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Show I ( v ; Germs in Paper Money I Tho fear or contagion from dlsonao microbes which our ancestors never felt bocauso "Ignornnco was bliss" to them seems to bo putting its bnn upon one thing nrtcr another. Ono may not Indulge longer In clams, oysters, watercress, wa-tercress, spinach, lettuce, shaving, kissing, public library books, feather dusters and numerous everyday necessities neces-sities without taking antiseptic pro-cautions. pro-cautions. Now comes a chemist at Washington who has found a greenback green-back which was tho favorite resort of 144 different kinds of tho dtseaso microbes. mi-crobes. Startled by' tho announcement, announce-ment, some brokers alrendy are moving mov-ing to protect cashiers and tellers by disinfecting all currency. One Boston scientist has suggested tho placing of cotton waste, saturated with formaldehyde. In the safe or money drawer, and another, the poun .lng.ot a. spoonful of It, in a vault each night, which hoanla of -health, sny will 'destroy- millions of germs.' Somo, bnhkers nro Inclined to sniff at the precautions. Thoy rightly nflirm thnt tho microbe, though n comparatively new discovery, is as old as time, thnU H paper money Is nearly as old as tlinoj J thnt Cashiers and tellers have boon' - handling tho mlcrobo and tho cur- H rency without destroying the ono "ori M sterilizing tho other, and that they H were healthy and long lived, ovon though they directly exposed thorn-! eclves by putting their Angers to their! ,. H lips when counting money, which, -,-':nH -cashiers nnd tellers no longor do. . ppih Tho mlcrobo and money matter, f(. J It should occasion any widespread npi "H prehension of contagion, will make H life much harder than It is now. Woj H muBt have raonoy, oven with microbes H on It, nnd cannot Btop to Inquire who) had It last or through how many j 'CViiiH pockets It Iiub passed, gathorlng nej 'itpiH styles of microbes at every remove. i 'piH If tho microbes would conflno them-1 SiiiB selves to f 1,000 bills It would not boN " H so bad, because they do not clrculato" -H so freely ns fives do, but the mlcrobo fl . is no rospecter of bills. Tho nilcrobeigr- m- M might 'havo omo'dnch"ltXlnfltTdIm?fW tho $1,000 bills, but it can And dollar, T'T? H bills with case, and thoy nro softer' H I and more homellko than tho othors.y v H |