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Show MAKES MONEY FOR MANY. English Mint Furnishes Coin To Other Nations. Birmingham, lCugland, has a mint! which In addition to turning out millions mil-lions of Kngllsh coins docs moro In tho way of supplying foreign governments govern-ments with coin than any other money-making establishment In the world. A few days ago It shipped the first Installment of n hugo Egyptian Egyp-tian order for 10,000,000 plasters. The consignment weighed five tons, was conveyed In sixty cases and valued val-ued at $15,000,000. For well over a century Birmingham has taken tho lead In this literal kind of money making. As far back as 1707 ono firm coined, under contract for tho British government, 4,000 tono of copper cop-per coin, valued nt about $4,000,000, Among tho countries and governments govern-ments which have gone tlmo after tlmo to Birmingham for their money aro Indln, Tunis, Canada, Turkey, China, Hongkong, Haiti, Sarawak, Tuscany, Venezuela and Chile. Objects to Term "Old Maid." Mifcs Kllon Thorni?ycroft Fowler has recently been protesting against the use of tho term "old maid" In connuc-Hon connuc-Hon with unmarried women. Spinster is tho word she recommends to des-cribo des-cribo all maidens, whom sho strongly reproves for their disparagement of marriage and men. while at the samo time sho upbraids married women for the rhllculouH air of sunerlorlty they assume over their spinster sisters. The spinster, she rightly maintains, should be rospected as much as tho matron who on the other hand has no occasion occa-sion to feel specially proud ot hor po-, po-, itlon. lady's Pictorial. |