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Show innuiunm money. Financiers are discussing the advisa-oility advisa-oility of the question of replacing the material of the bank notes and bonds with aluminium, which has already served its purpose in the manufacture oi visiting cards and postal cards. It ia stated tbat coins might be made of the new metal, these coins to be worthiest except so far as the guarantee of the bank is concerned in placing a value on them. Henry Bessemer, the great Eng lish steel manufacturer, is warmly espousing es-pousing the idea and recommends th making of such bonds, which, in tlw shape of a coin, are exceedingly light fireproof and difficult to melt, so thai they are free from all the disadvantage possessed by paper money. Bessemei says that he has already perfected a process frhich prevents counterfeiting such coins, making it more difficult to counterfeit than paper money, for photo lithography has made it easy to imitate the most skillful design, and the only safeguard is the secret process of raak iag Jie paper. St Louis Post-Dispst |