Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — Spending a Five-Cent Piece. [ARTICLE]

Spending a Five-Cent Piece.

A man will hold np his five-cent piece as majestically as though it were a sword when he pays his car fare. He will pull it ont of his pocket as though he considers it a diamond-studded Bnuff-box when he purchases a paper. But when it comes to spending it for its face value in peanuts the man looks as though he were transacting a miserably small and contemptible piece of business. He glances up and down the street to satisfy himself that he is not observed, and then slides up to the stand, holds his pocket open, and gazes about with dilated, bulging eyes while the peanuts are being poured in. in. Then ha hurries away as quickly as possible.— Annual