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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1891)
( SWEATING BY ELECTRICITY. Clever .Japanese KoRUe* Who Can Ste»l Fifty Cents from an Kagle. The methods of the Japanese, who, for the purpose of defrauding the gov¬ ernment, will spend days on the scoop¬ ing out of a small silver coin, which lie eventually fills with baser metal, are much improved on in these progressive days. A large number of -hort weight gold coins are in circulation, and the frequency with which they are met with lias led to investigations which show that there has been for some time a systematic scheme for robbing the government by stealing metal from the coins. Home years ago a series of tests were made by the government for the pur pose of defining dual loss by abrasion in the moving of gold coins. It was found that five dollars was lost by abrasion every time $1,000,000 in gold coin as handled. Bags con taming $5,000 each were lifted to a truck to be removed to .'toother vault, and the mere lifling of the 200 bags caused the loss .‘•bated, and their trails fer from the truck again made a second fcimiJar loss. This shows liow readily gold can be removed from the coins, but this meth¬ od is much too slow for the clever rogues, who realize the value of scien¬ tific appliances. The work of abrasion is now done by electricity, after the manner of the electroplating of gold. An ordinary galvanic battery and some cheap acid is procured. The coin is placed in the fluid, and attached to it are wires from the poles of the battery, leading to another piece of metal prepared to receive, in the form of plating, the metal to be removed from the coin. Sufficient gold to form u plating i s quickly transferred, and, as it is removed uniformly from all parts of tlio coin, the liability of disfigure¬ ment. is reduced to a minimum, the only effect being to blur fhe characters slightly. In this way about fifty cents’ worth of gold can be removed from a ten dol¬ lar goldpiece without a very marked change in the appearance of the coin. The eye of an expert, however, detects the alteration at a glance. One of the employes in fhe New York sub treasury is said to have become so skilled in this branch of the work by years of experi¬ ence that lie can tell by mere touch, with closed eyes, whether a piece is spurious metal or has been tampered with. It is stated that the sweating of gold by electricity in this country is practiced almost entirely by foreign swindlers who have been driven from their own country for similar offenses.—Pittsburg Dispatch, Language of U mb roll as. There is i language of umbrellas ns of lloweiu For instance, place your umbrella in a rack and it will indicate that it will change owners. To open it quickly in tho street means that some body’s eye is going to bo put out; to shut it, that a hat or two is going to be knocked oil. An umbrella carried over a woman, Die man getting nothing but tho drip¬ pings of the rain, indicates courtship. When the man has the umbrella and tho woman the drippings it indicates marriage. To punch your umbrella mid then open it means “1 dislike you.” To swing your umbrella over your liead signifies “l am making a nuisance Of myself.” To trail your umbrella along the footpath means that the man behind you is thirsting for your blood. To carry it at right angles under your arm signifies that an eye is to lie List by the man who follows you. To open an umbrella quickly, it is said, will frighten a mad bull. To put a cotton umbrella by the side of a silk one signifies “Kxclmngo is uorobbery.” To purcim.se an umbrella means “1 am not smart, but honest.” To lend an umbrella indicates “I am n fool.” To return an umbrella means «—well, never mind what- it means, no¬ body does it! To carry an umbrella just high enough to t< ,u- out men’s eyes and knock off men’s hats signifies “1 am a woman.” To press an umbrella on your friend, Baying, “Oh, do take it; 1 had much rather you would than not 1” signifies lying. To give a friend half of your umbrella means that both of you will get wet, T< ii home in the morning men. ii will clear off.” Cricket. Hospltnl Nurst‘«' l’ntitks. Once in a while hospital gets a nurse who is full mischief, whost capers ket :> til on the look OUt ft!! p rr* q this kit , ,,,.rs ag>> La one of the lar? •st of local iusti lot that ti visiting ph\ girian on duty was n verv swell voune M. D., who often mode L rounds nfi t supper arrayt-l in a drvsa suit Miss H— didn’t tike this, and thought iq a scheme to remedy it. One of the pa tients war. a man, who entered into the seertt, and Miss II- rubbed bis wrists and hands a co ating of vase line t!i well young practi¬ tioner , ut in an r.ai- arance da-ssci tot a dance. Tie saw bis other patients, and then visited the man referred to. The doctor wore the thinnest of dainty white gloves, and after feeling the sick man’s pulse was surprised to find his wrist covered with a greasy substance. He raised a row about it, but nobody would discipline Miss II and it was notified that the doctor never appeared at the hospital afterward in a dress suit. The funniest feature of hospital life, the nurses say, lies in the fact that about 75 per cent, of young unmarried men whom they take care of fail in love with them. When a nurse pulls a young fellow through ft siege of serious illness he seems to feel in duty bound to propose marriage to the nurse.— Philadelphia Press. Khvx versus Kyt*«. “Why do people so universally put more dependence in the sense of hear ing than they do in the sense of sight?’’ asked a philosophically inclined New Yorker as he got off the elevated train at the bridge station. “1 did not know that they did,” re¬ marked the other. “I hear people say ‘f could hardly believe my ears’ quite as often as ‘I could hardly believe my eyes.’ ” “Well, just stand hero a minute and be convinced. On those great signs are painted as plainly as possible, ‘To the Bridge’ and ‘To the Street.’ They indicate unmistakably which way is which, yet a man lias to be stationed here all the time to answer the ques lion, ‘Is this the way to the bridge?’ You cannot doubt, for instance, that that well dressed woman can read, and I myself saw her look at the signs. Yet there she is asking the same old ques¬ tion of the patient guard. It is the same way all over the city. Ask any conductor how many people will taken train plainly labeled, ‘This train for Boston,’ without asking as they board it, ‘Does this train go to Boston?’ Peo pie certainly put more trust in ears than they do in eyes.”—Kate Field’s Washington. Strawberries. According to tests made at tlie Ohio experiment station there is about as much difference in strawberries as there is in cows—the one that prolongs its yield over the longest period gives the best crop and returns the most profit. As a rule, the earliest varieties have the shortest season and yield the lightest crop. The same is true, to a greater extent, with the very late varieties. The medium varieties—neither early nor late—give tlio largest yield and most profit. Again, the varieties that combine both sexes in one are not as irolific as those that produce only fruit. )ivision of labor counts here. Tlie production of pollen is as much of a tax on the plant as the production of fruit. “Give a plant nothing to do but grow and bear fruit and the work will lie better done than if an addi tional task is imposed.” This is more observable than it was a generation ago, when the Wilson was in its prime. These rules apply only to tho varieties that arc generally grown. There are some apparent exceptions, but much valuable time has been lost because these principles have been ignored.—D. D. T. Moore in Independent. Thu Xtlssittg 1 ’avi-n. One Saturday afternoon, according to their wont, two friends of the noble •game of chess sat playing together in a Frankfort cafe. Suddenly one of them started up from his seat in a passion ami exclaimed: “You have taken one of my pawns!” A glance at the board and men suf¬ ficed to show that a pawn was really missing. Tlie excitement over the lost pawn became so intense ttyit a lively altercation ensued, in which all tho other gentlemen in the room took part. Quiet was at last restored, and the player who had lost his pawn resumed his seat and began to drink his coffee, which was covered with thick cream, when he all at once got something into his throat which nearly choked him. lie succeeded, however, in extricat¬ ing the intrusive article, which turned out to be the missing pawn. The chess player, intent on the game, had thrown it into hi s cup in the place of a lump of sugar.—Wiener Exfcrablatt. Fishes Live to a Great Age. Crows are commonly said to live for URl years, and turtles are report'd to have even longer life; but if the late Professor Baird be right the greatest amount of longevity is possessed by fishee. 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