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28 WISCONSIN IIISTORICAL COLLECTIONS.

1787, with the motto--'6Mind your business," with an eniblem-
atic chain of thirteen lillli~; n Nova Czsarea or Ncw Jersey
oent; two half cents, 1800, and 1853; a James the Sccoi~d half
penny, 1688; a Chinese brass coin; and an old copper coin of
1785. This collection embraces several very rare coins-the
Massachusetts, Franklin and New Jersey cents, are often
valued and sold for $2 each, and the Massachusetts half cent is
more rare than either. Some of these, Mr. Chapman has been
about twenty years in collecting, and thinks it is now time
they mere deposited where they will be placed beyond the
liability of loss, as nearly all of tb old and rare American coin
will soon disappear. Mr. Chapman further remarks, that ho
has seen a notice of the Franklin cent described as having three
links, instead of thirteen- and asks, was there another kind, or
was this a typographical error?
INDIAN ARTIQUITIES.-A stone Manitou, or Spirit of the
Rock, an object of Indian morship and regard, somewhat in
animal shape, evidently the result of the action of mstcr, about
a foot and o half in length, formerly locatcd on the old Indian
war-trail on the western shore of Lake Winnebago, presented
by Dr. D. C. AYRES, of Green Ihy; a peace-pipe, originally a
present from the old Winncbago chief De I~AU-RY, Oen. Z.
to
TAYLOR, then commanding at Prairie du Chien, made of red
pipe-stone, inlaid with lead ornaments, with a woodcn stem
nearly three feet long, from WALTER E. JONES; a stone battle-
s
ax, found at Kenosha, from W. H. BANNAHS; stone
hatchet found at Green Bay, from DANIEL WIIITNEY; a stone
hatchet, eight inches in length, found in Cottagc Grovc, from
ALONZO MARSH; a small brass kettle, three brooches, an iron
ring, a part of tt human jaw bone, and some paintecl hair, ti~ken
fro111 a mound near the bank of the Mississippi, at Prairie dn
Ohian, presented by GEORGE W. STONER; an ancient Indian
war-club, formerly owned by the Chippewa chief of Manitowoc,
%A-YA-TO-SHINOD, He.wh,o-lays-by-him~elf, mho died in 1838,
or
over one hundred years of age, from PETER E. GRIGNOX,
of Green Dog; two strings of warnp&, one of ~vhich ie mado