| Show germs in paper money tho the fear ear of contagion from disease microbes mic robes which our ancestors ne r felt ait because Igno ignorance zance was as bliss to them s stems ems to be putting its ban upon one thing after another one may not indulge longer in clams oysters wa ter cress spinach lettuce shaving sha I 1 kissing public books feather er dusters and numerous ev erday aces ne ces gitles without taking antiseptic pre cautions now comes a chemist at washington who lias has found a green back which was war the favorite result of different kinds of the disease ml mi clobes startled by tho the announce ment some brokers already are amov ing to protect cabb dabblers lers and tellers by infecting disinfecting dis all curi currency ency one boston scientist has suggested the placing of lotton cotton waste satin aud with formaldehyde in the safe or money dialer lawer mil all I 1 another the pour ing of a spoon spoonful rul of it in a vault each night which boards of health say will destroy millions of germs some bankers are inclined to sniff at the tha pi they rightly affirm that the tha microbe though a comparatively new di discovery covery Is as old as time trat that paper money Is nearly as old as time that thai cashiers and tellers have been handling the microbe and the currency without destroying the one or sterilizing tho the other and that they were healthy and long lived even th though 0 ugh they directly exposed them e elves by putting their lingers fingers to their lips when counting money aich cashiers and tellers no long longer r do the microbe and money matter it if it should occasion any widespread sp ap of contagion ft ill make life much harder than it Is now we must have money oven even with mith microbes mic robes on it and cannot stop to inquire who had bad it last or through how many pockets it has hag passed gathering new styles of 0 microbes mic robes at every it if the microbes mic robes would confine themselves to 1000 1 bills it would not be so bad because they do not circulate so freely as lives fives do but the microbe Is no of bills the microbe might have some difficulty in finding the 1000 bills but it can find dollar bills with ease and they are letter goiter and more homelike than tho the others |
