CONFEDERATE CASH.
TNIQUE COLLECTION OF PAPER
MONEY OWNED BY UNCLE SAM.
Business In Countevieiting —Deproe-
ciation of the Notes,
Hidden awnv among the are! ives of
the "Treasury Department is a euricus
volume which few people have ever look
wd into. Though nothing more nor less
than a scrap book, it is filled from cover
to cover with money, Altogether it holds
not less than $200,000. The
yet the whole of them would not be
wocepted to-day in payment for al
Hour or a box of soap. This because
Confederate notes and bonds, which com
15
at present nothing more than their value
a2 wasto paper, save in
spesimens are in demand by
Navertheless the volume is «
teresting by reason of the
vepresents the most compl
assemblage of the ‘‘shinpla ' put in |
circulation promises to pay by the
government of the South
Civil war,
tremely in
wt that
ors
us
during
book, the various issues of currency |
being arranged in clironological order
gue follows from start to ¢ h
of the greatest civil
world has cver secu.
nation is always told n
by its money. ‘Two y
confederate states pro
the inscription on the
very soon this is repls :
servative legend, setting the date of pay-
ment at ‘six months after ratification
of a treaty of peace between on
federate states and the United States”
snd this latter form holds up to the end
of the war, The money is patterned pretty
closely after Uncle
tines of steel engraving are
itated by the processes of
graphy. Why this method
employed is quite an «
dote in itself,
It will be remembered, perhaps, that |
Charles G. Meminger th Carolina
wp» taking office as the first secretary of
the confederate treasury made
with the American Bank Note Company
of New York for a supply of pay Hote
for $1,000, $500, $100 and £50,
swwder was filled, a const
of the currency being s
mond ard safely delivered
being found satisfactory the
ompany was requested to s
engraved plates. This was de
United States government
alert and socceeded in
plates on board of the ve
nveying them to Ri
wil
yes
the history
the
of nil
conflict that
Th \
wet interestingly
thi
©
Story
pe th
' read
but
notes
#& more con-
the «
Sam's, but the clear
terial
of Sout
L contract
rable
ped
gress very effeeti
srainst employing
ote Company to print
money, 18 action in lending
to the confederate government
nounced as disloyal,
Now, at the time when the war be (ran,
the American Bank Note Company had
a branch establishment Ne
which was conducted DY & man nam
Schmidt, Bubsequent to the e
sieseribed plates fo
£5 Noles were eng
from. This d r
Blanton Duncan, |
Reontucky regiment, st
establishment at Hichu
paper current y
contracts to }
treasury. Other
va for the same
for povernment
great, they all
At this period
tng in the south w
100, TE
presumably nn
the covernor of
public sentimen
the braoch offic
w Orleans,
vent just
£30, $10 aad
snk
Tel a
wind for produc
nour YY. Oohia
beair
being
pany, and copliscating s
the shape of plates tools, ¢
it among the lithog
1 these litho
himoud and
olumbia, 8B. C., coniinved to priut
paper money for the
up the
beginning to the end
Ear from $1.500.000,00) in
of various denomin
out and put into
Dyer Lhe scrap
une notices that rach bede is actually
sigoed in pen and ink with the names of
the treasurer and register of the treasury,
the serial number being put on in like
manner, This was accomplishad by em
woying clerks to sign for those officials
They were arranged to work in pairs, |
woe signing for the register and the other |
for the treasurer. The numbers
sdded by a third person, At the be gin
fing this labor was performed by men,
frat they were in such demand for fight.
fg purposes that women were substituted |
iater on Altogether 344 women and 68
men were engaged in this task during |
the war. They did the signing aud nom: |
bering of the notes by
were afterwards cut up.
Ono compluint that was made against |
Behridt was thut he was horribly slow,
and this was u very serious matter where |
there was an immediate necessity {or ol
most unlimited supplies of a nego tinhle
mediom. The lithographic establish. |
mdnts imported the paper and other
material in immense quantities by block.
ude runners from England. They also |
whtained from Great Britain their work: |
wes, nearly all of whom were Seoteh
men, The firms of Keating & Ball, at
Columbia, survived ali the other money
printing concerns, and toward the end
of the war they had all the contracts and
were the official engravers for the con.
federnte treasury. Their factory wis des.
troyed by General Sherman on his famous
raid of 1865. Ju 1864 because of the
vontinued quarrels among the different
people who did the printing of the our.
vency, the treasury appointed an officer
with the title of superintendent, whose
duty it was to conduct dealings with the
lithographic engravers and to superin.
tend all matters respecting the produc.
tion of the paper currency,
As if there hal not been other enuses
saflicient to depreciate the value of the
vonfederate currency that government
was still further em by the
on an enormous scale of
onfederate treasury
of the
Lo close
» 5
From the
¢
of the conflict not
war,
shinplasters
Fi
afinns
turned
{.ookin
book described
Ww
tion,
curions
were |
sheots, which
spiished forgers in the Bermudas and
fairly accurate imitations of
and bends of the southern states,
certain t
ployed {
the money-printing establishments which
supplied shinplasters for the support of
the war, and in this way they were ablo
impressions made
matrices from the original lithographic
Thus they had no difliculty in
reproducing the bonds und notes
It is
Liat these criminals actually em-
to Secure on
stones,
Nusterteifing
Rts fssues of paper money. Gangs of pe:
simile,
than
tehing
fits were apt to be a little biggoer
the ¢
current at par,
n to deprect fe however,
alue had fallen
Toward the end
<0 little that one
a millionaire in order
Milk cost %40 a quart,
corded instance a scuthern
At the beginning of the war
' paper money wi
mi
x
o about HO pet cont,
it was worth
to Iu
“all,
modest lunch at a restaurant
about
At the
currency
Yery
a meal as one could get for
Washington now.
confeder: 'y the
) cent and a fraction
An ex of
if Washington, told
\ \
donel volun
the write
hich
story of
{he
an
Potomac
As
the enemy
viaen rm
of
of
won trains
they were pillaged {
ind the funds of
ut $30,000 of
ized was cram
nn
med into a gunuv-sack and delivered to
the officer quoted Iu res;
jucest the entire s
geant
he had able to dispose
rate of $5 on
presumption
WOT Ges
Loa It
1
$1 I LO a ser
sho afterward informed him that
of it at the
£100 to confedrates, the
that the
pected to be able to use it profit
KRY
hyn 1
being latter
parts of the south where the currcacy
had not vet dropped to nothing in value,
i YW ashin
ton Sar
~ * -
The Great Wall of China.
ery from
I he
the
ths
Lid
Wil
nigh, raf
i tower above us on t
i
ndy slain '
real canay plains ol
, have shown
Fis like 1
their supremacy
of ti r civilizati
in
phe ny
immed the
ire
ane
jars ssible Vi
assert
oT
superiority 1, we {003
furs
AROUND THE HOT SE.
wry §
mi
You should alw
that a mirror will
a clouded surface, no matic dili-
rubbed, it is hunny where the
f the sun shine upon it.
iIvR Tem 1 Liftiap
wives, surcly present
r how
if
direct rays of
Tomatoes or lemon jules
stains, often upon one’s clothing,
discoloration can be easily and
This
entirely
of ammouia,
In stamping letters it |
ter to wet the nvelopes than the stanips,
for this does not remove any of the
stamps,
end the stamp is not so liable to be lost
from the letter,
Marble ix a very difficuit article to
clean if it is stained in such a way that the
stain bois sunk into the stone.
staibhs may be removed with a pumice
stone or with vigorous serubbing,
paste of fuller's earth applied in the
i
THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH.
Tan Vinrves or Yawsine, — The Med
for it often curcs
ae,
in many giving instantaneous re
livf, It produces considerable disten
Cises
of massage, and under
the cartilaginous 3
eustachian tube contracts,
ar
influcnee
of the
this
tion
6
there collected, According to M,
{i
jis
cious for affections of the tube than thy
ind is
more rational than the insufflation of
air, which Is often diflicult to perform
properly.
Dimitra As Viewed ny
"MYSICIANS Some time ago the
Health Association
AMERIOAN
Aneri
proposed
ry,
what median and channels does
specific rause of diphtheria gain entrance
to the human organism! To this inquiry
the opinions are nearly all favorable to
median; food and water:
air passages, mouth, inoculation
bv
air, channels
it would appear, the prevalent
of professional
and throat are
lv finds a
ohservers 1s tha
the parts upon w
\
uss lodgement
Of the olse Fryers bel de Ye
ed by the air,
but
convey
drinking water, 1
the fingers, on spooos, knives, ol
A large majority dos
y
: : :
disease Ding caused
by food.
about
the
nliom tines, Or condition
believe in
germs, and
ducts deve lop «dd within ti body ind
necific CAUSES
: .
while
that
subject
164
#IXiS
anima
leper d
) : nearly
believe domestic
nr y the disea
infect human belogs
Ergcrneorry 1x Mgpicing
mous strides made by the
¢ amd indu tries
been to a certain extent
applicati wi of electricd
and Fhe
turns the the dentist,
ind in the
the
cine surgery ele
drill of bores
all the noses of man hand
the
ot, and may run the saw
trephine of the Fhe
i |
trie ga
is made
aed in
muscies
fel midis
¢ in members the
Iimbes, a
wii
rupted and the
Sh
and 1a vilen The
working of electricity in
3
Nervous sy
than in the maladies men
em is much more
joned
- i Cats
phoresis produce effects at once apparent
to the senses,
objec tively the value of elec tricity in sone
of the chronic
tleal has to bw ac cept « on faith.
Not able to demonstrale
nervous diseases, a great
There
value here, and many incline to
the idea that suggestion has a good deal
do with improvement font
this kind treated
Besides its employment as a therapeutic
lectricity has considerable value as
measured by the rheostat is redueed in
exophthalmic goitre and increased in
hysteria, The moscular contractions pro
paris of the nervous system nre so differ
Ie ix said that
which is a powerful poisbn, and which
tricity in paralysis doe to lesions in the
brain, ax an example, that their differen.
tiation constitutes an important aid
ing into the stone,
Bears Beeathe Kasier,
Southern Oregon hunters are just now
movraing the death of John Griffin's
famous bear doy, who died a natural
death a day or two ago. Trailer was the
hero of more than a hundred bear fights
in the mountains of Seuthern Oregon,
yrigeipally in the Siskivous. Griffin has
ept a record of Trailer's achievements
during his lifetime, including those
treed, brought to bay, and run into
caves, where thoy were shot, besides
eatching numerous panthers, wildcats,
ete, — San Francisco Chronicle.
another. Then, too, in the surgery of
the birin and spinal cord which has new.
ly sprung into existence, clectric stimu.
i
§
i
In-
deed, much of our knowledge of the
ioealization of functions in different parts
of the surface of the braiy is owing to
olectricity made use of by physiologists
in their marvellous experimental ro.
searches in cercbral domains. Altogether
electricity occupies an extensive Pinte in
the armamentarium of the physieian. Ali
nfo of the human ecoiomy are explored
yy its beneficent light, there is no
oell wo secretly hidden that it may not be
influenced by this wondorful force which
may be made to pencteate skin, muscle,
bone, Mood, etves, aod Yiutera, No
one can yet place a limit upon its possi-
bilities as a remedial agent, for cach year
forms
pew methods are made
noble warfare against the diseases which
| hand It is net
fies looked
yMiciion,
assnls mankind on very
men Have som
r aid for
irhini
drawn {ron
bee :
Oh i fricna
{New York Suu,
Hn
RELIABLE RECIPES,
Pascunen Laos alt the water well,
immering drop lghtiv each
eer into it, Cook
throwing carefully
from the side
When
the «
ofl
it
1 Sin
pier
ts top
th
pec
un fittl alt
muflin ring
in shag
Firphant and Locomotive,
The ret
fi
and
woree for the ou fs riers
1 that
res : { i i fwioen
- so much the
That
will
a lo-
condi-
a report from
grown
{ the milway near
then coolly
tween the mils,
Mandalay shortly
and,
inkl the sparks
wnt turned and
pningonist
track, but
f It was swept
away with such force that the carcass
wag hurled down vwukment with
the skull et An elephant of
it three or four
article one had at-
the charge which
® to its valiant career,
na most gerd
An elephant with 4 thin skull
sun hardly expect to be victorious in a
conflict of this kind: nevertheless, the
escape of the train without injury fs
very fortuoate « [Hong Koug Gazette,
EYON § TON nimal in 4 eon
fail to score a tou WD Ne
weep
tions, is aniply
Siam.
5
inst
comolive, « vorable
{ som at a fall ele
walked down nl i
tra
pas HE nranoo,
©
charged the unknown
The train kept on thy
aly €30
isle
WO
| &
LEN
tone, ami
talned any speed io
The practice of saying "God bless
you!” whenever a person sneezes must be
widespread indeed when wo find a simi.
lar salutation, #3 buka! (literally, equals
live!) obtaining among the Fijians of the
South Pacific, n race developed by the
blending of the Malayo-Pelynesians with
the Papuans, the Fiji group being the
borderland between the two, It has
been said by a London physician that
one i nenrer death at the actus] moment
of sneezing than at any other period of
ono's life, Herein, perhaps, lies the
renvon for the kindly wish, and may ac.
Sount for the prevalent ides that it is
i
CLLA T"ODRIDA,
+ Uentury Dic.
.
Hare? t Ww yr} in th
\ y
goluryngeal
stan ean plead infan
does
sid
not
is du
HATS
dves in
i of 830.000
Hussia des
head
HO OH
tpparentiy »
fF TROT ne,
L few nd
thd al
i J
TH
Hun
{1 i
fins Lures, has
b tan’ Philade Lhia |
Magazine for Uh tyes ves of
raised | i hive : ¢
times p
iy Hi
i
vertisemoent
Curio
163]
The
richest eonuntnity
bat 1.5080 in
En, 000.000 deposit
Freasury in Wa
frnw £100 MX) in
Are
tiie
Bally
Hazors,
A Mighty Haul of
A Curlous Damage
i Brockport
stadlion « Combing
ction for $20.1
Con
Lean the result
an operator in Rochester
ago the horse was injured
cident, aod Sloat a telephone
sage to Dr. Edward Crandall, a vel
Ary
come to Brockport on the first train,
The receiving operator substituted
Fairport for Brockport and signed the
pame of ¥F. KE. Smith. The message was
sent to Dr. Crandall’s office and he went
jrumedistely to the New York Central
Station, only to find that the local tin
for the East had just gone. A teasin for
Brockport, however, was standing in the
station house, a messenger was seat after
the doctor by Sloat, snd the surgeon
finally reached Brockpert after several
hours delay. He was foe late to bo of
aid to the animal, sithongh, so the piain
tiff staves, the injuries would not
resulted seriously if the doctor had ar
rived promptly. [Now York Tinea,
YOAar ny
wh
SUTReOn nh i
The Cosmopolitan
The January Cosmopolatan a rich in
lustmtigh sod varied in interest, [t
opens with a description of the manner of
making an illustrated magazine (meaning,
of course, jtseify, this being the frat is
sue from its own printing office,
with the mysteries of a printing office
greatly, and it is illustrated by portraits
of its Jeading contributors, the sumber
of whan will bs a surprise, Among the
illustegtod papers in this number are
“Four Famous Artiste,” by Ger
ald Campbell ; “ Japan Revia.
ited,” by Bir Edwin Arnold;
“‘Reautios of the American Blage,” by
Joseph P. Read and William 8B. Walsh;
“I'he Confessions of an Autograph Hun-
ter,” by Charles Robinson; '° s Bug:
lish Laureates,” by RH. Stoddard;
“The Muses of Man "by Brander
Matthews; “Grant Under Fire,” by Theo.
dore R. Davis; and “The Wheel of Time,”
a serial novel, by Henry James, In ad.
dition there are several poems and two
domplete stories (the Iatter by W. D.
Howells and Louise V. ; wall
the new your
YOu THE YOUNG FOLKS
HOME VinsT,
i TAWnY Cut,
Afraid of mouse or rat;
y mother said one ds
take that cat
fost hier 10 ine styl
from home a mile,
were Lo tell
our tak so
wide the door
nt on the floor!
New York World
the Chi
sly rom
do
in all
HELM
i pry
LOriIlons
Kegs? I
Cr Suess
»
TO}
ney
have a different
suse of that
c a :
viel we Ao
Year's Day the
Foes
t off to kes
» pager iw fare
i iO
0 evil wit LH
the New
serial we ti
yd at bedtime
tabyie,
rvices
exporter
fireworks of ¢
NIGHT YUN
lots of fom for an
hides peanuts
pee
places about the
ro or thre
the
certain time the
The one who bh
ther wins the first pn
Twi is
prize 8
ving fewe
ar
orreal Bnort
Teal EPOrs
ftp 10 sie who
i%
anuts in one hand
her. A man ©
sad to be a
+ who have tried it
rewarded,
i»
nod ugrht
y is
hos
ris to be
mast
SO, CON
The on
potatos: rom
bp river
AT Dal
P ato,
enit
“EVRY
uoOn a
Among them
still in short
teil 4
wanda
destined
fifteen-year
compani
for exec
in front of the cold
Making
good deal of gra
fweort
to shoot m
* gad the colonel
vour }
s
is ands, it's
That ix the order.”
said the bev. “‘Buat
» in Miromesnil sirect, where
is concierge in a homse,
if I don’t come hame,
and a great deal. 1 just
want to go home and quiet her a bit,
sou know; and then again, I've got my
\ here: I'd like to give it to my
mother, ao she'll have ss mach as that,
anyway. Come Colonel, let me run home
a little while. I give you my word of
honor 1"1l come back to be shot!”
The Colonel was struck with astonish.
ment at the boy's demand, Tt also began
to amuse him a good deal.
“You give me vor word of honor, eh,
that vou'll return in time to be executed I™
“My word of honor, mister!”
“Well, well,” said the colonel, “this
young scamp has wit as well as assurance.
A rather young rebel to shoot, too! Well,
his assurance has saved him. Go home,
boy I”
The youth bowed and seampered off.
“The lest we shall sce of him,” said
the colonel,
Hialf an hour passed by; the colonel,
who was now indoors in his headquar
ters, had forgotten, in the of his
terrible business, all about the boy, whom
he regarded as having been definitely set
free. Dut all at once the door opened
and the boy comniunist popped in,
“Hera 1 am, mister!” be exclaimed.
“I saw mamma, told ber, gave her the
watch, and kissed her. Now I'm ready ™
Then the colonel did pnd pn
none but a rough soldier w have
done. He rose, came over to the boy,
seized him by both ears, lod him thus to
the door and kicked him out of it, oy-
claiming :
“yet out, you young brigand! Get
back to your mother just as as you
can!
With a red face the officer returned to
his chair, muttering to his companions
ss he waved his hand toward a party of
the condemned insurgonts:
“80 they have their heroos,
those scoundrels” [Boston Traveller,
An
she'll worry
pate 5]
Tx population of London now ex-
coeds that of New York, Brooklyn, Phil.