Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-08-22
PAPER MONEY.
THE DIFFERENT KINDS ISSUED BY
( VARIOUS FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 4

A Bank OF England Note-Banque de
France-German, Austrian and italian
Bills -aussia's Many Cclored Currency.
Note. Of the United states.
At almost any hour OF tho day eager and
hungry eyed men and boys may be seen
feasting their eyes on the glittering heaps
Of coin and the thiA bundles of bank notes
spread In tempting array behind the plate
glass windows of the money changers in
Wall street and vicinity. ut is surpris-
ing" said Nassau street broker, ''how
many different kinds of paper we use for
currency In the various foreign countries.
Each nation seems to have It's own
particular kind or brand of paper. Here
Is Bank of England note. It Is printed
on Irish linen water lined paper, plain
white, with rough edges. You viii notice
in short time how the paper lacks the
smooth. oily feeling of our own bank
notes. Then, again, there Is an alb.
sence Of any coloring except black and
white. The smallest notes issued by
the Bank Of England are Of the value of
e5 or $25. The old fashion of sending
these notes from one country to another
was to cut the note into two parts and
send the pieces In separate ENVELOPES, but
ssilat is largely done away with. All such
notes finally find their way back to the
Bank of England, whsrc they are retired
for good. They are neynr reissued, as the
bank only sends out new. clean notes. |
have heard 1t said that the average life OF
q Bank Of England note was about three
weeks. A Bank Of Ireland note, as you
viii see, does not differ much from Bank
of England note, except that it has o more
elaborate scroll work.
This note with blue and black letter
ing, together with numerous symbolical
pictures, Is Banque de Franco note. 1t
is made Of plain white paper, and could
be easily initiated. should think. The
smallest note issued by the banque is a
2Gf. note, while the largest is the 1,O00f.,
which Is equivalent to about $3.50 in our
money. .N,..
Now, the German bills are printed in
green upon paper good deal lighter than
our gold certificates. The Austrian paper
currency is printed much the same. The
German bills range in denomination from
fye marks, or $1.25, to 10000 marks, or
about S240 of our money. Very few no
tice at first glance that the Austrian bills
are printed In German on one side and in
Hungarian on the other. This is done, as
understand, to accommodate the ten
classes of Francis Joseph's subjects.
The paper of an Austrian bill is very
light colored, but quite thick and tough.
It has none of the fine lines nor the silk
fiber marks which are the characteristics
of our national or United States treasury
notes. The smallest Austrian note is OF
the value of one guilder or form, nsarly
40 cents here. The largest note Issued is
of the value Of LOCO forms, or 1886 in
our money. The engraver must have
been Of religious turn Of mind, If all the
angel heads on these notes are of any in.
dication.
Some European countries get up their
notes regardless of colored ink. Thus the
Italian 900 lire note is an elaborate af-
fair. The paper is plain white, but the
printing Is done in pink, blue and car
mine. Here Is one which has a very
finely engraved vignette of King Hum
bert, and the scroll work will compare
favorably with the best of any currency.
The smaller Italian bills are about the
same size as our old fractional currency.
They vary In denomination from one lire,
or 20 cents, to 10 Gre, or about 50 in ouI
money.
Here, perhaps, is the most gorgeous1y
colored bank note of any European coun.
try. It is o Russian 100 ruble bill. II
has almost every color of the rainbow,
barred from top to bottom, as though II
had been thrown through prism. The
100 ruble bill Is quite large, being,
think, four by ten inches in size. Here
In the center, Is portrait Of Catherine L
The paper is not Of an especially fine
quality, while the lettering Is done with
dark and light brown ink. The Is and IL
ruble notes are much smaller and almost
free from any elaborate display Of colors
The note mostly used is the ruble, OF
about $2.25 in our money"
After looking at various other speci
mems Of foreign paper money, we inquired
whether outside of the business ex
changes, there was much used.
eyes; there Is quite call for foreign
bills, especially at this season of the year
when SO many thousands are going to and
coming from Europe Curiously enough
some people will not take paper money
The French and Germans almost always
ask for coin, and say that they do not
want the paper bills. The Austrians and
Hungarians are just the opposite. They
generally prefer the paper money of theh
own country to coin. The Americans
usually want coin. AS one traveller sale
TO mo not long ago, Gold Is good for Its
face value all over the world, and caf
get It EXCHANGED II Iwant bills The
Italians who go back to sunny Italy,
found, are not very particular. They
would Just as soon take lire notes as lire
coins" ~
Taking engraving and paper into con
sideration, what country do you thinl
turns out the best hottest"
"WeIl, with due regard for our English
cousins, / think that the United States
notes beat the world Take the item Of
paper alone. OF course, during the rebel
lion the government was obliged to issue
within very short time enormous
amounts of paper money in place of gold
and silver, which seemed to have beer
suddenly swallowed up. The government
then used only plain, commercial banl
note paper, which gave the counterfeiters
q good chance to flood the country with
notes like the old greenback issue. But
about twenty years ago. the treasury de
partment adopted special paper, the dis
tinctive feature of which was narrow
localized line of short blue fiber running
| the entire length of the sheet of paper
in such manner as not to lessen It'll
strength or interfere with the printing.
Ibid you ever examine the paper of s
| United States note under glass?
mo; well, If you would you would SCI
that these fbers have the appearance Of
coarse black hairs, of all lengths an6
shapes, scattered pronniscuously all ovel
| the surface of the note. This kind Of
| paper Is known as the Wilcox patent.
| few years ago che government adopted
another feature of the fiber paper will
two silk threads running lengthwis,
| throughout the glazed surface. There
is now law against person using o.
| adopting this kind Of paper for any obi
cation or security, except under the an
thority of the secretary Of the treasury.
"Let me tell you, concluded my patri
| otto informant, that we make more
money and better money than any othel
| people in the world. New York Cor
Globe Democrat.
A Bridge for the Nose.
DR.. 81. D. Burrell, surgeon of the City
and Carney hospitals, II. Is who has made
the discovery In the way Of furnishing q
bridge for the nose. AZ the time spoken
Of above m otherwise fine looking woman,
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