The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-03-05

the following inquiry from the office of the
attorney general of Ohio: Can we raise
vegetable to take the place of the pumpkins"
The committee had spent six weeks in max
ing patient investigation, and had come to
the firm conclusion that there was no use
trying to displace the pumpkin in the hearts
of the American people. 1t landed here al
most as soon as the Mayfower. 1t had seen
a band of a few hundred people grow to a
nation of $1,000, 600 1t had been attacked
by bigotry, abused by fanatics and revied
by the aristocracy, but it had lived through
everything and won and maintained
warm corner in the hearts of the
American people Inventive genius had
sought substitute for the pumpkin, but
each and every attempt had proved miser-
able failure The pumpkin had cheerfully
hitched along and made room for the squash,
the turnip, the carrot and the parsnip, but
it would give up no more ground. The
committee recommended that the club en-
courage the growth of pumpkins by colored
people throughout the United States and
Canada by offering cash prize
The report was accepted and adopted, and
the secretary was authorized to offer IS in
cash to the colored man in This country rails
ing the most pumpkins ON half an acre Of
ground.
NO OCCASION FOR IT.
A communication from Academy Corners
Pa. announced the fact that Col. Q. J. MUIR
ray, Of that place. had started on lectul-
ing tour to the west, and that he desired to
become a member of the Lime Kiln club.
He was impatient of delav, and asked that
the rules be suspended in his case In case
of his being made member right off he
would take in Detroit on his circuit and de-
liver his lecture on ''Ths Structure of the
Mule" before the club for $13
II doan' see no 'cashun fur any hurry in
his case" answered the president. II doan
eben see any need fur his startin out on a
tour. If he comes dis way We shall treat
him wild courtesy, but sha'n't ingage him.
to lectur on de mu g. ] reckon de moas' os
us know as much about de Htufe as we keer
to- If he has changed any in de las twenty
vars. or am gwine to change any in der ne1
twenty. we'll run our chances and save
dat $I3"
NOT MEMBER
The secretary of the Hoop-Pole Branch
lodge at Halifax forwal ded the following
clipping from Nova Scotia newspaper, and
asked If the person named was member of
the Lime Kiln club:
"A living curiosity in the person of a col
ored man has been giving private exhibitions
for a consideration. He is an especial o jet a.
of interest to the medical profession. He
claims to have-and apparently ha two
movable hearts. which he can move at will
from his chest to his abdomen, and a so a
double set Of RIBS that he cin side down
over his abdomen. He is man of remark
able strength, as he can with ease L. nd a
three-quarter inch bar of iron over his left
arm by two blows with lis right. He tas
evidently been an interesting subject to
professional men elsewhere, including those
at the leading hospitals of the United
States
Bro; her Gardner replied that the man.
whose name is Rho les. made application
about year ago, but was rejected by he
Sommittee on the grou IDS that living
curiosi y could not he expected to take any
great interest in national affairs While
the club we're discussing agriculture he
would be working his two sets of ribs, and
while foreign affairs were the special order
of the evening his two hearts wouli b,
humping for an engagement in dime
museum
RENTED
The president then announced that he had
remitted the fine of the following members:
Uncle William Cabiff, fined $S 0JJ for
taking home one of the bear traps without
permission.
for encouraging a row between Elder Toots
and Peaceful Jones'
Judge Cadaver, fined 50 600 for advising
Samuel Shin not to pay his pew rent in
Baptist church
The individuals alove named were all
present, and the affair was complete sur
prise to them All were so overcome that
they cried like children.
RESOLVED
Sir Isaac Walpole then introduced s-reso-
luton to the effect that the secretary cor
respond with the proper authorities In
Washington and ascertain if there was
colored soldiers home in this country; if SO,
where it was2 II not, why had this element
of the war been overlooked and uncared for1
The resolution was adopted and the club
then went into secret session on the forty
seventh degree and excluded all outsiders
Detroit Free Press
The Use of Oil at Sea.
In an article ON "The Use of Oil at Sea-"
by Lieut.. John 2. Holditch, r. N. R., the
author says: aThe results have obtained
are these: Fish, or COLA oil, only is of any
good; it does not matter how dirty it as long
as it is not thick. Running before gale
naturally expends much more oil than laying
to- you have so much more water to OIL
Carefully expended, one quart in three hours
for running, one pint in four hours for laying
to, viii be sufficient. The means l used was
a canvass bag (No. 81, with large holes
stabbed with needle. have heard OF
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