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Show j How Bank of England Notes Ar; Made. i Bank of England notes are made from j now white linen cuttings never from ' anything that has been worn. So carefully care-fully is the paper prepared that even the number of dips into the pulp made by each workman is registered on a dial by 1 machinery, and the sheets are counted j and booked to each person through whose j hands they pass. They are made at La-t La-t verstroke. on the river Whit, in Hampshire, Hamp-shire, by a family named Portal, descended descend-ed from a French Huguenot refugee, and have been made by the same family for more than ISOyears. About 1860 a large quantity of the paper was stolen by one of the employes, which caused the bank a great deal of trouble, as the printing is a comparatively easy matter, the great difficulty with forgers being to get the paper. They are printed within the bank building, there being an elaborate arrangement ar-rangement for making them so that each note of the 6ame denomination shall differ dif-fer in some particular from the other. St. Louis Republic, - - |