
000,000 of New York’s intramural rec¬
ord. So it appears that this traffic was
about 40 per cent, of the traffic of the
whole country, and it was carried on
32^ miles of track.
Celery as a Cure for Rheumatism.
Celery is the latest cure for rheuma¬
tism. It is asserted that the disease is
impossible if the vegetable be freely
eaten. The fact that it is so generally
put on the table raw prevents its thera¬
peutic powers from being known. The
celery should be cut into bits, boiled in
water until soft and the water drank by
the patient. Put new milk, with a lit¬
tle Hour and nutmeg, into a saucepan
with the boiled celery, serve warm, with
pieces of toast, cat it with potatoes and
ilie painful ailment will soon yield.
Such is the declaration of a physician
who lias again and again tried the ex¬
periment and wi:h uniform success. lie
adds that cold or damp never produces
but simply dcvelopes the disease, of
which acid blood is the primary and
sustaining cause, and that while tho
blood is alkaline there can he neither
rheumatism nor gout.
The Iron Horse a Cat’s Home.
Here is a cheerful tale, vouched for by
a country newspaper: “An engineer on
the Danville railway, between Danville,
Ill., and Springfield, has a cat that love3
railroading. For several years the cat
lias journeyed with the engineer on his
regular runs, usually sitting in the cab
window before its master. Sometimes in
fine weather it strolls out on the pilot,
lies there for hours at a stretch, blinking
at the dogs that bark as the train thun¬
ders by. Sometimes it climbs to the top
of the sand box and sits there undis¬
turbed by the shriek of the whistle or
the clang of the bell. The cat used to
belong to the engineer's wife, who is
dead, and he would not part with it for
love or money.”
A Mammoth Elevator.
A Winnipeg man gives an interesting
description of the Canadian Pacific’s new
grain elevator just completed at Fort
Williams on Lake Superior. Elevator
B, as it is called to distinguish it from
the first elevator built there by the Cana¬
dian Pacific Railway Company, has a
capacity of 1,400,000 bushels, There
are 14 elevating legs, each capable of
elevating 7,000 bushels per hour. Each
of these legs is furnished with a self
cleaning boot, the invention of W. J.
Loss, the company's Superintendent of
Buildings.
In Armor.
If temptation be resisted
And weakness be defied,
If I hold to right and honor
Though my soul be sorely tried,
K I keep me true from falsehood,
If I hold me free from shame,
If my best strength he enlisted
On the side of honest fame—
Shall I praise me for my cli osing?
Shall I think myself am strong?
Shall I laud me for refusing
All the sweets that go with wrong?
Not mine own the str. ngth I’m using.
This the thought that safely mailed 1119
This that he’d when courage failed me.
“There are those that love and trust mo
And I cannot give them pain!’’
—Newark Mirror.
HUMOROUS.
The bowler takes naturally to a rolling
country.
People call a man a dog because of his
waggish ways.
Sooner or later a potato is bound to get
its eyes peeled.
The first building with a recorded lien
was the tower of Pisa.
There is a very perceptible difference
between perfume and per-cent.
A $7 overcoat is a heap warmer than
the pawn ticket for a fur-trimmed one.
The counterfeiter never stands still in
his profession. He is always forging
ahead.
When it is one minute after 8 o’clock
it is past 8. When it is 30 minutes after
8 it is only half past 8.
First Tramp—“I say, have you taken
a bath?” Second Tramp (anxiously)—
“Not Is there one missing?”
A computation of the next census is
to include “animals not on farms.” The
cats that live on the back fences must
feel flattered.
‘‘Y'es,” said Mrs. Partington, “I’m
mighty afraid of ghosts, but I keep
them away from me by wearing an ome¬
let round my neck.”
“Miss Brooks,” said he, “areyou fond
of chestnuts?” “Yes,” she answered.
And then he fell on his knees and told
her the “old, old story.”
Aunt—“Well, Bobby, what do you
want to be when you grow up?” Bobby
(remembering private seances in the
woodshed)—“An orphan.”
“After I finish breakfast at Mrs. Slim
dict’s,” remarked Chumley, “I feel like
a martyr.” “I see,” ouserved Dumley,
“Y r ou have suffered at the steak.”
“My son, hoid up your hand and tell
who was the strongest man?” “Jonah.”
“Why so?” “’Cause the whale couldn’t
hold him after he got him down!”
“Miss Emma, I love you. Will you
not make me forever happy by sharing
my humble lot with me?” “Is tiiere a
nice little house on the lot, George?”
An exchange speaks of a tenor singer
who has “recovered his voice.” Ho
must have, as they say in base ball cir¬
cles, “knocked the cover off the bawl.”
“Another material,” says an exchange,
“has been found out of which paper
can be made.” Any man can make pa¬
per; the trouble is to get good indor¬
sers.
“The only color,” says a scientific
note, “that can be determined by the
sense of touch is blue.” True enough.
A man always knows when he feels
“blue.”
The meanest man up to.date is Snif
kins. He sold Jones a half interest in a
cow, and then refused to divide the
milk, maintaining that Jones owned the
front half.
“Isn’t this exhilarating?” said a pas¬
senger, who stepped out of the door of
the hot elevated car to the platform.
“No,” said the wicked guard, “it’s
Houston street.”
“How do you like my boots, love?”
exclaimed a youthful bride, i • Oh,
they’re immense,” replied the partner of
her joys. lie relished not her plum
pudding after that.
It is very sad, but ’tis true, also,
As e’er can be seen by studying fate,
That when a man thinks he’ll die early, you
know,
His eyes, you will find, will be sure to dilate,
Reciprocity.
A good story illustrating the rights of
children to get in a question or two in
reply to interrogatories by their elders
was told by a prominent physician hero
to a lady patient a day or two ago.
“Whose boy are you?” said the doctor
to a bright-looking youngster who was
playing in a patient's garden.
“Mr. Jim—'s. Whose be you?” wa3
the unexpected rejoinder .—Kingston
Freeman.
Spring Sickness
May be avoided by taking the popular spring medi¬
cine. Hood’s Sarsaparilla, in season. If you have
not felt well during the wintor, if you hare been
overworked, or closely confined in badly ventilated
rooms or shops, you need a goot tonic and blood
purifier like Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Take it early an l
you will ward off attacks of dis»ase or escape the
effects of impure Wood and that tired feeling so
common in the spring. Do not delay. Take Hood’s
Sarsaparilla now.
’’X wish to state the benefit I derived from Hood’s
Sarsaparilla. I have used it in he spring for three
years for debilii y and can say that I gained in flesh
and strength after using one bottle. It also cured
me of sick headache.”—M bs. F. H. Aspbews, South
Woodstock, Conn.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. *1; six for $5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD k CO., Apothecaries, Lowed. Mass.
IOO Doses One Dollar
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other well known vegetable remedies, in such a
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