Show I MONEY MARKS The Voril II > < K ttoy of lli lnr Thlncl llirbnnrl I Did It ever strike you aa being at al peculiar that we should us the dollai mark 1 f > before Instead of after thn figures fig-ures n enprenlng the sum of C 10 2C or any other number of dollars Vr may say twenty Sve dollar plain enough for anyone to understand but as soon aa we put the eipronalon Into figures and ehnractera U la dollar IwcntyHve IIS Instead of 2Sf aa II should be Nor Is I Ibis all that Is I pent i liar In this connection In every country coun-try which hat a written language nail I n system of coinage the abbreviation I for Ibo unit of value precede the figures j fig-ures In Kngland the pound mark Cii I le used I In the mm manner thai thi dollar I mark la used In this country I while the same penillirlt Is noticeable notice-able In lermnny where the abbreMn i lion m for mark appears preceding the number jest aa the Trench abbrc I atlon fr for franc Is used In France It abbreviation are not used the legend leg-end la morn npt to bo correct Vc find that In Meslra they hate n 2 < i pews Instead of p 24 as ono might expect 1 and In Newfoundland they have a plain iw o dollar piece So too In Irnnco who the abbreviation Is not used we find such piece no 10 francs 20 franca and 40 francs In 1 < rmany they have n piece marked X dialer whlrh Is all very plain but the moment a clerk bookkeeper or other pirson make an entry or jnle down a memorandum memo-randum he tell you thai Illat I th X The llngllah pound sign whlih la br Unveil lo lie the oldest monetary nbbro I vlallon now In use Is the old Initial Inter In-ter by which the liomans rnpreasrl pounds Just aa we use the tbs It has been suggested that no use our monty abbreviation backward because the liomans In eipreulng poindn always al-ways mid 1 libra il cm Instead ot derem libra the first being pound i ten and the latter ten pound i When their Initial letter or character was used It always preceded figure thus 10 Instead of the reverse Thus the whole world idle got In the habit ot doing these things backward I |