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Show oo GERMAN ARTIST IS NOT APPRECIATED AMSTERDAM, Fob. 3. The artist who designed paper money of the denomination of 50 pfennigs which now is being circulated In several rural towns of Prussia, has been arrested ar-rested at Nieberlahnstein on the chargo of holding up the fatherland to ridicule. His offens.0 lay, according ,to the Maasbode of Rotterdam, in the ornamentation on the margin of the bills. After the money had been in circulation cir-culation for some time it was discovered discov-ered that the marginal decorations consisted mostly of drawings of articles arti-cles of food. Above a fiicture of a ham tho artist inscribed in microscopic letters: "A tender memory and a fond hope." Over a design of three turnips he wrote: "This is how the Germans live'" oo |