Show BOluS Money on the Midway The queer folks of the Midway will carry home with them it is estimated something like 1000000 as a result of their operations during the fair Not all of i is good money however So eager were the Plaisance people to gather In the shekels of the heathen Americans that they took no means of verifying the money shoved at them and the consequence was that they gobbled up thousands of dollars of confederate money Bills on state banks that went out of existence thirtyfive years ago leaden dollars halves and quarters were also taken with avidity and so much of this was in circulation that Captain Porter of the secret service has set an investigation in-vestigation on foot in order that none of it shall get on the market again One thrifty Egyptain who sold small coins worth 4 cents In the streets of Cairo for 2 has nearly 1000 in confederate con-federate money to show for his seasons work while the Algerians Assyrians Turks Copts Cingalese Nubians Chinese and other artless foreigners who kept small booths are well loaded up with paper money that represents nothing at all nowNew York Herald |