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Show Apes Act as Money Takers. From the Independent: In that far-off, far-off, dried up litllo oriental country, quite nonr China, there nro largo quantities quan-tities of counterfeit coin lu circulation and tho counterfeiters of Siuni must be most piollclont, for wo hear that it is thu hardest thing In the world to detect de-tect tho bad from tho good money. Tho merchants uru often deceived and frequently fre-quently swindled. Tho smartest mini they could employ wero deceived, too, for jthu bad monoy was such ti wonderful wonder-ful Imitation that thu closest scrutiny often fulled to find tho difference between be-tween a good and bud piece. In this dilemma some Siamese merchants called call-ed to tholr belp someone who was always al-ways thought not so smart ns a man-it man-it monkey. And these "largo apes ot alum" proved such u success at tholr new vocation that tho custom of cm-ploying cm-ploying them for the purpose of detecting de-tecting bad money has become universal. univer-sal. Tho ape cashier of Slam holds his situation without n rival, llo has a peculiar method of testing coin. Every piece Is handed to him and hu picks Uli each bit nf niotww. (inn nt n t.itnn. uud meditatively puts it Into his mouth, tasting It with gravu tle.lber-lion. tle.lber-lion. If tho coin Is good ho declares thu fact plainly. Hu takes It from his mouth and carefully places It in its proper receptacle beside him. He has pronounced Judgment and every onu Is satisfied that thu judgment Is correct. But If thu coin is bad the cashier then makes known his verdict lu au equably uumlstakiiblo manner. Ho throws It violently from hli mouth to thu floor, shukiug his head with us much disgust ns tho merchant himself might feel at being imposed upon. With loud chattering chat-tering mid angry gestures he makes known his displeasure ut being pro sun tod with a bad piece of money. Thu merchant himself could not express it better, Now, how docs a motikey know what n man cannot toll? Ah I that is his secret. Hu novcr revels it. Perhaps ho is afraid if ho hIiouUI mako known all the mysteries of his piofes-slon piofes-slon his occupation might bo gono aud people should once rnoro prefer uion for cashiers In plaru of thu extraordinary apes employed by tho tncrchunld of Slam. |