Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1885 — The Iron Currency of Lycurgus. [ARTICLE]

The Iron Currency of Lycurgus.

First he stopped the currency of the gold and silver coin, and ordered that they should make use of iron money only; then to a great quantity of -weight of this he assigned but a very small value;'so that to layup ten minse (about sl6) a whole room was required, and to remove it nothing less than a yoke of oxen. When this became current many kinds of injustice ceased in Laced umon. Who would steal or take a bribe, who would defraud or rob when he cduld not conceal the booty—when he could neither be dignified by the possession of it, nor, if cut in pieces, be served by its use ? For we are told that, when hot, they quenched it in vinegar to make it brittle and unmalleable, and consequently unfit for other use.— Plutarch's Lives. Miss Kate Field definitely declares that women primarily dress fro please themselves, and the additional adornment is sometimes put on lor male admiration.