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Show W WW WW Mi ii iii COST OF LOUIS' BUTTONS. Grand Monarque Said to HaVe Squandered Squan-dered $5,000,000 In This Way. Twenty thousand dollars for a drop-shaped drop-shaped pearl scnrfpln, $16,000 for a reurl stud, $4,940 for a coat fastener formed of a whito bduton pearl with gold bar, $850 for seven buttons en suito and .$775 for a pair of brilliant s!ccvo links tlieo are a fow of tho 1 rices realized s.t tho recent salo In London of n noble marquis' Jewelry. But, after all, everything Is comparative, compar-ative, and tho marquis' gems, rnre and costly though thoy are, would have boon qulto eclipsed by Lou'.a XIV's rorsonnl Jewelry. Tho "grnnd mon-nrquo" mon-nrquo" had ninny crazes, but for buttons but-tons ho had a posltlvo mnnla. In a s!i.glo year, lCS5,'ho squandered $G00,-000 $G00,-000 on them, nnd some of his purchases pur-chases nro well worth glancing at. On Aug. 1.-1C85, ho bought two din-monr. din-monr. buttons for 07,900 francs nnd covonty-flvo diamond buttons for 5SG,-703 5SG,-703 francs. Tho buttons for a sluglo "est cost Louis $200,oq0. Of tho 254 "boutonnlcros" used 1C2 contained five diamonds each, whllo tho remainder wero single diamonds. In all, tho "groat monnrquo" Is said to have ppont $5,000,000 on buttons alone. ' Man and Wife. Buxton, N. Dak., Sept. 12 (Special). Mr. B. L. Skrlvseth of this placo has been ndded to tho steadily growing grow-ing following that Dodd's Kidney Pills hnvo In this part of tho country. Mr. Skrlvseth gives two reasons for his faith in the Great American Kidney Cure. Tho first is that thoy cured his wife and thu second is that thoy cured himself. "I must say," says Mr. Skrlvseth, "that Dodd's Kidney Pills aro tho best remedy for KIdnoy Troublo I over know. My wlfo had KIdnoy Disease Dis-ease for years and she tried all kinds of medicine from doctors but it did not help her nny. An advertisement led hor to try Dodd's Kidney Pills. Tho first box helped her so much that she took eight boxes moro and now Bho is cured. "I al3o took threo boxes myself nnd they mndo mo feel better and stionger in every way." Dodd's Kidney Pills havo nover yet failed to euro any kidney dlseaso from Backncho to Rheumatism, Diabetes Dia-betes or Brlght's Disease. |