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Show TEST FOR SPURIOUS (JOINS. Simple Method Disclosed by a Juror During a Trial. At thlfi sesKlou of the fciilttil criminal crim-inal court there lias been i.. exceptional excep-tional numlier of chaws of making and uttering counterfeit coin, says tho London Tribune. At the conclusion of ono of the cases the lineman of the Jury asHed the authorities If they would take a smwsllon fiom VI business busi-ness men who dnriiiK tbe year had to deal whh couslilcrahlo Hums In (diver (di-ver coin Theie was a most simple lest for tho detection of bnw coin. It was to cut the milled edge ot u good coin sharply against tho milled edge or the 8UKpccteil coin. If the HiiHpected coin were 11 spurious ono th metal would almost imine llatelv In- n to shave off. It was, he added, a lest that could he carried out anywheic. im thu lop of a bus or in iwshnp and tho public ought ;o he aciiuuliited with 1U Aflci uiaMiiK a poiHiiml test the common serfe.mi vald he ipilto agreed with the nut 'cation cf I be Jury as to the UHctulm of the test and said It ought in be made known |