Show Aluminium Money Financiers are discussing the 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 o3 visiting cards and postal cards It is stated that coins might bo made of the new metal these coins to be worthless except so far as the guarantee of the bank is concerned in placing a value on them Henry Bessemer the great English Eng-lish steel manufacturer is warmly espousing es-pousing the idea and recommends tb4 making of such bonds which in thq 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 says that he has already perfected a process which prevents counterfeiting such 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 only safeguard is the secret process of making mak-ing the papcrSt Louis PostDispatch I |