Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1890 — HIS GREAT INVENTION. [ARTICLE]

HIS GREAT INVENTION.

There Was Millions In It, but He Needed a Little Capital. About six weeks ago a man wb« claimed to be in hard luck entered *- Detroit stove-store aud asked for ey. The proprietor gave him a dime and a blowing up at the same time, and asked him why he did not brace us and do something. ••Say! I’ll do it!” was the reply. “I m already working a big thing. It is a coal stove and a refrigerator combined—one side to cool your provisions in summer, and. tbe other to beat youi bodies in winter.” He was encouraged to go on, and in about two weeks he returned to inquire: - —™__ “Do you think it will make any difference which side is the stove and which the refrigerator?” He was told that it would not, and he went away to b<3 gone another fort night, and then to return and ask: "Wouldn’t it be a good thing to arrange to save the heat of the stove to run a washing-machine?’' He was warmly complimented on th« idea, and was not seen again until yesterday, when he returned with enthusiastic step to ask for a private interview and to say: “Got another idea! I’m going tc make the cold air which passes off the ice and escapes by the ventilator rus at least six fly-fans in the dining-room. What I want just now is a capital a $1,000,000 to enable me to experiment) and I shall writ? to parties in New York to-day. Meanwhile could vov advance me 27 cents and take a firm mortgage bearing 12 per cent In teres in gold?”—Detroit Free Press