Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1917 — Some Queer Moneys. [ARTICLE]

Some Queer Moneys.

Iron money has been put into circulation recently in Germany. In Mexico cardboard money is in use, owing to the disappearance of metal currency due to the unsettled state of the country. Porcelain money is used in Burma and Siam, and feather money, manufactured from the short red feathers from beneath the wings of a species of parrot, is the ordinary currency of the Santa Cruz islanders. The Loyalty Islands, which lie in the Pacific to the east of Australia, are famous for their fur money. The fur, which is taken from behind the ears of the so-called “flying fox,” in reality a I large, frdft-eating bat, is woven into cords es «varlous lengths, and these constitute the ordinary currency of the islanders.