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Show Soup I'st'd us Currency. At Querela ro, near Mexico, soap is tho curreucy of the place and a leal tender for the payment of debts. The cakes are about tlie size of common brown Windsor, and worth a cent and a haif apiece. Each cake is stamped with t lie name of tbo town where it is current and of thu person authorized to niaixif.-icturo and utter it. Celaya soap will not pass current in Quere-taro. Quere-taro. It is by no means uncommon to use these cakes for washing tlie hands and faee, and thi-y never lo.-e their current value as lonij its the stamp is preserved. Detroit Free Press. |