"J' ffcpwvw ^^pp^^^ p-1" lj^M-y Vfrl'-W'-HLA.'- IHij'm*- V i v- he tied up the bleeding stump and remained silent, and never tell the world what A lnoble Record. Spurious Shekels. fe^ general rules for detecting counterfeit at his post till a station-master, cankered his home peace? That is *ij coins, as it will be seen from the foregoing lee In a not'ce of the rfeath of the Two millions of V-lnti Coin in Circ'nia- informed by the engine-driveruthat seme strength. He who, with strong passions, that the closest ocular inspection may tionVarious Modes of JPorjtln*. occurred, picked the arm ha*1 accident Hon. Robert Parker Parrott a correspondent remains chaste: he who, keenly sensitive, From tbe Scientific American. be wholly at fault. In general the milling rom the rail and succored the hero. with manly powers of indignation in him, It womd hardly be supposed that so of the Bedford (,Pa.) Enquiier on the edge ot the counterfeit coin isalways can be provoked and yet restrain himself, large an amount as $3,000 000 in counterfeit i-S & makes the following mention of the dealings poorly executed as compared with and forgivethese are the strong men, flow the Weather is Foretold. silver and gold coin is now afloat the genuine but wear ot the latter often of Mr Parrott with the TJ. S. Gov the spiritual heroes in this country but sucn, according to raiders the distinction difficult to draw. ernment during the rebellion: Informer times, the chief herald of the egtima+e of treasury experts, is the Another point worth remembering is f* A French Story. the weather was the almanac, wbich He was the inventor of the system of fact, and, moreover, the totalis constantly that absence ot clear tone in a coin is not & ambitiously prophesied a whole year ot rifled guns and projectiles bearing his increasing. The spurious money passes necessarily poor of its falsity, because it A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun cold and heat, wet and dry, dividing up name He invented these guns and missiles through thousands uf innocent hands, may and does happen that a crack or writing from Paris says: the kinds of weafhei quite impartially, while in charge of the West Point until it is finally raught in the meshes ot flaw is made in the metal during the Here is the'last balloon story: Monsieu if not always correctly. Foundry, and they were first introduced the nets laid by the Secret Service, or is rolling,and this, just as in a bell, will of Gjdard, in hU hutpirasv to the But the almanac, good as it was now in actual service at the battle of Bull Run, recognized by a jynx-eyed expert in course destroy the vibrations, and make clouds but one, was accompanied by a and then, and the weather-wise farmers, July 21, 1861. They were exclusively ^ome large bank. Then the unfortunate the sound dull and flat. single fellow trayeler, who had paid one correct as sometimes they might have used by the Federal Army and Navy until holder bf comes the victim of the counterfeiter thousand francs for the privilege of a been, were not always able to impart exact the end of the civil war. One ot the skillful rascality. place by the side of the celebrated aeronaut. information to the country and they Parrott thirty founders mounted at Cum In order to imitate a coin successfully The weather was splendid and the Baboons That Were Tired of Life. have been thrown quite into the shade of mins Point was used against Charleston, that is, so that it will deceive, not the balloon reached a considerable height. late, by one who is popular known under and withstood the extraordinajy test of general public, because probably most A NewYork Sun reporter had an interview "What effe -t has it on you?' inquired the somewhat disrespectful title of "Old beiDg lired 4,606 times before bursting. persons never take a second look at the with a wandering showman whomakes M. Godard of his companion Prob," or "Old Probabilities." He has In this connection we desire sn illustration, coin they leceive. provided its appearance a living by traveling through the "None whatever," was th3 curt rep.y. become the Herald of the Weather to the which we believe has not yet been seems right, but the clerk or cashier cauntry exhibiting four boboons. The "I must compliment you," said sailor, near the rocky, dangerous coasts published, ot Mr. Parrott's noble character. moderately well accustomed to handling reporter asked the old man about his Godard. "You are the first amateur I to the farmer, watching his crops, and During the war the rule was that moneythe counterfeiter must regard travels have ever known to reach this aWtude waiting for good days to store them to every body should pile up wealth as fast execution, size and weight. The without experiencing some emotion." the traveler, anxious to pursue his journey "Oh, yes," Mr. Helms said, I've been as he could, regardless of business principles last is most important in gold coin, because "Go higher," said the amateur cooly. under fair skies and to the all over the worldm South America and or conscientious sciuples, particularly the least current weight of the latter M. Godard threw out some ballast, and girls and boys who want to know, Africa. I never went into the interior of so long as the Government was the is established, whereas in silver a the balloon flew up some sixty yards before they start to the woods for a picnic, Africa, but I've traveled with my son and debtor, and history painfully reminds us coin ot ht weight, so long as the reduction higher. what are the "probabilities" as to the baboons on the coast line. We got of the fact that there weie few exceptions is not manifestly too great, will "Now, how do yu feel?" rain. the baboons in Africa about three yearsago, to the rule. With the opportunity befoi pass. The standard weights of gold coin "Just as usual,' said the companion in and have been exhibiting them ever him, tbe alluring bait of gold untold Everyone who reads the daily paper is are as follows a rather petulant tone. since. There are the two small ones."" within his power and* grasp without the familiar with the "Weather Record," issued 20 pc Standard, 516 gts., least current weight 5U 42 "By Jove!" exclaimed M. Godard, "you He pointed to the dingy window, and two aid ot Congressmen and jobbers and "U0 pc Standard, 253 grs least current weight 2ah 7l from tbe "War Department, office $15 pc Standard, 129 least current weight 128 36 are a born aeronaut, sir!" strangely misshapen animals were seen on brokers, he overcame the Devil and maintained of the Chiet Signal Officer,'" at Washington. $2Mpc Standard, Ri grs least current weight 63 18 The balloon kept on rising, and when a a sort of 'scaffold outside. Their longnoses his honesty, integrity and patriotism These repoits give, first, a general Any decrease in weight below the latter few hundred yards higher Godard, for and heads made as ugly a picture by adhering strictly to his principles. statement of what the weather has been, figures subjects the holder to a loss equivalent the third time, questioned his companion of brute life as is often seen "We have for the past twenty four hours, all over to the difference. This decrease as to his emotions. two more full grown, in the cellar down, the country, from Maine to California, may occur by wear, or as is very often the The'-Parrott" gun, ol which he was "Emotions! Not a trace of emotion," his stairs, but we lost our two best ones sail-' an I from the Lakes to the South Atlantic case, through sundry nefarious processes, beara the inventor, and which to day replied he, with the tone of a man who ing to this country." States and then "Probabilities," or "In- which, though not properly counterfeiting, name, was* tested in the first battles of feels that he has been taken in. "How did you lose them?" dications," for the next twenty-foui hours, nevertheless belongs of that species the war, and found so serviceable that it "Well, so much the worse," said the "Well." said the German, sorrowfully, over this same broad tei ri oiy. Tbe annual of crime. was immediately adopted by the Government, aeronaut. "I see I shall not be able to "one died of vexation." reports to the Chief S gnal Officer These operations are perhaps trie mest and they were ordered for the alarm you we have risen high enough, "What dia the other do?" shos\ that in only comparatively few instance dangerous to the community, because as Army as fast as they could be manufactuied and we shall now descend." do these daily predictions tail of "He killed himself. He said he was, a rule the coin preserves its appearance, at Mr. Parrott's works. A friend "Descend?" fhlfillment. tired of the water, and we should never is apparantly genuine under the acid test who was familiar with his buisness remonstrated "Yes certainly, it would be dangerous see land again, and he jumped overboard." and in fact, is genuine except in weight. The reason these prophecies are so with him upon the prices he to go higher." It it impossible, for example' to tell true is a simple and yet a wonderful one. had fixed, sayiag that the S. would "I don't care about the anger, and I whether a coin has been ''sweated" or The son corroborated this extraordinary The weather itself tells the observer have to procure an immense number of don't choose to descend. I am going not without weighing it, and by sweating story, and, as the reporter looked/ what it is going to do, sometime in advance, these guns, and were ready to pay whatever higher, I am. I paid a thousand Trancs is meant the use oi the coin as the anode from one face to the other in amazement, and the telegraph sends the news he chose to askthat ^ere was an to expeiience some emotions I'll have before in the electro plating bath, the g3ld being the Old man proceeded: all over the country, from the central signal ODportunity which could never occur going down again." abstracted tiom it and deposited on "Don't believe anybody," he said, "who office at Washington. again to acquire such fabulous wealth. M. Godard burst out laughing. He another surface. Of course a uniform tells you that baboons can't talk and understand We shall see, presently, how the weather This friend reports that Mr. Panott thought the man was joking. quantity is removed from the entire surface, all that is said to them. Thtf interprets itself to "Old Probabilities." smiled in his quiet way, as he replied "Are you going up higher or not?" said and the imprint retains its original one that jumped overboard was called Although it has proved such a fruitful that he had no desire to possess such extraordinary the companion, at the same time grasping sharpness. As much as two dollars worth Jack. He couldn't talk ry plain. We subject of discourse in all figes, yet I am riches, and it he had, would M. Godard by the throat and shaking ot gold is sometimes taken from the were coming from Port Natal to Boston, afraid many people who pass remarks rather not acquire them in that way. him violently. "I intend to have my double eagle in this way. A less scientific and when about two thirds of the voyage upon it, do not really think what the Then, growing more serious, he added emotions." plan is one too commonly adopted by bad been finished Jack gave us to understand weather is made of. Let us examine its that "it he were a younger man he should conscienceless jewelers, who, when they M. Godard saw at a glance that he had that he was sick of the water. He different elements. return to the army and do what he could want a little gold, instead ot buying the to do with a madman. The dilated eyes, was sick, and we intended to have a surgical to aid his country, but tha* at his age The atmosphere has weight, just as water precious metal, purchase a twenty dollar tne furious grasp, the very tone of hi3 operation performed on him when nd in his position he was denied the or any other fluid, although it seems piece, file off with a dead smooth file a voice left no doubt about that. we got to Boston. We spoke about it opportunity of helping the Government to be perfectly bodiless. Wc must comprehend sufficient quantity, reburnish the place, while we stood by his cage, and he overheard But what was to be done? They were in that way. But in THIS way," he said, that the transparent invisible air aud pass off the coin at full value. The us, and it made him mad. We some 3,000 feet high among the clouds a I CAN be of use, and I do "not intend is pressing inward toward the center of 3st extensive fraud perpetrated on gold heard a crash behind us, and turning struggle was out of the question, as one these guns shall cost the United States the earth. This pressure varies according coinage is "splitting." around we found that he had burst open violent motion of the madman would any more than is absolutely necessary." to the state of the weather, and the his cage, and was bounding along thedeck. be enough to upset the car. All these As labor and iron went up he was compelled changes are indicated by an instrument The operator uses a fine saw to split He passed the captain and several thoughts passed M. Godard's mind in less to alter his price, but the friend called a barometer Generally speaking, the coin neatly into. Then he gouges the of the crew, and springing on the rail than a second. His adversary was a powerful above referred to expressed Ins belief that the falling of the mercury in the tube of gold out of the center until only a tun jumped overboard astern A boat was* man, and without loosening his they were at no time equal to those he the barometer indicates rain, and its rise outside shell is left, and substitutes a silver lowered, and we pulled after him, tut he grasp, he called out, "Ah, my fine fellow, would have charged at the same time to heralds clear weather. Sometimes the and platinum alloy for the metal thus was determined to die, and he swam away you have been playing the fool with me a private customer. Yet the volume of rise is followed by cold winds, frosts and abstracted. The two parts are then joined from us. We followed him upward of You have made me pay one thousand business was so great, amounting to many ice. What these changes really indicate, with gold solder, and tbe edge is remilled. mile, but he kept ahead of us, until at francs and not given me a single emo- millions, that his small percentage of piofit however, can be determined only by comparing In this way gold to the value of last we saw him throw up his arms and tion." necessarily increased his foitune very the barometric changes, on certain $15 50 has been taken from a single sink. We rowed backward and forward "Well but what would you have me largely. hours, in a number of places very far piece. The operation, however, generally over the place where he had gone downr do?" asked M. Godard, calmly and soothingly. apart. This is done by the Signal Service. destroys the ring or tone of the coin, leaving Just before Lee's surrender, a large but nobody ever saw poor JacK again. Observations are made at about it, besides, either too light or too contract for these guns had bet concluded I' going to throw you over," said Then we had trouble with the other bab~ 4 one hundred and forty stations, in different thick Another swindle is to bore into with Mr. Parrott. He knew that the boon. His name was Joe. He had seen the maniac, with a wild laugh "Bat first, poitions of the country, at given the edges. The holes whence the gold is sudden termination of the war must render Jack commit suicide, and determined to an idea strikes me I'll go up to the top hours, and the results are telegraphed at taken are refilled with silver, covered any additional supply of his guns uncalled follow his example. We begged him tobe of the balloon," and suiting the action to once to Washington, where our faithful with gold solder, and the edges are neatly for. He had no wish to fuither euhimself content for a short time. We assured the word he jumped into the rigging oi "weather clerk" receives them, reasoning finished but the light weight reveals by making guns for which the him he\a soon get ashore, and at las heagreed the car. out from them the "probabilities" which the theft. From $5 to $7.50 worth ot United States could have no possible use, to wait. But he never saw land* "But, my poor friend," said the aeronaut, he publishes three times in every gold has thus been taken from one coin, and which would have no greater value to again, for he gradually pined away, and* "you'll kill yourself like that" twenty-four hours. But the atmosphere and the pieces ot course have every appearance them than old iron in times of peace, and at length died. We buried him at sea.. The madman uttered a threat. ''At varies not only in weight, but also in of being nuine. Real counterfeitsthat he accordingly wrote to the Department We have only four left, but four's enough" least," said Mr. Godard, "let me put a temperature. The thermometer tells us is, coin wholly spurious because at Washington that he was ready to fill to take care of." rope around your waist to prevent an accident." of such changes. of base metal -are aimott invariably his contract if desiied, but at tne same below weight. An exception to this, however, The reporter was taken down to the Beside this, the air contains a great time, if the United States should believe "Well, be it so," said the madman, exists in the $5 piece which is of cellar, and showr to two baboons of large amount of moisture, and it shows as much it to be for their interest to annul it they who seemed to see the necesity of some tr exact standard weight of 129 grains. proportions. One, probably on account variation in this characteristic as in the were at liberty to do so. It was cancelled precaution, and the rope having been attached, It is composed ot alloy of gold and silver, of his surprising ugliness had been named others. For the pnupose of making forthwith. he recommenced climbing the and worth from $2 70 to $3 40. Its appearance Adonis, was more than a hundred pounds known the changes in the moisture of the The profit on the last contract would rigging of the balloon with the agility of and tone are excellent, but in weight. The other was called Jinny, atmosphere, an instrument has been invented have secured to most of us a modest fortune, a squirrel, and a few moments was it is thicker than the genuine com, and but was, nevertheless, a male, and only called a "wet-bulb" thermometer. but Mr. Pairott thought no more of seated on the apex, clapping his hands hence may be detected by the gauge. acted the female in exhibitions. Adonis, We are thus enabled to ascertain the thus cancelling it by a stroke of his pen and shouting with joy. At once he takes Still it is one of the most dangerous his owners said, talked very well, but he weight or pressure, the temperature, and then il it had been the simplest act of his out of his pocket a large clasp knife, and, counterfeits in existence. refused to utter a word for publication. the wetness of the air, and now it only daily routine of business. That he did brandishing it above his head, yells out When the younger man Adonis2": said "Dbaboon*youo remains for us to measure the force, and A silver piece passes current so long as not undervalue money was, however, the "Now, you rascal! you wanted to descend, love your master, point out the direction ot the wind. This the imprint is not badly defaced or evident from the strict attention which he did you? So you shall, with a vengeance bowed his bead gravely and scratched the is done by the familiar weather-vane and weight greatly reduced. A hole through gave to economv in his works, and from 1" And, before M. Goddard can utter ground with his forefootthereby testifying the anemometer. The vane shows the the coin, however, condemns it. The low the simplicity of his personal habits. He a word, four of the six ropes attaching unmistakably to the great and direction, and the anemometer is an instrument value of silver prevents any such proceedings wore a patch on his boot whilst he was the cor to the balloon are cut, and the growing affection he entertained for his which indicates the velocity of as in the case of gold, as the amount spending one hundred thousand dollars caritselt swinging helplessly outside. The proprietorbut his countenance expressed the wind. which could safely be abstiacted will not in building one of the most beautiful madman's knife was now touching the nothing but craft and cruelty, it is by a right understanding of all pay for the trouble of doing it. Consequently, churches on the banks of the Hudson, a other two, when the areonaut calls out to Mr. He^ms said the animal was ashamed these instruments that the Signal-Service all silver conterfeits are true church so aristically designed and thoroughly to him. "Sto?, one word!" of himself because he was not dressed. officer is enabled to tell what the weather imitations, and there is haruly a date of furnished that it seems to have "No, no down vou go," says of itself for they are the pens with dollar, half-dollar or quarter wbich has have been there ior a century. "But let me tell you something, my which the weather writes out the facts not been copied with remarkable accuracy. In his visits to the Riddlesburg furnace friend, we are now three thousand feet The Man of the Southwest. from which the officer makes up his reprorts The connterfeiter either makes a he took great pleasure in mingling high it is true, but that is not high for the benefit of all concerned mould in plaster from the real coin, and with the humble workmen, making From Edward King's Sketches. enough for a thoroughly good fall." 4 Thus, however wildly and blindly the casts from it, or he stamps his immitation himsalf one of their number, as it The Southwestern man is usually large "What do you mean?" asked the storm may seem to come, it sends messengers dies. As this last process is the same were so much so tnat his periodical advent in stature, sinewy yet spare of frame, and madman, confusedly. telling just where it arose, what as in use in the mints, the counterfeits was hailed with joy bv all the employes, nature has favored him with manly and "I mean this, that a fall of only three course it will take, and how far it will extend. thus produced are more difficult to detect and his sudden and unexpected graceful bearing. There is a freedom in thousand feet might not kill me, and I But it tells its seciets to those only because, besides being more accurately demise is mournea by them in sincerity. his walk and a picturesqueness in his prefer being killed to being only crippled. who pay strict attention.James H. finished, the compression which the alloy In his death the Kemble Company lose a speech which makes him a marked man? Oblige me, therefore, by waiting Hint, in St. Nicholas for July. receives brings it nearer to standard leader and manager that connot easily the moment he ventures out of his ownsection. un'il we aise three or four thousand feet weight. A large number of counterfeit be replaced, and Bedford County loses Perhaps only a generation ago* Strength of character consists of two higher." silver coins are made cheifly of type the first pioneer in the development of he emigrated from New England or thingspower of will and power of self "Agreed!" said the madman, metal. Avery dangerous half-dollar is her vast iron resources. His name will Northern New York to Texasr or Arkansas, restraint. It requires two things, therefore, seemed to enjoy the idea of so prodigious composed of silvc, copper and zinc, and ever be held in tond remembrance. Peace or Missouri, but the ichor in his to its existencestrong feelings and a fall. is worth about seventeen cents. to his ashes blood seems to have been changed in strong command over them. Now, it is The aeronaut keeps to his word ne It is from seven to ten grains too light. that time he is a new man. Even hismethods here we make a great mistake we mistake throws out nearly the whole of his ballast, Spurious half-dollars have appeared Tyro Humble Heroes, of thought are different. Tne strong feelings for strong character. and the balloon shoots up rapidly. which constantly deceive the bank tellers man of the Southwest posesses many of A man who hears all before him, before But while the madman is attentive, watching France reckons two braves more. A and other experts, because they are of the good and few of the bad traits oJFthe whose frown domestics tremble, and this operation, M. Godard observes fireman at Tarbes rushed among the full weight. They are made of a compound Southern character. The energy of the whose bursts of fury make the children that among tbe cordage as yet untouched burning ruins of a house to save his captain i similar to German silver, and are West is always at hand to correct his of the household quakgbecause he has is the pully of the gas escape. He gently and a clergyman, who were buried so well plated with genuine silver that the nature when it seems liable to succumb his will obeyed, and his own way in all draws the cord,, and the gas begins to beneath the floor in endeavoring to rescue acid does not affect them. They are, 1 to the indolence of the South. He abhorsthe thingswe call him a strong man. The escape immediately under the spot where the inmates. The fireman remained however, too thick, and the gauge, as listlessnes3 which allows property to trutb is, that is the weak man it is his the lunatic is perched. In a few moments trying to extricate the captain, but without usual, where the balance tails, shows the go to decay, fences toirot, and lands tobecome passions that are strong he, mastered by the combined effects of the gas and avail, till the flesh peeled off his fact. Counterfeits of the quarter dollar, exhausted simply because the them, is weak. You must measure the the now intensely rarefied air are apparent, hands and face. He has dieA from his though very plenty, are less dangerous owner is too lazy to arrest the downward strength of a man by the power of those and the madman sinks into a wounds, has been buried at the nation's than those of larger pieces. They are progress. After the war had passed he which subdue him. Ands hence* composure state of lethergy. The aeronaut cautiously expense and for a month his name will be composed of antimony, tin and lead, and sprang into an abnormal'activity for the is very otten the hightest result ot brings down hi*balloon, and the read out first on the roll-call of every are both too light and too thick, although purpose of repairing the ravages which strength. Did we never see a man receive terrible crisis is ended. regiment in the army. they have a'good ring, A peculiar composition had occurred in tbe disastrous years. The a flagrant insult and only grow a little Jean Plantier is a pointsman, and a has been employed, to which A soldier was sentenced, for deserting, to Southwesterner has not made himelf sowell pale and quietly reply? That is a man few months ago, in endeavoring to close powdered glass is added to give a clear havehis earcot off. After undergoing the ordeal, known as the Californian, but some spiritually strong. Or, did we ever see a the gates of a crossing, he was struck he was escorted out of the court-yard sound but this is but a clumsy expedient, day he will be studied carefully, and will to the tune of "Rogue's March." He then man in anguish stand as if carved out of down by a goods train, and his arm amputated as the coin is far below proper weight, afford richer material for the romancer* turned, and, in mock dignity, thus addressed solid rock mastering himself? Or one Not a soul was within reach, a tact easily appreciable. and the essayist than is to ff^mM4^^J^J^4onJ?dfouneb the musicians: "Gentlemen, I thank you hut bearing a hopeless daily trial remain and aware that an express train was due, Coast.1 It is a difficult matter to lay down any the Pacific I have no ear formusic." SWF. ^NKS^^1&S & n-iftia-?ntiltVfi-j!pi*VftA-~- ffiL ..^M,1^.^i.l,,M ,^v-="-*~ass^