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Show BANK OF EWOULND XOTEaV . About the year 'Hit a areat outrry waa raised a r Inst the Bank of Knaland ior ant adopting a style of note thst could not he Imitated and at the aame time preventing pre-venting the earrtflre of life which at (hat period waa oonrnion, the punishment for forx.ry being death. The subject St last Decerns so pressing that the government appointed commissioner to Investigate ths cause of the numeraire fnrgerlse snd I whether a mode could be devised whereby where-by the forging of bans aotea might be prevented, ' Previous to this Investigation tha directors di-rectors of the bank had been endeavoring to remedy the evil, many plana having been euhmltted touhenn, all of wbkb Iber were oolfxfd to r)ecl. The bank ptsced before the oommls-slouers oommls-slouers lS different projects that had been recommended for adoption and aev-enty aev-enty varieties of psper made by way of experiment. The result of aU this Jabor waa tha bank note of today. Tha color of the paper la peculiar and cannot be Imitated exactly by counterfeiter counter-feiter encept, at areat expense. The combined thlnneea and strength of the paper pa-per are also unique. It la made In sheets large enough for two notes. Bach note before It la etsed wctshe about eighteen grains end then it doubled- It la strong snoush to suspend a weight t thlrty-six nou ride. The texture of tba paper M also peculiar. pe-culiar. It has a crisp feel invariably the aame and aucb that bank elerke of experience ex-perience can readily detect forgeries by that teat alone. Then tire wire mark Impressed Im-pressed In the making by a frame, cosily to make and difficult to aaa, I practl-ually practl-ually Inimitable. Each note haa thin, rough edgsa cut out not to be produced by any mode of cutting paper that la net devleed expressly for the purpose. The paper foe printing Is dampened with water In tils exhausted reoelvsr of an air pump. The Ink used in the plate printing le made t Frankfort black, which la composed of th charcoela rtf th tendrils and hu.ua of the Herman traps ground with linseed oil.' This Ink ha a peculiar and verv deep eha1e of hieck. common hiach tnka ' being tinted either with blue or browa. Scientific ajuertcaa. attTEIlTINO CAT. Oas of the regrettable pranks of mv boyhood waa ratspultisg sparrows, sad a tortoise shell kittrs,, progeny of itsj wn aeonrd to fetch th dead bird and I bnag them to my feet. Certainly thia example of eat retrieving was creep-! lioaaT, but tb faculty waa s atronglyf developed as t become transmissible,' th tortois shell's kittens in turn be-, eoming expert retrievsrs witk very lit-tl lit-tl teaching. A eat fntslligenc is very little bar hind that of a dog, aad I eould cite instance when th members of a bitten family have learned tricks mors quickly tbsa ths members of tb puppy one d aot wish to disparage the aex, but bav found in teaching young cats to I retrieve' and do tricks that ths males , nrs much mors amenable to eUacipliaei tad quicker at "lessons'' tksn tb fe- ' mals are, snd of n troupe of performing perform-ing eat which went tbe round of the musie ball soma years ago every member mem-ber waa a mala. ' Tshiag eata eveerallv. the a La beet in- telUgeare i met with ia Maax an,d for- I eiga abort hair breeiis, although our ua- tivo eats might be just ss clever if thev 1 were give ths earn opportunities. ' Persians, o tb other haad. ar peculiarly pe-culiarly atupid. Vnhke a dog, a- cat haa not n forgiving disposition; it ia at ; all eiross more independent, nnd con- i sequentlv more patienc is required is its training and it smist never be ruffed. i When I owned n well known "eat-j jterv" ef foreign abort hair th in-' mates would answer to my w k i st 1 as,, dog do, snd thev each bad aame aad i . would respond ladividuallr to them. The tricks they eould do were reirioa. ! but tbe aaa I looked en as mv greatest triumph waa the rounding up of rbark-ens rbark-ens as a dog rounds up aueep, which 1 one, nad oalr ooe, learaed to do. As- ' other would do 'peenanee1 bv goinif dowa o its knees, putt.ag the trot.t of its heed en ir-e er'- I re.,..n ing try UUL.I to.'l .. I - ., j |