People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

One of the most curious forms of advertising of reoent date is that put forth by the Rock Island railroad, which has installed an officer oh its executive staff known as Rain-Maker inChief. This man claims to be able to produce rain at a few hours notice, and the company has hired him to keep the towns and cities along its road thoroughly supplied with shdwers. So far his efforts have been very successful, and the railroad is enjoying a boom that is turning rival companies green with envy.

Notwithstanding the hard season on garden truck Alf Donnelly says he will have ensugh potatoes to supply, his family with ’tater soup. He planted 18 or 20 acres, but will raise only about one-third of a crop, which will amount to 1,000 or 1,200 bushels. At the present price, one-third of a crop is much better than a whoie one at 25 cents per bushel. What crop will pay better than potatoes? Mr. Donnelly will realize about SSO per acre off of his land this year. The potatoes are large and of a tine quality.

Sidney Schanlaub, of Newton county, has purchased the Morocco Courier, and will take possession to-morrow. This is Mr. Schanlaub’s first attempt at running a newspaper, but his interesting writings under the name of “Captain Jack” show that he has the ability to make a first class newspaper of the Courier. We look fora much better paper hereafter and predict that he will make a financial success of the venture, which can not be said of tin* paper under its former proprietors. An exchange says,: “As a result of the money stringency a very peculiar coincidence is transpiring. All the ouo-dollar bills have been started in circulation again. A year ago or even six months ago, nearly all the one dollar bills were withdrawn from circulation by relic hunters, but since money has grown tighter these have been resurrected and now one may run across them every day. Every nook and corner is being scraped and the one and twodollar bills have been brought from their places of seclusion ‘and put into the great stream of circulating medium.

The financial panic recalls the story of how the cashier of a bank in an iron mill town stopped a run. He sent the janitor with a bushel of silver dollars in a rear room where there was a stove, with instructions to “heat those silver dollars red hot.'* They were heated, and in this condition he handed them out in a coin scoop. The depositors first grabbed the coin, then kicked. “But you’ll have to take them that way,” said the cashier. “We are turning them out as fast as we can melt and mold them, and if you won’t wait till they cool, you’ll have to take them hot. That settled it. The run was stopped.—Ex. It is predicted that ten years from now the familiar ice wagon will be a novelty upon the streets of a city, so general will have been the adoption of artificial refrigerators. For a long time brewers, pork packers and storage men have been independent of the ice crop, and the introduction of the cold-air pipe lines has supplanted the use of ice in hotels, restaurants and bar rooms, except wherein it is desired to make a % display of the crystal commodity. In time the distribution of the cold air will be as general in cities as is gas or water, and the system will be perfected whereby the refrigerating gas necessary for attachment to a family refrigerator will be delivered in a tank just like carbonated water is to soda fountains, once a month, or as required.

The Cook & Whitby English circus and menagerie which exhibited here yesterday was a revelation to our people, of the possibilities of a genuine Old World circus, and makes our well known and hackneyed shows seem very shabby and poor indeed by comparison. High class equestrian aud athletic exhibitions in .the three rings and the two elevated stages, new and never dreamed of by our American showmen, followed each other in bewildering succession, amazing and confounding the immense audience, while the numerous clown acts interspersed, would throw them into convulsions of laughter and merriment. We cannot praise Cook & Whitby too highly; their paiade, nearly a mile in length, was a succession of open dens, band wagons and blooded horses, all blazing in gold, silver and