The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-03
THE EXACT WEIGHT
OF u. s. MONEY
DO YOU THINK YOU CAN aFT A
FORTUNE IN SILVER COINS?
TzcO Hundred Pounds of Quarters Would
Give You Only $s,0s7, Whils the
Same Weigh Of Gold Would Gi0e
s4,o5o-Wdght of Paper Money.

81 wish I had all the money ! could
lift" How many of the thousands who
make this get-rich-quick wish have any
idea of the amount they would have If
the wish should be granted. Few name the
denomination Of the money on which they
desire to test their strength, perhaps be-
lieviTg that their lifting powers would
make them wealthy no matter what kind
CT money they lifted
If they were asked how much they
could lift in silver or small bills the
majority probably would name some
fabulous sum which investigation would
show several men could not bulge. In
gold or in paper money Of large denomi-
nations the ordinary individual would
be able to lift fair sized fortune, but
to win a million by lifting it in anything
| less than twenty dollar bills would need
the strength of a veritable Sandow.
An official of the subtreasury. who is
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 and
! paper.
"Well," he reeplied, "a man could
make money on that proposition if he
could get hold of paper money Of large
denominations, but on the smaller bills
silver and geld he would not be. mil
lionaire by any means.
"The weight OF. money is very decep.
tive. For. instance, young man, q
| friend of mine, came in to see me one
| day with 4 his hance Il was showing
them through my department and asked
my friend if he thought the young woman
was worth her weight in gold. He die
think so, most emphatically, and after as
certaining that Their weight was one Io1
pounds we figured that she, would, b
worth in gold coin exactly $sS,647. He
! fance thought@sthat would sbei pretty
cheap. Sr, ~ =
| "Perhaps more people are deceived
on the weight of paper money than OF
the metals Now, how many one dolla
| bills do you think would be necessary II
i weigh as much as a five dollar golt
piece?"
Fifty was ventured as a guess. and TIL
statistician laughed.
81 have had guesses on that all til
way from so to 500" he said, "ant
some of them from men who hav,
handled money fer years. AS a matte
| of fact, with five dollar gold piece il
or, scale you would have to put abou
| six and half bills in the other Il
balance it."
| He produced figures to prove that
five dollar gold piece weighed two hun
dred and nincty-six thousandths of Al
ounce avoirdupois. An employee VIII
makes the new bills Up in packages Q
100 each said that hundred bills weighed
tour ard. enc half ounces. That woulc
make one bill weigh forg-ive thousandth
of an ounce, and between six and sevei
would balance lie gid piece.
Figures On the lifting propositicE
were furnished from the dePartmen
where the money is weighed in bag
as standards. The standard amour
for geld coin, 5000, weighs eighteer
and half pounds. Five hundred 81
yer dollars weigh thirty-fve and hal
pounds, and 500 in half dollars, or 100
coins, weighs eleven pounds. Taking
zoo pounds as good lift for an average
man, these results were obtained.