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Show Weljfht of French Money. A Frenchman, who evidently revels in handling large sums of money, hits compiled some entertaining statistics with regard to the weight of a milliard of the French coin of tho realm. Ac cording to hint a milliard in silver weighs 10,000,000 pounds; in gold (jib. 100 pounds; in 1,000 franc cheeks, 2,500 pounds, and in 100 franc checks, 23,000 pounds. Assuming that a carrier car-rier could carry two hundred woightk 18 men would bo required to carry a milliard in 1,000 franc checks, 115 men for the sum in 100 franc- checks, 3, L'25 men in gold and 60,000 in silver. sil-ver. A milliard in 1,000 franc checks would make 2, 000 volumes of 500 pages each. Boston Herald. |