Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
OUR DOLLAR MARK.
Originally an Emblem of an Old Spanish

Originally an Emblem of an Old Spanish
..., City.
i. Thousands, hundreds. of thousands of
times every day is made the queer little
sign that we read dollar" The s
crossed by two straight lines has its
place on the great ledgers of the city,
millionaire, and Is shaped painfully by
school-boys and schoolgirls IN their.
first effert in.arithmetic. How is it that
the convenient little. symbol has come.
to mean. to everyone. dollar" Who
started the simple and useful fashion?
In the beginning Of it the two straight
lines were handsome pillars, the plain
little S~as Tong BANNER twined grace
fully about them, the whole forming
the emblem Of the powerful and proud
old Spanish city of Seville. The pillars
were the pillars of Hereulesn. the.
guardians of the strait of Gibraltar. On
the banner were the words Ne plus ultra,
mo more beyond, because in those days
people believed that the Strait Of Gi-
braltar was literally at the sends of the
earth" When Charles ". was about to
make some beautiful new money he
chose for the mint mark this emblem.
of Seville, city he loved and, honored.
He took the liberty, however, Of omit,
ting the me" from the banner. for by
this time men knew iit should read
more beyond Gibraltar-America
The money was carried over the world
by the enterprising Spaniards, and be-
came 50 universally known that the de-
vice upon it became the convenient sign
we now use, recognizable always as
representing the coin. As men had no
time to draw the. pillars and scrolls so
often the simpler marks have taken
their place. The dollar sign is thus the
memento of the great kgK and beautiful
old cfty..Goldth%aite's Geographical
Magazine, - :"
"A Sudden Suspicion That's a
fine looking dog of yours" ''You betl
He's full-blooded English fox-hound.
/ wouldn't take two hundred-two hun
dred-I wouldn't take two hundred
cents for him. You the assessor?"-
Chicago Tribune.
Mamma (reprimanding three-year-
| old SON, who is .fagrantly disregarding
table etiquette) -'Tf we. were at
another's table ]. should be 50 ashamed
of you / would not know where to hide
my head" Young Diogenes mot at all
abashed) You could put il under the
table. .''-Harper's BazaF.
Scene, street car. Two Vassar stu.
dents sitting together; one pale, thin,
and seemingly suffering. Enter pornp;
GUS college physician, whereupon EAfe
lady leaves pompous physician 20 hel
companion: Excuse me, yorr friend
is an inyalidP'' Eyes, she kAs heart
trouble" Probably IN aneurism?''
s'No. A West Point s4det-"
An Old Fe<y Saw-MilL-"i wal
just stopping to see your modus operln'
d." explained the visitor In the saw,
mill Eve amt got any" apologized
the sawyer. 'T've been tryin' to git
the boss to interduoe some of the new.
tangled inventions, but he says the old.
fashioned way is good enough for him. >
Detroit Free Press.
/ "A Matter Of Economy.-Reporter
| lin boat)-"How many times have
you been soverfowed here and lozt al
your fences end crops and Hys stocksH
Mississippi Flood Sufferer toa the rosf)
81 think this IL srbedt the 'levsatl
time Then. WIZ doA,t you mova
back to the h;,iag" "Movs2 Thunder'r
hghtp.n'l TAat'd cost me mighty nigh
ssS dollars Got any tobacker?" -