Bank Notes Make Good Fuel

The novel speetaele of a steamer's furnaces fed with bank notes u as receutly witnessed at a .Uediterranean port. Forty sacks of the apparently valuable paper were tossed into the f urnace under the longiag eyea of tho stokers, who stood restively by wiih an evidently burniug" desire to possess themselves of at least a handful of that which they somewhat inelegantlyatylecl "rum fuel." ïhe notes were canceled notes of the bank oL Algiers, whose manager superintended the opera tion of their absolute combustión.