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Show Wonderful MrrlianUni. Tlie Ilank of England doors are now so finely balanced that a clerk by presslngn kuobunder his di-sk can elnot-tl.u outer doors Instantly, and the cannot be opined again except by sjieclal prrit. This is done to present the daring and Ingenious In-genious unemployed of the gn-il mctroiolis from robbing this famous institution. The bullion departments depart-ments of this and other great l.n-glili l.n-glili banking etabli-hnicnts arc nightly submergsl In several feel of water b) the action of machimry. In some of the Iudoii banks tho bullion departments are counected with the sleeping rooms and an entrance en-trance cannot be tllected without silting otr.it! alarm near that lcr-son'slirad. lcr-son'slirad. Ifa dishonest ollleii!. during either da or night, should take en as much as one from a pile-of pile-of a thousand sovereigns, tiio whole pile would immediately sink and a pool of water take Ha place, besides lettimr eery per-on lu theeslablNh-ment theeslablNh-ment know of the theft. r. |