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Show Weight or French Honey. A Frenchman, who evidently revels in handling large Bums of money, has compiled some entertaining statistics with regard to tho weight of a milliard of the French coin of tho realm. Ac cording to him a milliard in silver weighs 10,000.001 pounds; in gold 645,100 pounds; in 1,000 franc checks, 2.oG0 pounds, and in 100 franc checks, 23,000 pounds. Assuming that a carrier car-rier could carry two hundred weight, 18 men would be required to carry a milliard in 1,000 franc checks, 115 men for the sum in 100 f ratio checks, 3. 225 men in gold and 60,000 in sil. ver. A milliard in 1,000 franc checks would make 2,000 volmncsof 500 pages each. Boston Herald. |