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Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
Gotham's Costliest Coach.

The costliest coach ever built in New
York has lately been sent to w. K.
Vanderbilt at Newport, R. I. 1t is a
Berlin coach with perfectly unassum-
ing exterior, the body being black and
the wheels and other portions of the
running gear, including the pole, dark
green, with fine black stripes.
The interior is of special design and
its fittings are believed to be more ele-
giant than those of any carriage ever con-
structed. The cushions, backs of the
seats and side panels of the doors are
upholstered in uncut royal purple velvet,
and the silk hanglngs of the same color
are relieved by tufts and valances of deep
rose pink. The top is finished in the
same materials. The semi-ovals and the
back and cushion of the rear divan are
stuffed with down and re-enforced by
hundreds of small steel springs made
especially for that purpose. The front
seat, being intended for men, is uphol-
stored with the finest curled hair.
There are completely furnished dress
ing cases for two persons, having minia,
ture carafes for water, small bowls, vel
vet brushes, mirrors and manicure outfits
of ivory mounted with oxidized silver
and dull gold. The card case and writ
ing tablets are of the same materials, and
there are cigar and cigarette case, an
ash tray and match box to correspond.
For the ladies exclusively there are silver
mounted ivory scent and smelling TASKS.
The coach is the first to be supplied
with an electric call bell. The current
is derived from dry battery under the
coachman's seat and the wire to the push
buttons are concealed beneath the velvet
upholstery. The bell is signal for the
footman to listen at the speaking tubes,
which are SO arranged inside that any
occupant can readily reach them.
The two lamps at the front Of the
coach cost $3.50 apiece. They are of the
tulip pattern, being made of six leaves of
cut glass, shaped like tulip petals and
inclosed in frames of silver supported by
sockets of oxidlzed copper.
This equipage is well called "bou-
doir COACH" Mr.. Vanderbilt will pay
$4,000 for it.--Neao Orleans Picayune.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
Fireless Nations.

According to Pliny, fire was q long
time unknown to some of the ancient
Egyptian tribes, and when celebrated
astronomer made them acquainted with
that element and how to produce it,
they were wild with delight. The Per-
slams, Phenicians, Greeks and several
other nations acknowledge that their an
cestors were once without the comforts
which fire bestows; the Chinese confess
the same of their progenitors. Pompan-
ion. Mola, Plutarch and other ancient
writer's speak of nations which, at the
time when they wrote, knew not the use
of fire, or had just recently learned il.
The inhabitants of the Marian Islands,
which were discovered in 1851, had no
idea of fire or its uses. Their astonish-
ment knew no bounds when they saw it
applied to wood; most of them taking it
to be some kind of animal which the
sailors had brought with them, and
which must be fed on wood.-Boston
Transcript.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12

pher had to pay him great deal to sit
for this portrait, but he is manufacturing
those fiat beads, which most of the
Pacific Coast Indians rate at one cent
apiece.
Indeed, shell seems to have been the
earliest, as it is now the favorite, money
among the lower tribes of men. Every
one has heard about the wampum of our
Eastern Indians. 1t was made of clam
and other shells, cut and worked to the
shape of ''bugle" beads, and was used
for currency, recording events, making
treaties and in religious ceremonies. The
finest old wampum belts are still in the
possession of the Iroquois of New York,
and the old treaty belt of Penn is in the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at
Philadelphia.
Sometimes whole shells are used, as
the cowries of Asia and Africa and the
tusk or dentalium shells of the Indians Of
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
SAVAGE MONEY.
SOME CURIOUS ARTICLES USED
FOR CURRENCY.
Clam and Other Shells Turned Into
Money-Feathers Utilized in
the Sandwich Islands
Boots and Cord.

There is no place on this wide earth of
ours, writes Walter Hough in the St.
Louis Republic, where there is nothing to
sell, or no money to buy with. The kind
of money people are forced to use would
make our boys who are familiar with
gold, silver and crisp green paper laugh.
Think of currency all the way from a
strip of odoriferous dried fish to beauti-
full nature polished sea shells and bright
birds plumage.
OF course, we speak of money in its
broad sense, meaning something conven-
lent to carry, a standard value to be used
in exchange or trade; something that
costs labor to get or make and of which
every man thinks it would be good to
get plenty. The pieces of leather of
the Greeks with the rude figure of an OK
scratched upon them, standing for real
OK, were just like our bank notes, but
gold is money because it represents that
much labor to get it and has real value
in itself, besides being rare, too rare,
most of us think.
Savage money has an advantage over
ours because it is used both for ornament
and coin, so that savages literally have
all they possess on their backs. One nee
not look far to find some remnant of the
custom among the highly civilized.
A transparency in one of the windows
of the Catlin Indian Gallery, at the Ma
tional Museum, shows an Indian drilling
q hole through piece of shell. He is
making money. Not that the photogra-
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12

In Corea sneets of paper pass Tor
money one sheet brings one quart OF
rice, or twenty sheets a piece of hemp
cloth.
In one part of the Mongol country
passed over by Mr.. Rockhill in his jour
ney to Thfbet, he found that boots were
the only things that people would re-
ceive in exchange for horses, food, etc.,
and he congratulated himself that he
had carried along two dozen pairs white
cloth tops and queer upturned toes.
South Sea Island accounts are squared
with bundles of cord plated out of.
cocoanut fibre. This cord is useful also
in decorating clubs, spears and fans, and
for tying the timbers of houses and canoes
together, since they do not use nails or
pegs.
The pocketbooks of sayages are as re-
markable as their money. In many cases
it is only string. Pouches of grass,
skin ana other materials are used. The
neatest pocketbook is that of the Hupa
Indians. 1t is made of block of elk
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
Rare Old Manuscripts.

Christopher Columbus wrote letter
to Luis de SAINT Angel, Escribaao de
Racion, of the Kingdom of Aragon, and
it was dated February Is, 1893. 1t told
all about the discovery of America and
was penned by the discoverer or board
his ship when it was off the Canary
Islands. At that time Columbus had no
idea copy of it would be worth $3.50,
but that is the price Bernard A. Qua
rich holds it at to-day, and he has the
original copy that was found in Spain
eighteen months ago by a Spaniard. 1t
was sold to French bookseller for a
small sum and then passed into the hands
of the bibliophile, Bernard Quaritch, of
London. Its great value lies in the fact
that it is the first document in existence
that tells of the discovery of America.
There have been Latin translations found
twenty-five years ago, but it was not
known until two years ago that Span
ish translation was ever printed.
In 5000 words he tells of the strange
country he thought was Asia, the natives
and their habits, both in trade and man
uCl "a h'iASt VI ehC . SiCab AiOuCo, csah 1io
signs himself "The Admiral" The copy
has been preserved in an old manuscript
bearing the date of 1896. The transIa-
ton is by Michael Krarney. Among the
other rare books Mr.. Quaritch now has
in his room at the Auditorium Hotel is
an Aztec picture chronicle of Champo.
allan. It was written on leaves of a
coarse paper, made from the maguey
fibre at Tezcuco in 1929. It is thought
to have been prepared as an assertion of
the claims of Emperor Ixtilxoch H., the
last King of Texcuco, who lost his king
dom just before the arrival of Cortez,
and by whom he was established.
This copy was preserved in Mexican
convent and passed into the hands of
Brasseur de Bourbourg, and later to Al
phonso Pinoit. Its commercial value is
$500. Another rare book is the 'sDeed
Of Nobility, printed in Granada in 1898.
It contains striking likeness of Philip
H., painted by the hand on vellum. The
original manuscript now in the city Is
worth $3.50.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
THE SIDE TO SLEEP on.

There's brilliant young physician in
Detroit who should have been great
American humorist. During the recent
hot weather patient who hadn't been
sleeping well applied to him for ad-
vice.
(which side should I sleep on, doc
tor?" he inquired.
'sIn winter or summer2" asked the
doctor, rubbing his chin thoughtfully.
'sWhat's that got to do with ita" ex-
claimed the patient, half angrily.
"a great deal," responded the doctor,
mysteriously.
81 don't see it.
'sOf course you DON'T" said the doc
tor, imperturbably; s'if you did you
wouldn't be here asking me about it."
.sGo ahead, then," and the patient
settled back resignedly.
sWell," continued the doctor, % in
winter, when it is cold, you shold sleep
on the inside; but in such weather as
this, you should sleep on the outside in
hammock with draft all around it
and piece of ice for a pillow. Two
dollars, please. Detroit Free Press.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12

He had slain the furious hon in Abyssinian
deserts,
Had faced the royal Bengal in the jungles
of the east.
Had cut the throat of polar bears in "Green-
lands icy mountains
And disturbed hungry grizzly in the
middle of his feast;
He had fought the pachydermatous rhinoc-
eros in Africa,
Had toyed with boa constructors in the
wilds of Senegal,
Had encountered the tarantula, the rattli
snake, and cougar,
But he said our blamed mosquitoes could
give pointers to them all.
-Neic York Herald
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
A SLIDING SCALE.

Down at the Savannah wharf I no.
ticed young man in delivery wagon
who kept cutting the horse with the
whip every minute or two, though there
seemed no occasion for it, and I finally
asked him the reason for it.
SCOT to get even, haven't II" he
queried in reply.
ssEven with who?"
"Why, you see, the boss himself
bounces the foreman around; the fore
man bounces the check clerk; the check
clerk bounces me-"
s.Wellt"
Sand as there is nobody under me
I've got to bounce this old horse to get
even. Whoai nowl Take that and
stand over and hold your head up!"-
NeU York World.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12

horn dug out to hold the aligo cheek, or
shell money. The opening is closed by
winding around band Of buckskin.
There must be some reason why women
have SO few pockets, and will persist in
carrying their money in dainty little
hand pocket, so tempting to sneak
thieves. suppose it is like the wearing
of ear rings, some habit of our primitive
ancestors, when our fore mothers bore
the burden of the household effects in
cares and money, while her liege lord
did the fighting.
There are, strange to say, aristocracies
OF money among barbarous tribes of
men, and one finds them prouder over
their boards of blankets, copper, feathers
and shell than the most purse proud mil
lionaire in the world.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12

iridescent colors, and the Indians from
California to Alaska value it highly, as
do the manufacturers of pearl buttons.
There is cloak in the National Mu-
scum that cost 81, 900. 900, if one esti-
mates the labor expended on it and the
value of the feathers of which it is
made. 1t once decorated the shoulders
of King Kamehameha, Of the Sandwich
Islands. The yellow feathers in the
cloak are found q few on each bird and
were valued at five for one and one-half
yards of cloth, valued at 81. so, forming
a currency quite as yellow and much
more valuable than gold. The kings
spent years in collecting feathers before
they could get enough for cloak. In
California the red crest of woodpeckers
pass current among the Hupas. Some
of the belts are made up OF the gay
colored feathers of birds and pass for 81
zach. A woodpecker's scalp is worth
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12

from 50 to SIS, and it does not require
many for the dusky suitor to purchase
wife.
In Alaska thin copper plates beaten
into the form of shield are money. They
are often painted or etched, and they are
kept by the rich old Indian bondholders
in a special room and offered food at
times. Duels are fought with them in
strange way. If native has been
lnsulted, instead of breaking his
enemy's head with club, he goes to his
own bank and breaks up copper or
two. The man who insulted him must
do the same or lose rank. Some of
these coppers are three feet long.
Copper currency is also used in the
ssDark Continent. The pieces are in
form of St. Annrew's cross, cast by the
natives and very heavy. They used to
be valued at slave. Traders were not
able to counterfeit these bulky pennies
SO as to deceive the sharp eyes of the
Africans. In Africa iron hoes are quite
common currency, reminding one OF the
iron money OF the Spartans. Mats, cloth,
brass and copper wire, and beads are also
African money.
Money in China has been made of
everything almost, from she'll to porce-
lain. The very interesting coins of an
cient times of peculiar shape are said to
represent the bronze hatchets that were
current very long ago. The square hole
in Chinese money is said to represent the
openings through which the shell money
of past ages was strung
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12

OF Asia as substitute for ardent spirits,
single large specimen being sufficient
to produce pleasant intoxicatien for a
whole day. By the Chinese still another
variety is made to serve as a dye for
silk. These are only few of the exist
ing curiosities in the fungus line
Washington Star.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
JoHNNY's REQUEST.

"Johnny," said the humorous gentle
man, .sgive me your little brother. Yor
don't want him any longer, and I'll make
a man of him.
"Can you do that, mistera"
ssIndeed can"
swell, let's see you make one cut of
me, quick, before ma comes; then I'll
fool her, for she's gone after stout
switch, aud II be back In a minute. ~
Sc. Louis Republic.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
A ooNenEssMAN's sroRY.

Congressman Mason, of Illinois, told
story the other day of somewhat re-
markable experience he had not long ago
on one-horse railway in the West.
ssThere was only one passenger car"
he said. sand it was full. So was the
conductor. At all events thought so
from the way be addressed me concern
ing valise by my side.
'ssTake that thing into the baggage
carl" he remarked very peremptorily.
81 looked at him somewhat surprised,
and without making any response.
sssDo you hear what I say2' he de-
manded.
eyes, do, answered.
ssHe went away to collect some tick
cts. When he came back some ten min
utes later he looked angry.
9. Il thought l told you to take that
valise into the baggage car he yelled.
sssI heard you,' l responded, mildly.
&c sThen why haven't you done lta'
".Because don't propose to-
"sYou don't, ehl'
"sNo. l do not
"sThe dickens you sayp he roared.
I'D have you know that I'm the boss
OF this train, and 1 don't put up with
impudense from no dudes. You snake
that bag out of here or I'll chuck it
through the window in Just two min
utes.'
cat that moment we slowed up,
approaching station, and the con-
ductor went out on the platform. More
passengers got aboard, and when he
came back several persons were standing
up in the aisle. just sat still, wonder
ing to have been called dude for the
first time in NY life.
usWhatl' shouted the ticket puncher
upon his return. 'You won't pay any
attention to what say, eha Well, here
goes
"With that he picked up the valise
and threw it out of the car window. We
were going at the rate of about fifteen
miles an hour at the time. said moth
ing, and quarter of an hour later ne
came through again and spoke to me.
Evidently he had been rejecting that
pOSSlDty le udN SANCSuOO AAAS eNeAoA~ ~sIe
sssI wouldn't have done it, he said,
halt apologetically, 'only you riled me,
and discipline's gotter be maintained on
board train
:" soh, that's all right, replied, with
entire composuie.
"sWell, what are you gong to do
about ita' he asked.
".About whats'
"sWhy the bag
"sOh, nothing Isaid.
"sBut weren't its contents valuableF
".I don't know, I'm sure l re.
sponded.
" You don't know9'
"sNo,' said. 1T wasn't my valise. :
ssMy dear boy, you never saw man
so totally flabbergasted as that conduc-
tor was In all your born days. got OF
at the next station and haven't the
slightest idea how he managed to fix
things up with the owner of the bag,
who had left it on the seat beside me
while he went into the baggage car to
smohe
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
A LRvEL.HEADED PARENT.

A Yale College student, being hard
up, wrote to his father in New York:
s.Send me hundred dollars by return
mail. He who gives quickly gives
double"
The old gentleman replied by the next
mail, inclosing $50, with the rem irk that
as he had responded promptly, the $50
inclosed were equivalent to the desired
S100.-Tecas Sytings.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
fAgAsuAR -eHiU
arp MS AoNev

Washington, Oregon and California. The
latter shell is hollow-curved tube
resembling tooth. They pass accord
ing to size from twenty-five cents to 50.
Broken bits pass as our small change,
and small shells are made into pretty
necklaces for the squaws.
The most beautiful shell money in the
world is made Of the abalone of our
Western coasts. When polished the
abalone shows lovely green, purple aud
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
JUVENILE PROBATION.

Anxious Mother-ssWha in the world
did you do during that terrible thunder
stormg"
Little Dick-'T got under tree"
.sHorrors! Don't you know tree is
most dangerous place in a thunder
storm2"
"Oh, I jumped out every time it
thundered. - Good Neps.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
A HINT. TINE, 2 A. NJ.

She-''Let US rehearse a scene from
Romeo and Juliet "
He-"With all my heart"
Sbe-s'But you must let me act the
part of Romeo"
He-';All right. Proceed"
She
Look, love. what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:
Nights candles are burnt out, and jocund
day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
He departed. .-Rarper's Basar.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
The Skewer.

The skewer was formerly used as >
kind of tally-stick, and it continues
to find similar employment at Lyons,
where the butchers rarely fail to stick in
the middle of piece of meat small
wooden cylinder announcing by so many
notches what every housewife knows to
be the exact weight of the meat.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
How to Wipe the Face.

Thousands of people, when drying
their faces after washing, wipe them
downward-that is, FROM forehead to
chin. This Is mistake. Always use
upward-from the chin to the forehead
-and outward--toward the ear
motions. Never wipe any part OF tha
facs Observation-Disclosures Reoerd
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
.tsUrFrorENr ron the DAY." ETC.

sssUFFroIENT FoR THE DAY." ETC.
Cynical Old Bachelor-"What makes
you grin like an idiot2"
Young Happicuss-"oh, I'm the hap
piest of mortalsl Tomorrow get mar
RED"
Cynical-"Yes, I suppose you are the
happiest man in town to-day. ."-Teras
Sytings.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
CHEERING HIM UP.

'I nevah get an invitation to any Of
the Flashers' parties" said Chappie.
"Well, don't be discouraged, old fel-
low" said Cynicus, "youll get one one
these days"
"You-aw-think sos"
"Yes. They're going to give a don
key part next week and it is almost cer-
tain that they will invite you."
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
A SUCCESS.

eyes" said Mr.. Henpecked, "woman
is undoubtedly the masterpiece of crea-
tion."
"H'm!" said Mrs. H., "then you do
think there Is some good in womana"
"Yes; when man was created he was
lonely and needed some one to talk to
him, and woman was created for that
purpose, and she's success"
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
FEARFUL.

sDawkins looks very pale aud anxious
to-day"
ssHe is worried. He is to have very
painful operation performed tonight.
"What's that2'
ssHe is to have porous plaster re-
moved from his back. Epoch.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
BUDGET0F FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.

Knocked Him Out - Striking for
Shorter Hours-His Not a Sup
posable Case Fatal
Valor, Etc, Etc.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12

and gazing at her in mock surprise.
"Ninel I'd think myself lucI-y if I
could get i"-Neso York Press.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
HIS.

He-ssI am resolved to live no longer
If you reject me. You-you-are my
lifei Speak!"
She-"Well, don't care if you take
your life, then"
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
srR1KrNa FOR shorter nouns.

Harry Slayer" you heard the
latest, Miss Flimsy2"
Miss Fiimsy-sYes, heard the clock
strike twelve. Aunsey's Weekly.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
FATAL YALoR.

"a tough fired at policeman yester-
day with heavy calibre revolver
s'And what did the policeman dot
Did he arrest the tough2"
mo. He arrested the bullet
Puck.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
NOT A sUPPosABLE CASE.

"No. Gubbins, you will never be
brain worker"
"Why notg"
'sHaven't got the TOOLS"
Passaic City record., 1891-09-12
sAvEDl


"Well, but Maud"-The absent.
minded youth was interrupted BY the
horror-stricken girl.
"Mauds Ny name is not Maudp
The situation was desperate, yet for
tune did not desert him.
.sBut, my darling Louise, what am l
coming around here for il it is not to
eventually change your namei"
She thought, of course, he had pre-
arranged the joke and he thus was
saved.-Pailadslphia Times.
NINE IN GERMAN, NOT ONE IN EsaLrsH.
Although she was German she spoke
English, almost perfectly, but under
emotion she naturally fell into the use of
her mother tongue.
"Will you give me kiss, he pleaded,
gently bending over her.
She raised startled and indignant
face to hls.
ssNine" she exclaimed in wrathy mega
tive.
'sNine" repeated he, stepping baek
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-23
Brief Tacoma News.

TACOMA, Nov. 22.-[Special THE jury
In the case OF Thomas Hinchey, charged
with the murder of George Martin, stood
seven for acquittal and five for conviction
OF murder in the first degree The verdict
OF manslaughter as reported in today's
Posr-lNTELLIGENcER was agreed upon as a
compromise.
The experiment station to be established
III connection with the agricultural col
lege may be located at either Slaughter
and Kent, the state board of agriculture
having had proposition from those places
for site.
The county school teachers examina-
ton resulted in fourteen failures. twelve
third grade, nineteen second grade and
four first grade certificates.
The annual report of the secretary of the
school board shows $244, ,399 expended,
which amount includes S76.472 in salaries,
$1l. .50l in furniture and $1l0, ,043 03 in school
buildings
Dennis Manning and Jack Milton.
bricklayers, quarreled last night after
they had been drinking heavily. Milton
accused Manning of trying to rob him.
Both were jailed.
A mad dog created a sensation this
evening at Ninth and G streets. Several
children narrowly escaped being bitten.
City Court Clerk Lurty, whose two little
girls were chased, shot the dog.
E. Bacon, of Montesano, and Mrs. K. S.
Buck, of Boston, were married at the Ia
coma hotel this afternoon. Mrs. Buck
came on from Boston to marry Mr.. Bacon,
who is a well-known Chehalis county
man.