Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1910-02-23
THE Weight OF MONEY
DO You IhSk You Could Lift a
Fortune In Silver Coins7
IF You DO YOU ARE MISTAKEN

Two Hundred Pounds 81 o..r..
Would Give You Only g c57- Mil.
the Same Weight e c-.i wouId
Give se4.oSo-weisht Of Paper Money
Il wish had all the money I could
mt! How many OF the thousands
who make THIS get-rich.uulch wish
nave any idea OF the .u,oui,, ,ha,,
would have IL the wish shaiild. no
granted. Few name the denomination
OF tue money on which they desire TO
test their strength. perhaps believing
that their lifting powers would mako
'nen wealthy no matter what kind OF
money they lifted.
III they were asked how much they
could lift in silver or small bills tho
majority probably would name come
fabulous sum which Investigation
would show several men could NOT
bulge. ln gold or I'm paper money of
large denominations the ordinary in
dividual would be able to III a fair
sized fortune. but To- win a million nv
lifting ii IN anything less than twenty
ooiiar bills would need the strength
of veritablc Sandow.
An official Of the subtreasury who f.
Interested IN odd statistics In his de-
partment was asked how much money
the average man could lift IN the vari-
Gus denominations OF gold. silver ana
paper.
Wen. he replied. u man could
make money on that proposition II he
could get hold Of paper money OF large
denominations. but on the smaller bilIs
SILVER AMI I'D he would not be a
mi.iiorairc 10y any means.
The weight OF money is very de
ceptive. For instance. a young man.
friend or mine. came In Ia see mo
one day with lis nancec / was show
Ing them through NIX department and
asked my friend II he thought the
young woman was worth her weight
In gold. lie did think SO most enphnt-
icaliy. and after aScertaining that her
weight was one loT pounds we fig
ured that she would b. 81, sih In gold
coin exactly S-S.C.T i.r Hancee
thought that wou.d i.c - chcap.
Perhaps more Ner .. deceived
on the weigat II paper ., 81 than ca
the metals. NOW. how many one dol
lar bills 10 you thlnk would be neces.
sary TO WEIGH us much as tive dol
lar gold picceF''
Fifty WAS yentured as a guess. and
the statistician laughed.
i have had gucsscs on tina; all the
way from - TO 600" nc said. and
some of them from men who have
handled money Tor years. As a mat
ter Of fact. with live dollar gold
piece IN one scale you would have 10
pat about six and half bills I'm the
other 10 balance it
lie produ.cd Ggu.s 10 prove that q
Eve dollar gold piece weighed two
hundred ard ,.inety-six thousandths OF
an ouncc avoirdupois. An employee
who makes the new bills up I'm pack
ages OF 100 each said that a hundred
bills weighed four and oue-half ounces
That would make one bin weigh forty
I've thousandths OF an ounce. and be.
tweeh six and seven would balance
the gold piece.
firures ON the lifting proposition
were furnished from the department
where the money is weighed In bags
rs standards. The standard amount
for gold coin. 5000. weighs eighteen
aud a half pounds. Five hundred sill
yer dollars weigh thirjy-hve and a half
pounds. and 500 I'm half dollars. or
iOO coins. wcichs eleven pounds. Tax.
ing 200 pounds as good lift FOR an
average man. these results were oh
tained: