FILTHY BANK NOTES.
Mr Justice- Johnston had a> horrol|);, 'of "those filmy, bank notes," and used periodically to doribmneo them from the Bench;i§|.Qf 'course, His Honor received every quarter from the Treasury a nice, clean cheque, which he or his secretary deposited in a swell bank, and he was never under* the painful necessity of fingering a i^astj&, filthy bank note. 'Not being a jud^-e (basg||B,g whisky), I am troubled with no such scruples. I -would cheerfully encounter the risk of handling a cart-load oflbank notes out of a small-pox hospital, nff : the f consciousness that if I perished as a martyr ;to heroic selfsacrifice I should have a respectable funeral, and leave my wealth' td a Church, which would give me a good-" send off," and stick in a stained window or erect a* gilt tablet to my memory. It may be of interest, however, to my readers tq^ppW that the paper on which the Bank;' of England " promises to pay ".is printed consists c^f new linen and superfine cotton, that befbre'it is sized will support a weight of 241bs, and that no note is issued twice.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 232, 21 February 1885, Page 3
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188FILTHY BANK NOTES. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 232, 21 February 1885, Page 3
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