Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1914 — Don’t Get Worried About the Double-Faced Bill [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Don’t Get Worried About the Double-Faced Bill

DETROIT, MICH. —Beware of the double-faced currency Issued by the tinited States government, lest it land you in jail for a few days while the wondering folk of the country recover from an imaginary scare, and get the

government officials to prove that a $lO bill with a S2O back on it is a bona-fide note. Some time ago the printers of our United States money got some plates mixed and eight notes with a perfect print of S2O on one side and $lO on the other were put into circulation. The other night Nicholas Kowalski purchased a 25-cent lunch in a Michigan avenue Baltimore lunch. He tendered what he thbught was' a $lO note in payment. The clerk refunded

him $19.75. “Here, you have given me $lO too much change,” said Kowalski. “You gave me a S2O bill,” retorted the . * “I never had so much money in my if you will look in the cash register, you’ll find that it was a $lO bill,” laughed the patron. The waiter Opened the cash register and there was the S2O bill. He took it out and threw it on the counter. The bill turned over during the operation and there it was a $lO note. Both the customer and the waiter pinched themselves severdi times to make sure they were not dreaming. The bill remained the same. The police were called and both men taken into custody, Kowalski claiming that it was not the bill he had tendered the waiter, and the waiter alleging that Kowalski was trying to pass a counterfeit bill on him. The bill was turned over to government authorities, who explained matters. Hungry Manatee Always Bellowing for Eel Grass NEW YORK. —Once in a while a guest drops into the zoo and makes things a trifling embarrassing. Now, for example,- you take Pa Knick’s very latest guest, a most amiable old manatee which lately splashed Into the tank

at the Aquarium after having come all the way from “down South.*’ Sure he’s welcome, but the matter of making him feel so is something else again. You know there Is nothing makes one feel quite so at home as to find just what he likes to eat on the table. But when ypu have an old cow-faced, herbivorous, manatoid, airenian mammal on your hands that likes nothing better to eat than salt eel grass, and when that isn’t handy most any other

kind of water grass, why, it Is hard to ' \ keep him In salad. Thus far the hosts down at the Aquarium have been fortunate in securing eel grass flavored just to the manatee’s taste. But the supply isn’t always to be relied upon. Healthy adult manatees weigh a ton and a half when they get all they want to eat They grow tb be eight feet long.. How long they live no eno knows. They’re good natured and like to be petted.