Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1881 — The Bank of Engiand. [ARTICLE]

The Bank of Engiand.

“As safe the Rank of England” is an assurance of safety which is never questioned. No one has ever lost money by the Bank of England, Its botes Are good all ovex tlie World. Matty fetlangers go to See it. Only a few persons can go round at Once with a guide. In one room notes that have been paid have the corners tom off and hefca punched through them, Over fifty thousand notes, WUrth one million pounds, are paid every day, and thus cut. They are kept five years, and, if you give the number and date of a note, in lees than five minutes it can he hfilfia ; so that if you paid a hcSttt you owed, aud a man said you did not do so, you could provg that you had paid it. The largest note is one thousand pounds. One hundred and twenty men are in the where paid notes axe clippee, and twelve hundred in the bank. All the notes are printed in the bank, and the printing machines keep a register of every one. Here pensions are paid to crippled soldiers. Here gold and silver plate—private property—is kept. Two things I heard interested me, “Gold is very brittle,” said our guide. “ H you throw a good deal about upon a counter—that is, a number of good pieces—and then sweep it off the counter, you will find that the fragments count up. We are very careful of them. In the weighing room, all gold sovereigns that you put in your pockets in the morning with other pieces of coin at night will not be just the saine. We know that, and we weigh every sovereign that has once been out of the house. The bankers lose the difference. We have sent boxes of gold coin to them by express that have come back to us unopened, yet the rubbing of the gold has worn off five pounds’ worth.” We came away agreeing that this great bank is one of the world’s wonders.— Exchange.

The Utilization of Blood, Bones, Etc In our city abattoirs very little of a slaughtered animal is allowed to go to waste. The hoofs are sold for glue stock, and bring about 40 cents a set. Pates, for the same purpose, bring 1 cent to 1| cents per pound. The tallow is generally rendered at the abattoirs and brings from to 6| cents per pound. What is called “hog fat”— that is, fat taken from the breast and kidneys of the animal while it is yet warm, is sold to oleomargarine manufacturers at 4=i cents per pound. The bladder, wizen, reed and bung gut are sold for about 8 cents a set, and made into skins for wrapping sausages in. The head brings 30 cents, and the meat is taken off it and cairned, while the bones are used as fertilizers. The flesh tail, worth 5 cents, is made into soup, and the hair tail, which is used for making or mixed with lime and sand for building purposes, is sold at 4 cents. Homs, which bring 10 cents per pair, are converted into bone buttons, handles for cutlery, etc. The blood is dried by steam, which separates the water from it, and then baked in a drying machine and sold for sugar refining and fertilizing purposes. Of late years it has also been manufactured into buttons by means of a chemical process. A number of consumptives come to the slaughter-houses daily and drink the warm blood from the freshly-killed animal, with very beneficial results in many cases. The stomachs are used for tripe, and bring 12j to 15 cents each. The tongue is worth 50 cents to 60 cents, and is usually smoked. The heart and liver together bring 30 cents, and, although sometimes used for human food, are generally sold for cats’ and dogs’ meat.— Scientific American.