Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — Eels as Currency. [ARTICLE]

Eels as Currency.

Teacher Justesen, of Voel, Denmark, sold a pipe to a neighbor for twenty yards of eel. Another farmer bought it tho same night for twenf-l vo yards, and still another got it for thirty. The scores were settled by recourso to the near Lake Sminge, where eels abound, and all parties wero paid off to their satis action. The teacher’s share was forty-seven eels, which together measured up the required twenty yards. In •lutland. wliero eeU pass as currenoy, distance Is measured by smokes instead of mile--. It Is so many plnej of tobacco from one town to another. Tito Jutlanders smoko as they act, slowly. About two mllot is re koued to tho pi. o. Wny continue the uso of remedies that only relicv o. when Ely’s Cream Halna pleasant of application and u sure euro for Catarrh and cold In head, can he hud. 1 dan a severe attack of catarrh and bocame so doaf I could not hear common conversation. -I suffered terribly from rout-lug In nty head. 1 procured a battle of Ely’s Cream Halm, and In three weeks could hoar as well as ever, and now 1 can say to all who are afflicted with the worst of dlseatOi. catarrh, take Ely’s Cream llulm and he cured. It Is worth SI,OOO to any man, woman or child suffering from catarrh. —A. K. Nowmun, Grayling, Mich. Apply Balm into each nostril. It is Quickly Absorbed. Giv&s Kki.ikv at oncb. Price 60 cents at Druggists or by mall. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren St, Now York.