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Show junmimnm money. Financiers are discussing the advisa-Oility advisa-Oility of the question of replacing the material of the bank notes and bonds with aluminium, which has already ; served its purpose in the manufacture ot visiting cards and postal cards. It is stated that coins might be made of the new metal, these coins to be worthless exoept so far as the guarantee of the bank is concerned in placing a value on them. Henry Bessemer, the great Eng iish steel manufacturer, is warmly espousing es-pousing the idea and recommends th making of such bonds, which, in th shape of a coin, are exceedingly light, fireproof and difficult . to melt so that they are free from all the disadvantages possessed by paper money. Bessemei eays that he has already perfected a process which prevents counterfeiting Euch coins, making it more difficult to counterfeit than paper money, for phew lithography has made it easy to imitate the most skillful design, and the nlj safeguard is the secret process of naak lag e paper. St Louis Pest-Dispctoh . |