People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Test your own cows by taking ordinary glass tumblers of equal size. Keep milk from each cow separate and strain, using a tumbler for each cow. Don't till too full. Mark name of cow on tumbler. Sot the tumbler in ice oi spring water twelve hours. Taki carpenter’s rule havidg inches marked to sixteenths. With this yeti can measure cream and tel! which COW gives the richest mill; and which the poorest. Little Fred was kept in the house one day when the ground was covered with ice. His mother told him that if he went out he would most certainly fall and break his neck. In the night a thaw set in, and the next morning, when Fred went to tin door, he shouted joyfully. to his mother: “Mamma, I can go out now, for the danger of breaking my neck is all melted off. 1 ’ The People’s Pilot, at Rensselaer, announces to its readers that hereafter the price of the paper for one year not in advance will be $1.25, otherwise it remains at the old price. That is right and just, and we have thought of making the same rule. We have stated time and again that $1 in advance was the price of the Enterprise.— Wolcott Enterprise.

The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago earned in the second week of January, $43,479, a decrease as compared with the same week of 1893 of $511; the Lake Erie & Western earned $52,430, a decrease this year of $5,408; the Chicago & Eastern Illinois earned $380,226, a decrease this year of $8,400. James Cunningham, the black face comedian with the Kickapoo Medicine' Co. had the misfortune to sprain his shoulder while making one of his funny falls, on last Saturday evening. The company immediately telegraphed to Chicago for his brother join the show and to fill the former’s place. Charley Burnett, colored, aged 15, is a raving maniac at the county jail in Muncie, Ind., as the result of reading yellow“backed literature. Whe» taken in by the police the boy had a pair of revolvers, a dirk knife, a dark lantern, a mask, and black cork smeared over his already black face.

We heard some foolish person remarking a few days ago, that they knew the backbone of winter was broken. We have been on the lookout for that individual since last Tuesday, with a big club. We shall believe no man, hereafter, when he remarks as to the forecast of the weather.

In blanketing horses, a writer in the Stockman thinks it is a bad plan to throw a blanket on a horse immediately on stopping, while he is wet with prespiration, for then the blanket becomes wet, and he has ah icy covering; but, he says, let them dry off a little before blanketing.

The ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity, would do well to call on Mesdames Wade and Grant when they desire anything in the way of dressmaking. They do first class work at lowest prices. Shop in Miss Belle Hughey’s old stand.

Parties desiring farm loans will consult their own interests by calling on or writing to F. J. Sears & Co., at the Citizens’ State Bank, Rensselaer, Ind. Their terms cannot be beaten and the commissions charged are low.

The delinquent tax list in this county showsbut few delina uents. Thanks to the energy of our county treasurer. Newton county has never had a more competent treasurer than A. B. Jenkins.—Goodland Herald.

You can save twenty-five cents on your subscription to the Pilot by paying in advance. Don’t forget this. Read our offer in another column. It means a great deal to us. Joseph Reynolds, of Rensselaer, spent Sunday in Morocco. It is reported that one of our fair damsels is attracting his attention.—Kentland Democrat.

Are you reading the Milk Church Column? If you are interested in dairying, it will benefit you to peruse it.