Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-25
Immigrants and their Money.
WHAT IT Is, AND HOW THEY CARRY IT-CuRIou
RACE PECUII ARIrIEs

Immigrants and their Money.
WHAT 1T Is, AND HOW THEY CARRY T-CuRIoUs
RACE PECULIARIrIEs.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser
The peculiarities OF the people OF different ma
tionalitles in their way OF carrying money formed
topic OF conversation at Castle Garden the other
| day.
"Most Of the English immigrants" said one OF
the money changers, carry their coin in small
case In which tneir sovereigns or shilings fit
snugly, and have the case attached TO a chain
which they keep In pocket as they would a
watch. An freshman always has his little canvas
bag In which he keeps his gold, silver. and notes
all together But great many or the Irish girls
have their sovereigns rolled up and sewed on the
their corsetS, and often have 10 borrow NV pen
knife 10 cut them out when they come to get them
81 have seen some old Germans who would Dull
on from around their body belt that / am sure
must have cost forty or ffty marks, and fish from
IL three or -FOUR marks In silver TO have changed
Inc French mostly carry small brass tube In
which they can place forty or fifty twenty-franc
pieces, and remove them very handily one at a
time, and only one at q time. There are very few
Italians VINO don't own large TIN tube, some
times a foot long, which they have hung around
thelr neck by small chain or cord, and In which
they keep their paper money or silver coins.
Swedes and NOrwegians are sure to have an i'm
mense cketbook that has generally been used by
their fathers and grandfathers before them, and
Wnlcn Will nave enough leather In IL to make q
pair OF DooiS- The SlayonlanS or Hungarians gen.
orally do not carry pocketbooks, but they ind
have than any Class OF people know OF Their
long boots seem TO be the favorte place. and In the
legs Oh them they also carry the knife and fork
and spoon with which they have eaten on Their
way lcroSs. But have seen them take money
from between The lining ana outside OF their coats
winch they would get at by cutting into a button
MOLE some OF them use their caps and very many
use tnelr Prayer books, placing the paper money
on t tue Inside OF t,e cover and FASTING the hyleaf
tlondllty STOW away their change inside OF their
STOCK ngs Than any other place, and don't take
their stockings on from the time it is put there
| until they want 10 change It,"
WnaI are the principal coins Of the different
austria Hungary issues a form or puiIder
equal 10 100 kreuzers ana Storm silver piece
| The nJrln Is worth about 40 cents or our money.
| The Netherlands count the same only They cali
their kreuzers cents and their urins guilders and
| they issue 1O-gulder gold pieces Denmark Swe
Gen. anu Norway have decimal Gu. rency, 100
| being equal 10 krone, worth about "a cents
| Germans count 100 pfennigs to a marx when is
worth about % cents, and issue thalers % marks)
Italy, Switzerland aud kOumania use Iractionaiiy'
! the same currency OF 100 confines 10 the franc
, wor.n apoat ~ cents; but the Italians call their
call their centines rappen. and have IOLrappen
CONS called Datzen Greeks count 100 lepta TO the
drachma, worth 10 cents. The Servians use the
| French currency, but call the francs dinars and
Issue gold milan, worth 20 francs; a silver para
o no ~ o6 ana copper ana nickel coins OF
reai, worth 100 confines; peseta, worth reales.
ana escudo worth 10 reaes; the real is worth
4
| Is the m1lreis, or 1000 rels worth about
| u. The Russians count by ruubles One
| hundred kopecks make a silver rouble which
| Is worth about 20 cents; they issue now
| great deal OF paper money In Denominations
OF 4 3 10. p ana 100 rouoles The large coins
aoou, $437; the plaster, Oh which It lakes 100 TO
make ara; and The oeckllk and altiiik, los TO
make the ira They keep their large accounts by
the purse equal TO 8 liraa The Egyptians nave
dimes. ten OF which make plaster, worth cents.
Algeria mas pretty goid coin called . sequih,
| worth about IN cents Morocco issues q blanKeei
or muzoona which Is equal TO docs, worth about
one-nth OF cent; an ounce OF okla equal to Z
4iankeei7 and INITIAL equal TO 10 ounces. In
Iuhls 10 kArnubs make plaster, which Is worth
about 10 cents In China the unit Is the Haikwan
tiei; worth about S1.25. II Is equal to 10 mace.
or lOO candareens or IL 600 cash. Persia issues 4
silver kran. worth about Is cents, copper and
| SILVER snadl, and god t0maL, worth about Al IA
Inc cur ent COINS OF India are a pie, worth about
aquarter OF cent; pice, equal to 8 pies; anna.
equal 10 pice; rupee, equal to 10 annas, and
gold moinn. equal 70 10 rupeea The moinir Is
wortn about S.25. The japanese count / yen
Squai 10 ioo sen; the Yen 10 worth about rs cents
| ne coutn American countries generally count by
COLLARS, sometimes called polsos or soles. The
australian and South African colonies use the
British currencyr -