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Oil of Sassafras. Stir and mix it well for about five minutes. Let is stand for twenty-four hours and it is ready for use. It is better to buy the Benzine from Pittsburgh, Pa., as the druggists usually charge two or three times the wholesale price.

 

CHAPTER X.

COIN DEPARTMENT.

Complete and standard list of American silver and copper coins which command a premium:

UNITED STATES SILVER DOLLARS.

LIBERTY 1794 Silver Dollar
LIBERTY 1794 1794  Flowing Hair $ 20 00 1794  Flowing Hair, Fine 30 00 1795  Flowing Hair 1 25 1796  Fillet Head 1 25 1796  Fillet Head 1 60 1797  Fillet Head, 6 Stars Facing 1 60 1797  Fillet Head, 7 Stars Facing 1 60 1798  Fillet Head, 13 Stars, Small Eagle 1 50 1798  Fillet Head, 15 Stars, Small Eagle 2 00 1798  13 Stars, Large Eagle 1 10 1799  5 Stars Facing 1 40 1799  6 Stars Facing 1 10 1800  Spread Eagle 1 15 1801  Spread Eagle 1 30 1802  Spread Eagle 1 30 1802  over 1801, Spread Eagle 1 35 1803  Spread Eagle 1 35


1804 DOLLAR.

Front and back of an 1804 dollar 1804  Excessively Rare $500 00 1840  Liberty Seated 1 05 1841  Liberty Seated 1 05 1844  Liberty Seated 1 05 1845  Liberty Seated 1 05 1848  Liberty Seated 1 15 1849  Liberty Seated 1 05 1851  Liberty Seated 23 00 1852  Liberty Seated 23 00 1853  Liberty Seated 1 10 1854  Liberty Seated 2 50 1855  Liberty Seated 1 60 1856  Liberty Seated 1 50 1857  Liberty Seated 1 50 1858  Liberty Seated 23 00 1861  Liberty Seated 1 05 1862  Liberty Seated 1 05 1863  Liberty Seated 1 05 1864  Liberty Seated 1 05 1865  Liberty Seated 1 05 1866  Liberty Seated 1 05 1867  Liberty Seated 1 05 1868  Liberty Seated 1 05 1869  Liberty Seated 1 05 1879  Trade Dollar 1 05 1880  Trade Dollar 1 05 1881  Trade Dollar 1 05 1882  Trade Dollar 1 05 1883  Trade Dollar 1 05 1884  Trade Dollar 1 05


UNITED STATES PATTERN DOLLARS.

1836 silver dollar
1836 1836  C. Gobrecht's Name in Field $    9 00 1836  Flying Eagle 4 00 1838  Flying Eagle 17 00 1839  Flying Eagle 13 50


HALF DOLLARS.

LIBERTY 1794 half dollar
LIBERTY 1794 1794  Flowing Hair, Fair $    2 00 1794  Flowing Hair, Good 3 00 1795  Flowing Hair 60 1796  Fillet Head, 15 Stars 17 50 1796  Fillet Head, 16 Stars 20 00 1797  Fillet Head, 15 Stars 18 00 1801  Fillet Head 2 00 1802  Fillet Head 2 00 1803  Fillet Head 55 1804  Fillet Head 7 50 1805  Fillet Head 55 1805  over 1804, Fillet Head 60 1806  Fillet Head, if Extra Fine 55 1807  Fillet Head, if Extra Fine 55 1807  Head to Left, if Extra Fine 55 1815  Head to Left, Fair 1 50 1815  Head to Left, Good 2 00 1815  Head to Left, Fine 2 50 1820  over 1819 55 1836  Liberty Cap, Milled Edge 1 50 1836  Liberty Cap, Milled Edge, Fine 1 75
Liberty Cap half dollar 1838  Liberty Cap $12 00

(Having "O" mark underneath bust, and meaning New Orleans Mint, under head like above cut. Ordinary 1838 half dollars without this mint mark are not wanted.)

1851  Liberty Seated $    55 1851  Liberty Seated, Fine 65 1852  Liberty Seated, Fair 1 40 1852  Liberty Seated, Good 1 75 1852  Liberty Seated, Fine 2 00 1879  Liberty Seated, Fine 55


QUARTER DOLLARS.

LIBERTY 1796 quarter dollar
LIBERTY 1796 1796  Fillet Head, Fair $    1 50 1796  Fillet Head, Good 2 00 1804  Fillet Head, Fair 1 50 1804  Fillet Head, Good 2 00 1805  Fillet Head, Good 30 1806  Fillet Head, Good 30 1807  Head to Left 30 1815  Head to Left, Fine 35 1818  Head to Left, Fine 30 1819  Head to Left, Fine 30 1820  Head to Left, Fine 30 1821  Head to Left, Fine 30 1822  Head to Left, Fine 30 1823  Head to Left, Fair 16 00 1823  Head to Left, Good 21 00 1824  Head to Left, Fair 35 1824  Head to Left, Good 60 1824  Head to Left, Fine 1 00 1827  Head to Left, Fair 17 50 1827  Head to Left, Good 22 00 1853  (without Arrows and Rays) 2 50


TWENTY CENT PIECES.

1876 $    25 1877 1 75 1878 1 75
Front and back of dine

DIMES.

1796  Fillet Head, Fair $    75 1796  Fillet Head, Good 1 50 1797  13 Stars, Fair 1 10 1797  13 Stars, Good 2 00 1797  16 Stars, Fair 1 25 1796  16 Stars, Good 2 00 1798  Fillet Head, Fair 90 1798  Fillet Head, Good 1 75 1800  Fillet Head, Fair 1 00 1800  Fillet Head, Good 1 75 1801  Fillet Head, Fair 1 00 1801  Fillet Head, Good 1 75 1802  Fillet Head, Fair 1 25 1802  Fillet Head, Good 2 00 1803  Fillet Head, Fair 75 1803  Fillet Head, Good 1 25 1804  Fillet Head, Fair 1 25 1804  Filled Head, Good 2 22 1805  Filled Head, Good 20 1807  Filled Head, Good 25 1809  Head to Left, Fair 20 1809  Head to Left, Good 50 1809  Head to Left, Fine 75 1811  Head to Left, Fair 25 1811  Head to Left, Good 50 1811  Head to Left, Fine 75 1814  Head to Left, Fine 15 1820  Head to Left 15 1821  Head to Left, Small Date, Fine 15 1822  Head to Left, Fair 50 1822  Head to Left, Good 75 1822  Head to Left, Fine 1 00 1824  Head to Left 15 1828  Head to Left 15
Front and back of 1846 dine 1846  Liberty Seated $    25
Front and back of Liberty 1794 dime


HALF DIMES.

1794  Flowing Hair, Fair $    1 10 1794  Flowing Hair, Good 2 00 1794  Flowing Hair, Fine 3 00 1795  Flowing Hair, Fair 30 1795  Flowing Hair, Good 60 1796  15 Stars, Fillet Head, Fair 1 50 1796  15 Stars, Fillet Head, Good 2 00 1797  15 Stars, Fillet Head, Fair 1 10 1797  15 Stars, Fillet Head, Good 1 75 1797  16 Stars, Fillet Head, Fair 1 00 1797  16 Stars, Fillet Head, Good 1 75 1800  Fillet Head, Fair 40 1800  Fillet Head, Good 75 1801  Fillet Head, Fair 1 00 1801  Fillet Head, Good 2 00 1802  Fillet Head, Fair 20 00 1802  Fillet Head, Good 40 00 1802  Fillet Head, Fine 75 00 1803  Fillet Head, Fair 1 00 1803  Fillet Head, Good 1 75 1805  Fillet Head, Fair 1 60 1805  Fillet Head, Good 2 25 1838  Liberty Seated, without stars, Fair 08 1838  Liberty Seated, without stars, Good 20 1838  Liberty Seated, without stars, Fine 30 1846  Liberty Seated, Fair 75 1846  Liberty Seated, Good 1 00 1846  Liberty Seated, Fine 1 50
Silver three cent piece

SILVER THREE CENT PIECES.

1855  Large Star in Center $    10 1863  Large Star in Center 40 1864  Large Star in Center 50 1865  Large Star in Center 30 1866  Large Star in Center 30 1867  Large Star in Center 30 1868  Large Star in Center 30 1869  Large Star in Center 25 1870  Large Star in Center 20 1871  Large Star in Center 20 1872  Large Star in Center 20 1873  Large Star in Center 75


NICKEL, FIVE CENT PIECES.

1877 $    25
Coin

NICKEL, THREE CENT PIECES.

1877 $    40


COPPER TWO CENT PIECES.

1872 $    05 1873 90


COPPER CENTS.

Front and back of 1794 Liberty copper penny 1793  Liberty Cap $    1 25 1794 15 1795  Liberty Cap 10 1796  Liberty Cap 15 1796  Fillet Head 15 1797  Fillet Head 08 1798  Fillet Head 05 1799  Fillet Head 3 00 1799  Fillet Head 6 00 1800  Fillet Head 05 1801  Fillet Head 05 1804  Fillet Head 2 00 1804  Fillet Head, Fine 2 75 1805  Fillet Head 08 1806  Fillet Head 06 1807  Fillet Head 03
Front and back of a coin 1808  Head to Left $    10 1809  Head to Left 40 1809  Head to Left, Fine 75 1810  Head to Left 05 1811  Head to Left 25 1812  Head to Left 03 1813  Head to Left 15 1814  Head to Left 05 1817  Head to Left, 15 Stars 05 1821  Head to Left 08 1823  Head to Left 12 1857  Head to Left, Large Date 06 1857  Head to Left 06 1857  Head to Left, Small Date 06
1856 nickle

EAGLE NICKEL CENTS.

1856  Fair $    55 1856  Good 80 1856  Fine 1 10


HALF CENTS.

LIBERTY 1795 half cent coin 1793  Liberty Cap $    1 00 1794  Liberty Cap 25 1795  Lettered Edge 20 1795  Thin Die 20 1796  Liberty Cap 7 50 1797  Liberty Cap 25 1797  Lettered Edge 85 1800  Fillet Head 05 1802  Fillet Head 60 1803  Fillet Head 05 1805  Fillet Head 06 1806  Fillet Head 06 1807  Fillet Head 06 1808  Fillet Head 06 1810  Head to Left 18 1811  Head to Left 60 1831  Head to Left 2 00 1836  Head to Left 3 00 1840  Head to Left 1 75 1841  Head to Left 1 75 1842  Head to Left 2 50 1843  Head to Left 3 00 1844  Head to Left 2 00 1845  Head to Left 1 75 1846  Head to Left 1 75 1847  Head to Left 2 50 1848  Head to Left 3 00 1849  Head to Left, Small Date 3 00 1849  Head to Left, Large Date 06 1850  Head to Left 05 1852  Head to Left 2 50 1854  Head to Left 05 1856  Head to Left 15 1857  Head to Left 08



AMERICAN SILVER AND COPPER COINS
NOT ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES MINT.

SILVER COINAGE.

DOLLARS.—First coinage, 1794; none issued 1805 to 1835, inclusive, and 1837.

HALF-DOLLARS.—First coinage, 1794; none issued 1798, 1799, 1816.

QUARTER-DOLLARS.—First coinage, 1796; none issued 1794, 1795, 1797 to 1804, 1808 to 1814, inclusive, 1816, 1817, 1826, 1829, 1830.

DIMES.—First coinage, 1796; none issued 1794, 1795, 1799, 1806, 1808, 1810, 1812, 1813, 1815 to 1819, inclusive, 1826.

HALF-DIMES.—First coinage, 1794; none issued 1798, 1799, 1801, 1806 to 1828, inclusive. The coinage of half-dimes was discontinued in 1873 by Act of Congress.

THREE-CENT PIECES (SILVER).—First coinage, 1851; and then the dates follow in succession until 1873, when the coinage of them was discontinued.

COPPER CENTS.

COPPER CENTS.—First coinage, 1793, none issued 1815; they then follow to 1857, when the coinage was changed to nickel. The nickel cent of 1856 was only a pattern, which continued during this year up to 1864, inclusive. The bronze cent was introduced in this year. In 1865 the nickel cent was discontinued, and up to date the bronze cents are issued.

HALF-CENTS.—First coinage, 1793; none issued 1798, 1799, 1801, 1812 to 1824, inclusive; 1827, 1837, 1838, 1839; in 1857 the issue of half-cents was discontinued.

In 1864 the two-cent piece in bronze was introduced, and discontinued in 1873, by Act of Congress.

In 1865 the three-cent nickel piece was first issued.

In 1866 the five-cent piece was first issued; a very few were struck in 1865 as pattern. In 1883 the die was changed to that of the current issue with liberty head. Although upwards of five million coins of the 1883 nickels without the words "cents" were issued, they will in the course of a few years command a premium. At present they are still quite common.


  LOISETTE'S SYSTEM OF MEMORY.

So much has been said about Loisette's memory system, the art has been so widely advertised, and so carefully guarded from all the profane who do not send five or many dollars to the professor, that a few pages showing how every man may be his own Loisette, may be both interesting and valuable.

In the first place, the system is a good one, and well worth the labor of mastering, and if the directions are implicitly followed there can be no doubt that the memory will be greatly strengthened and improved, and that mnemonic feats, otherwise impossible, may be easily performed. Loisette, however, is not an inventor, but an introducer. He stands in the same relation to Dr. Pick that the retail dealer holds to the manufacturer; the one produced the article; the other brings it to the public. Even this statement is not quite fair to Loisette, for he has brought much practical common sense to bear upon Pick's system, and in preparing the new art of mnemonics for the market, in many ways he has made it his own.

If each man would reflect upon the method by which he himself remembers things, he would find his hand upon the key of the whole mystery. For instance, the author was once trying to remember the word blythe. There occurred to my mind the words "Bellman," "Belle," and then the verse

—the peasant upward climbing

Hears the bells of Buloss chiming.

"Barcarole," "Barrack," and so on, until the word "blythe" presented itself with a strange insistence, long after I had ceased trying to recall it.

On another occasion, when trying to recall the name "Richardson," I got the words "hay-rick," "Robertson," "Randallstown," and finally "wealthy," from which naturally I got "rich" and "Richardson" almost in a breath.

Still another example: trying to recall the name of an old schoolmate, "Grady," I got "Brady," "grave," "gaseous," "gastronome," "gracious," and I finally abandoned the attempt, simply saying to myself that it began with a "G," and there was an "a" sound after it. The next morning, when thinking of something entirely different, this name "Grady" came up in my mind with as much distinctness as though some one had whispered it in my ear. This remembering was done without any conscious effort on my part, and was evidently the result of the exertion made the day before, when mnemonic processes were put to work. Every reader must have had similar experience, which he can recall, and which will fall in line with the examples given.

It follows, then, that when we endeavor, without the aid of any system, to recall a forgotten fact or name, our memory presents to us words of a similar sound or meaning in its journey toward the goal to which we have started it. This goes to show that our ideas are arranged in groups in whatever secret cavity or recess of the brain they occupy, and that the arrangement is one not alphabetical exactly and not entirely by meaning, but after some fashion partaking of both.

If you are looking for the word "meadow" you may reach "middle" before

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