Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1889 — No Use as a Lamp. [ARTICLE]

No Use as a Lamp.

A stall-keeper on theoentrel market who had been “stuck" with a number Of green melons plugged one yesterday, poured a pint of kerosene into the hole, and after waiting a quarter of tn hour gave it to a colored man. Hie latter sat down on a boa to opt it, but after removing the ping and m tmell ho arose and returned the melon to the stand. “What’s the matter?” asked the donor. “lze mnch obleged, but I couldn’t nse it ouieas you’d frow in a chimb.y an’ a wick, an’ dat would be tuun' too ouch of anybody.*'—Detroit Free Press. rS .