Brigham City Bugler | 1891-08-22 | Page 3 | Weight of French Money

Wrisbt of Frrnch Money. A Frenchman, who evidently revels in 1 handling largo sums of money, has compiled com-piled some entertaining statistics with j regard to the weight of a milliard of the j French coin of the realm. According to I him a milliard in silver weighs 10.000. 000 pounds: in gold, 045,160 pounds; in 1,000 ( franc checlrs. 2.5(10 pounds, and in 1U0 i frano cheeks, ;(,000 pounds. Assuming that a r;i rrior could carry two hundred , weight, iS ra'-n wonld bo required to 1 carry a milliard in l.oOG franc checks, j 115 men for tlio same sura in 100 franc I checks, 3.005 men in gold and 50,000 in silver. A milliard in 1,000 franc checks 1 wonld make 2.000 volum&s of 500 pages : aa."iL Boston Herald