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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 11, 2 December 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

" Giiernuacks.'' — Few people, perhaps, are aware why the national cunency is! printed with green backs, therefore I will explain the reason. Ever since the adop- ] tion of paper currency, it has been the constant study of bank note engravers to getup some plan of printing bills that couid noi be counterfeited. In this they only partly succeeded till as luf.a as 1857, when a man named .Stacy J. Edson invented a kind of green ink called anti-photographic ink, \ because it cannot be photographed on | account of its color, and cannot be disloged with alkalies by cormierfeiters, to get a complete fdc-simile of the bills. Mr Montgomery, recently editor of the Vicksburg Whig, tells a good story of the landlord of a hoiel, at Holly Springs, Miss. It was a large fashionable hotel, and the landlord was a pompous r»an, with a large corporosity and ruffled shirt bosom. Printed bills of fare were provided, yet the landlord stood at the head of the table, at dinner, and in a loud voice read off the list of articles in a rhyming way : — "Here's boiled ham, and raspberry jam; baked potatoes and cooked tomatoes ; turnips smashed, and squashes squashed, and so on." Mr M. asked him afterwards why he read it aloud when printed copies were on the table. " Force of habit," replied the landlord ; " got so used to it, I can't help it. You see, I commenced busines down here at Jackson (the capital of Mississippi), and most all the Legislature boarded with me. There wasn't a man of 'em could read, so I had to read the feill of fare to 'em." Change of Name. — A western paper, annoyed by the periphrasis, " American citizens of African descent," offers " unbleached Americans," as a shorter and more expressive term. The island of Monte-Chriso, which owea its celebrity to Alexander Dumas' popular novel, has just been chosen l»y the Italian government as v penal settlement.