Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1888 — Siamese Crashiers. [ARTICLE]

Siamese Crashiers.

, The Siamese ape is stated to be in great request among Siamese merchants as a cashier in their counting houses. Vast quantities of base coin obtain circulation in Siam and the faculty of discriminating between good money and bad would appear to be possessed by these gifted monkeys in such an extraordinary degree of development that no human being, however carefully trained, can compete with them. The cashier ape meditatively puts into his mouth each coin presented to him in business payments and tests it with grave de'liberation. His method of testing is regarded in commercial circles as infallible, and, as a matter of fact, his decision is uniformly accepted by all parties interested in the transaction.