anaheim-gazette 1891-07-02

THEFTS FROM GOLD COIN. How Uncle Sam Has Been Robbed by Ingenious Italians and Poles. The United States sub-treasury officials of this city are greatly annoyed at present by the amount of light weight gold coin that is coming into their coffers. The gold is all short in value, and though there is no apparent difference in the size of the various pieces or their weight to the unpracticed observer, many of them have been reduced one-third of their value. The officials do not hesitate to accuse persons of robbing the government by reducing the weight of the coin, and the government has even gone so far as to take steps to stop the robbery. Assistant Treasurer Roberts said that many of the $5 gold pieces were fifty cents short, and some of the $10 pieces were worth only $9.25. The $1 coins did not suffer much, because it would hardly pay to bother with them. In every case that his attention had been called to the face of the coin had not been worn or mutilated. The figures and designs presented lines as sharp as new ones, and the milling hadn't been disturbed. These coins were, however, all short from twenty-five to fifty cents in value. These facts have caused the officials to think that there are persons at work in the city who are making a regular business of defrauding the government. The gold in these cases has been removed from the coin by means of a chemical process, which does not appear to affect the general appearance of the money. An old treasury official, in speaking of the fraud, gave me some interesting facts concerning this species of robbery. "There are half a dozen ways of getting gold off coins," said he, "but the two most in vogue are those where acid is used, and in the 'sweating' process. The latter is most in vogue among Polish Jews and Italians, who make a regular business of it." "In the first place they secure a stout canvas bag and fill it about half full of gold coins. The top of the bag is tied, and then the coins are shaken together for hours at a time. The friction of one coin rubbing against the other wears off considerable gold, and it is deposited at the bottom of the bag. Each time $200 worth of gold coin is treated to the 'sweating' process the Italian will probably secure $20 worth of dust. The coins when taken out look somewhat old day." The Splendid Old Run awoke to his surroundings, took one sniff at his odorous burden, and in just one and a half minutes by the clock had bucked himself clear of everything, saddle and all, and was making Salvator time for his stable. It was interesting while it lasted, but thank the Lord! it didn't last long. Talk about riding a trip hammer! Why, that would be comparative fun to the way this old fiend bucked! First my hat came off; then the game began to come up and hit me in the face and the small of the back; then I had to throw away my gun so as to have both hands to hold on with; next it began to rain dead quail out of my pockets, and finally he got me to coming down as he was going up, and that settled it. The next thing I knew I was sitting on the ground, with my teeth all close and a kink in my spine; my game, gunn, saddle and blanket scattered around, and the horse nearly home. Old Sport was sitting in front of me, spatting the ground with his stump of a tail and now and then licking his wounds in a manner that showed he was proud of them. I was demoralized, there's no use denying it; and weak and sick I sat there until my friend, alarmed by the S. O. R.'s return riderless to the ranch, hitched up his team and came down the river hunting for me.—Forest and Stream. Saved a Baby from Death. During a small tenement house fire on the east side there was a thrilling incident that was not chronicled at the time. It occurred at a rear window in the second story. The flames had been extinguished with trifling damage, but the house was full of smoke. Suddenly a woman tottered to the open window. In her arms she held a bundle, tightly clasped to her bosom. It was in white wrappings. Quickly the crowd of people in the yard below saw the woman. Great clouds of smoke whirled about her head in suffocating volumes, and the crowd called upon her to jump. She hesitated, but extended the bundle at arm's length, from which at that moment there came a faint cry. It was a baby's voice. "Save my child!" implored the woman. Instantly a blanket was procured and strong men held its corners. "Drop it!" they shouted. With her face averted the agonized and imperilled mother let the baby fall. Down the little one flattered like a white winged, wounded bird, with the despairing cry of "Mamma" upon its lips. latter is most in vogue among Polish Jews and Italians, who make a regular business of it. "In the first place they secure a stout canvas bag and fill it about half full of gold coins. The top of the bag is tied, and then the coins are shaken together for hours at a time. The friction of one coin rubbing against the other wears off considerable gold, and it is deposited at the bottom of the bag. Each time $200 worth of gold coin is treated to the 'sweating' process the Italian will probably secure $20 worth of dust. The coins when taken out look somewhat old—as if they had been in circulation a long time—but they will always be accepted by persons not used to handling money. "To a person familiar with the frauds, however, it is always easy to detect a coin that has been treated to a 'sweat.' The Italian will always take 'new coin for the purpose, and if a person will only stop to think he can also detect a light coin. The gold does not wear off as rapidly as is generally supposed in ordinary circulation. Therefore when a person finds a coin which from its date is only two or three years old, that has a very worn appearance, it has undoubtedly been treated to a 'sweat.' These coins will always be found short weight, and people will save money if they watch the date and condition of the pieces they receive. "The process of removing gold by an acid bath is now resorted to more generally than the old sweating system, as it is harder to detect the shortage in the coins. On 'sweated' coin the figures and milling are worn, while on the others the designs are not at all injured. To detect shortage in the latter coin weigh them."—New York Herald. Cured of Practical Joking. Practical joking has had many followers among "great men;" but the manner in which Beethoven was cured of it should be a lesson to all who still practice the "art." The wife of a pianist in Vienna was a great admirer of the composer's works, and had set her heart on getting a lock of his hair. She induced her husband to get a mutual friend to ask for it; but the friend, being a practical joker, instead of carrying out her wishes, persuaded Beethoven, who also was fond of a practical joke, to send her a lock cut from a billy goat's beard, the hair of which in texture and color slightly resembled that of the composer's. The lady was very proud of her supposed treasure, until another friend, who knew the facts, informed her of the trick, when she was so distressed that her husband wrote an indignant letter to Beethoven. The composer's courtesy to a lady being thus brought home to him, he was so ashamed that he immediately wrote a letter of apology, inclosing a genuine lock of hair; and he resolved never to be a party to such jokes again.—New York Ledger. What Is and Is Not Perpetual Motion. As is generally known, a perpetual motion machine is one to be moved by a great cloud of smoke whirred about her head in suffocating volumes, and the crowd called upon her to jump. She hesitated, but extended the bundle at arm's length, from which at that moment there came a faint cry. It was a baby's voice. "Save my child!" implored the woman. Instantly a blanket was procured and strong men held its corners. "Drop it!" they shouted. With her face averted the agonized and imperilled mother let the baby fall. Down the little one flattered like a white winged, wounded bird, with the despairing cry of "Mamma" upon its lips. Lightly it struck the blanket, and a moment later it was taken up safe and sound, but sobbing, by a motherly looking woman in the throng. It required but a few minutes to raise a ladder and rescue the self sacrificing mother from her perilous position and restore her dimpled darling to her arms. This touching rescue was loudly cheered by the sympathetic spectators.—New York Herald. Advertise Your Profession. Advertising is the legitimate coadjutor of any legitimate business. No one occupation or set of men has a monopoly of it by any code of common sense. When properly used and developed to its capacity for good it is as honorable and as dignified in its application to the professions as it is to the merchant, manufacturer, publisher, playwright, the artist or the pulpit. Like anything else, it can be put to wrong ends; but that should not discredit advertising as a proper factor for good purposes. As well denounce religion because there are hypocrites, or condemn water as a drink because men are drowned in the bay. Because rascals and disreputable members of the profession have invoked its aid does not limit its usefulness when put to good ends. The professional man must, in the beginning of his practice, bend his energies to building up a large circle of acquaintances. In the ordinary course of events, and following the usual habits of all professional men, he is obscure for the first ten years of his practice. After that time, if fortune favors him, he rises with more or less rapidity to a position which is at once profitable and honorable.—A. L. Teele in Printers' Ink. A Dollicate Question. During a lull in the court proceedings at Auburn the other day, Sheriff Lamb propounded a legal question based on an actual occurrence recently in East Livermore. Two neighbors in that town own rams. One of the rams jumped over the fence into the field of the neighbor and while there injured one of the cattle which was grazing in the field. The neighbor caught the ram and tied him in the barn where his own ram was tied. As he happened to give him too much slack rope the ram got at the more securely tied ram belonging to the man who had tied him and killed him. After having performed this feat he managed, through the extra amount of rape, to get so entangled as to get hanged by the neck after being dead. The may was very proud of her supposed treasure, until another friend, who knew the facts, informed her of the trick, when she was so distressed that her husband wrote an indignant letter to Beethoven. The composer's discontent to a lady being thus brought home to him, he was so ashamed that he immediately wrote a letter of apology, inclosing a genuine lock of hair; and he resolved never to be a party to such jokes again.—New York Ledger. What Is and Is Not Perpetual Motion. As is generally known, a perpetual motion machine is one to be moved by a power furnished by the machine itself and not from any source outside of it. A mill or a clock run by the incessant rise and fall of the tide is not perpetual motion. Neither is a machine that runs by the power of terrestrial or other magnetism, or of the wind, or of variations in the weight of the atmosphere, or by electricity coming from outside of the machine, or by the force of heat coming from the sun. A wheel that could always of itself keep more weight at one side than the other and thus turn so long as its materials lasted would be perpetual motion, and such has been the form of most of the machines invented for the purpose.—Chicago Herald. Contempt of Court. A stranger once walked into a Massachusetts court and spout some time watching the proceedings. By and by a man was brought up for contempt of court and fined; whereupon the stranger rose and said: "How much was the fine?" "Five dollars," replied the clerk. "Well," said the stranger, laying down the money, "if that's all, I'd like to jine in. I've had a few hours' experience of this court, and no one can feel a greater contempt for it than I do, and I am willing to pay for it."—Green Bag. A Burking Worse. Gentlemen, but wasn't this luck? Twenty-three quail, two geese, two coons and a fox all in one afternoon! If any one can beat that on an everyday common goose hunt, let me see the color of his hair. After tying on the game I mounted and broke into the S. O. R.'s train of thought with a dig in the ribs with the butt of the gun. Right there was where I made the mistake of the actual occurrence recently in East Livermore. Two neighbors in that town own rams. One of the rams jumped over the fence into the field of the neighbor and while there injured one of the cattle which was grazing in the field. The neighbor caught the ram and tied him in the barn where his own ram was tied. As he happened to give him too much slack rope the ram got at the more securely tied ram belonging to the man who had tied him and killed him. After having performed this feat he managed, through the extra amount of rape, to get so entangled as to get hanged by the neck until he was dead. The legal question involved was as to who should pay for the ram—the neighbor who, by letting his ram loose, caused all the trouble, or the neighbor who, by tying him in the barn so carelessly, caused the death of both animals.—Bangor News. What the Sailor Men Eat. Times are changed now on board ships. When I was a boy before the mast I had to take a tin pannikin and pot to the galley, get a lump of tough salt horse, a pot of weak tea and mo-lasses and eat wherever I had a show. Nowadays the sailors have a boy to wait on them, get canned roast beef and spudds every other day and the beat of salt beef and pork. 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