Show tae ta sahlu MN 1 I or OF 21 7 IS japie JAP ie coeta ARE 1411 an Eli english glish w titer liter saye alfr if we e 1 oud gain admission to tiie the silver mint afy d dowe do we should see the following process continually going on oil alamp af silver of the zit in cessare fineness obtained either from tile the government mines by melting down Mesi cai dollars dollar is 13 placed in an iron ladle and leduca to a molten state by means of a i 1 fire arid and a pair of blacksmiths bellow bello it 16 is then poured into a mold boldi from which it i taken out in m tile the shap thin rectangular bus bais which ate aie aai mediately into a tub of I 1 water on beail taken out a trian man re ee ri a on the ground shears off with wid a pan i large fixed scissor all 11 jagged jag 9 ed pie adhering to the anglo anglas 0 they are i vr handed over to another man who chor weighs ei glis them owe one by u ono and tl a piece 0 cn off if necessary to reduce the bar t weight lit the next nest proctar IS ie that of dividing th the bar burby by a fix d ir of emars into right eight equal dov porn I 1 i a f the size this dons done by y a 1 r maz man zi cutting cuddi ng it as accurately ai 3 2 d eye will enable him nd md his bie work is tested by weighing bing li light lit vi i c s 4 being injected and t 15 e hedy une rl r deuced to tn their proper weight by T scissors ois 5 the pieces are naw apin heated white i i it in I 1 charcoal chai coal fire plunged into w wt t boiled aa a a washed in a kind of bride from which they come out mit with a mod bight ant s surface n r fa c e they th ey ate are t ne very 3 slightly milled or on ill iba two ei i c icil 1 annu 0 demply on the eddes bv oca tuey ie i n nw reaal fur stamping A man 0 one u of h pieces on a stationary d i arid and layo on cn the top the other dio die second man armed with a huge lain mero mer girt girta a one cin 0 o i and the coin ia struck the blown bair aro are dealt in rapid succession abild h whole scene reminds one ufa bi b cl L smith slop boys now punch on en al stars or on the he adga by majam of chiel and barr hammers inners the coine are rei 0 ons one by or P for the laet time anca arid f 10 i lo light ones rejected the imperi stamp Is is added by beani means of a amoth 1 stamped chisel and the col coi are complete they are rolled up 11 iu paper packets of one buti hundred drea r I 1 packet is weighed tind marked wi a i e seal e al wah h ser ea as a guarantee oi 01 t contents conten tg and gives it it currency as i hundred ichi bua a while every ii in this primitive mau manner tier p perfect erfa orca in the estable establishment prevails an aliment ev I 1 il man goes through his hie vii l oe ite work in silence and with the of clockwork and many evince coi CO sid erable shill there are about abr t t hundred hands employed in inthe the build in when the men enter in anth the e M mon 0 ing they hey are arc made to dives t 11 e of their 0 own n clothes and put on om ot era ar belonging to the mitar at the en I 1 the lays lays work v gong abounds wb vh tile the somewhat curione cu rions spectacle tele presented of thi ec hundred met men ap v ing ilig fr from om the arlun ground d on which they h b d beer beel seated throwing ing off their elot clothed lec and rubbing a naked th throng roig tf to one cn ann cnn of a yard her He bethe rethey 7 pass through ing ordeal in order to prove that they h vi L no r their bach hair pull a dor down a and e they wash theia hands arld and lold hold them up tc view tb the N drink I 1 water and then ha ba doo ind find lost ly they run to the other end of ibe the yard clearing two tt 0 o or three hurdles ui tl their way after which performance they are allowed to put on their own clothes and depart mr sydney loco lococo ch her AL Maje loje secretary of degati Legat fori nn from whose report of this year tear are token taken believes beli evee that th mint hae been only twice entered 1 foreigners foreign orz and that the apparel ab uce of restrictions rian regard t touching und dna handling the coins pointe poiana to the probability that it is not ofte 0 open ell to the public but lie he that ean ifft if it were artho be lann ners mid aid CUB customs toms of the country are not rual as would preclude a mixed assem of viitala tr it nn in gair goerg 01 over er 1 it and r to the en end d the quantity ot 0 silver being co coined ined daily at the ning of this year w was as mori mod up DK which at the rate of 23 3 comme to t ichiau r would give a daily total isu hay of over hue bue or about the whole of these aro are produced 1 the aim simplest leit manual labor unaided b c L 61 single piece of machinery indiana Trea treasury surl on hand |