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              PAPER MONEY SMELLS BAD
When You Receive a Package of Paper Money from the Bank, Don't Put it to Your Nose for a Smell.   It is Not White Clover.
Strength of Paper Money.
Picking up a bill of the paper money of the country, imagine, if you can, where that bill may have been, into what sort of places and into the possession of what class of people, since it was issued new and crisp. All this is conjecture, but there is no doubt about the smell. A package of money, much as we desire to possess it, is suggestive of nastiness in the highest degree. You are willing to pocket a package if you can, but you will not bring it to your nose more than once by free consent. A one dollar bill by its individual smell, may be suggestive of leprosy, smallpox, itch or other disease. Tellers in banks no doubt incur risks sometimes. But there is some¬ thing besides smell in considering the strength of paper money. Bank notes stand much handling.
That Uncle Sam's notes stand a great deal of rough and careless handling is a fact that impresses itself upon any one who has ever chanced to note the manner in which the average cashier pulls and jerks the bills before he pushes them through the window to the waiting patron.
A single treasury note measures three and one-eighth inches in width by seven and one-fourth inches in length. It will sustain, without breaking, lengthwise, a weight of forty-one pounds; cross¬ wise, a weight of ninety-one pounds. The notes run four to a sheet— a sheet being eight and one-fourth inches wide by thirteen and one- half inches long. One of these sheets lengthwise will suspend io8 pounds, and crosswise 177 pounds.
It will be observed that a single note is capable of sustaining, crosswise, a weight of ninety-one pounds, which is twice the amount by nine pounds, of the weight the note can sustain lengthwise; while in the case of the sheet, the crosswise sheet lacks thirty-nine pounds of double the sustaining power of the lengthwise sheet.
Notes of the Bank of England are never passed out a second time. A note issued this morning and coming in during the day's business, is not allowed further circulation, no matter how crisp and new. They are destroyed and newly numbered ones take their places, therefore a Bank of England note is not likely to carry or breed disease. These notes are not pretty, but they possess the merit of being clean.
Except that the notes are not destroyed but are filed away in