Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-27
lmmIGRAxrS AND THEIR MONEY.

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IMMEGRANTs AND THEIR MONEY.
What 10 IL and How They Carry it
Curious Race Peculiarifies.
New York Commercial Advertiser.l
The peculiarties of the people of diff
ferent nationalities in their way OF car
rying money formed topic of converse
ton at Castle Garden the other day.
"Most Of tue English immigrants"
said ono of the money changers, "carry
their coin in small case in which their
soyereigns or shilings fit snugly, and
have the case attached to cham which
they keep in a pocket as they would a
watch. An Irishman always has little
canvas bag in which he keeps his gold,
silver, and notes all together. But
great many Of the Irish girls have their
soyereigns rolled up and sewed on the
inside of their dress, very frequently.
too, inside OF their corsets, and often
have to borrow my pen-kniie to cut
them ont when they come to get them
changed.
- have seen some old Germans who
woull pull off from around their body
belt that am sure must have cost forty
or fifty marks, and fish from it three or
four marks in silver to have changed.
The French mostly carry a small brass
tube in which they can place forty or
fifty twcnty-franc pieces, and remove
them very handily one at a time,
and only one at time. There are
very few Italians who don't owe a
large tin tube, sometimes a foot
long, which they have hung around
their 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 immense pocket
book that has generally been used by
their fathers and Prandfathors before
them. andwhich will have enough leather
in it TO make a pair of boots. The Sla-
vonians or Hungarians generally do not
carry pocket books, but they fed more
ways Of concealing what money they
may have than any class of people |
know Of Their long boots seem to be
the favoriie place, and in the legs of
them they also carry the knife and fork
and spoon with winch they have eaten
on their way across. But | have seen
them take money from between the
lining and outside Of their coats which
they would get at by cutting INTO a but
ton-hole. Some of them use their caps
and very many use their prayer-books,
placing the paper money on the inside Of
the cover, and pasting the hyleaf of the
book over it. Dut think more of that
nationality stow away their change in
side OF their stockings than any other
place, and don't take their stocking off
from the time it is put there until they
want to change it.
"What are the principal coins of the
different nationalities?
Austria-Hungary issues a form or
guilder, equal to 100 kreuzers, and m
STORM silver piece The form is worth
about ~ cents of our money. The
Netherlands count the same, only they
call their kreuZcrs cents and their florlns
guilders, and they issue lO-guilder gold
pieces. Denmark, Sweden. and Nor
way have decimal currency, 100 being
equal TO / krone, worth about Y cents.
Germans count 100 pfennigs to mark,
which is worth about % cents, and issue
thalers % marks), D., 10, and 20-mark
gold pieces. France, Belgium, Italy,
Switzerland, and Roumania use fraction
ally the same currency OF 100 centimes to
the frame, worth about 10 cents but the
Italians call their francs Iva, the Rou-
mauians lei, and the Swiss call their
ceutimos rappen, and have 1O-rappen
coins called batZen. Greeks count 100
lepta to the drachma. worth Is cents.
The Seryians use the French currency,
but call the francs dinars, and issue
gold milan. worth 20 francs silver
para. worth 20 centimes, and copper and
nickel COINS of %, 10, and centimes.
The Spanish coins are One real, worth
100 confines peseta, worth 4 reales
and | escudo, worth 10 reales; the
real is worth a little less than cents.
The Portuguese chief coin is the
milreis, or 1000 reis, worth about
81. The Russians count 10y roubles.
One hundred kopecks make a silver
rouble, which is worth about 70 cents
they issue now a great deal of paper
money in denominations Of !, ,, ., 10,
%. aud 100 roubles. The large coins Of
Turkey are the Ira or gold medjidie,
worth about S4.37 the plaster, OF which
it takes 100 10 make Ira; and the
becklik and altilik, l05 to make the Ira.
They keep their large accounts by the
purse, equal to liras. The Egyptians
have dimes, ten of which make plaster,
worth 5 cents. Algeria has a pretty
gold coin called a sequin, worth
a little more than s., and a mon
zonnah, worth about II cents. Mo-
rocco issues a blankeel or muzoona,
which is equal to floos, worth about
one fifth OF cent an ounce OF Okla.
equal to blankets, and mItkal, equal
to 10 ounces. in Iunis Is karnubs make
! piaster, which is worth about 10 cents.
In China the unit is the Haikwan tael (;
worth about Sl.25. 1t is equal to 10
mace, or 100 candareens, or 81, 900 cash.
Persia issues q silver kran, worth about
Is cents. copper and silver shadi, and
gold toman, worth about Sl.75. The
current coins of India are a pie, worth
about quarter of cent pice, equal
TO 3 pies anna, equal to 4 pice ] ru-
pee, equal to 16 annas, and / gold mol
mir, equal to 10 rupees. The molnir Is
worth about 1926 The japanese count
l yen equal to 100 sen; the yen is worth
about 20 cents. The South American
countries generally count by dollars,
sometimes called polsos or soles. The
Australian and South African colonies
use the British currency.
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