Litchfield enquirer., 1857-08-27

the secret of all this trouble was detected
 The life-blood of the house had been oozine and flowing away through this furnace How much would 1t cost to repair it? More money than hot-air furnace would cost, and hali more than that So we determined to clear out the pet. Alas, (again,) how we fondled the favorlte at first, and how contemptuously we kicked 1t at last It is said that no one is a whole man We have partial gifts In our own case, the gift of buying was literally be- slowed, but the talent for selling was either withheld or lay in undeveloped embryo. How to sell the old furniture and get new one ! There is great psychological experience there. We aroused ourselves, gave several days to contemplation laid aside all other cares, Tan from furnace to furnace, saw six or eight pat terms, each one of which Was better than all the others, and all of them were able to evolve vast quantities of heat, with an imaginary amount of fuel. But fortune that had SO long persecuted us, did not presume to destroy us yet, and, as a cat with rat let us out of its paws for a moments ease. In other words. we arranged with Me$srS. Richardson < Boyn- ] ton to put their furnace in the place of the hot-air gentleman in black. And to this hour we have glad of it. \ winter and a half on Brooklyn Heights will put any furnace to proof And we are prepared to defy the north wind, the vest or the bosterous southwest They may heap winter as high as they please without, we have summer within.
 But oh, the changing It was mid-winter The mild weather took this chance to go South, and got in it's place the niggardeSt fellow that ever stood sentinel ill kantschatka The eel lar was divided from the kitchen in part by this furnace. For two or three weeks they were chstllng the tubes apart, a"d getting the rubbish out of the way ;-masons, tenders, iron men and new iron, tin pipes, carpelt rs, and then new air boxes, girls and diuncr, the lrishman wheezng at the pump-all mixed in such confusion, that language under the tower of Babel was cuphonious literature in com parison. Sometimes as we walked out, our good and loving deacons, in a delicate way, would warn us of the danger of being pufed up with the pride Of stylish house
 At length, after nearly six weeks of the coldest weather of the season. the new furnace took charge of the house. Water returned to the attic The girls no longer dreaded being blown up by the boiler at the range But the report came up that the sinks were stopped. Alter investigation, the kitchen floor must be | ging, and laid open Broken tumblcrS plates and cups stopped up the pipes. Another week for this. Just as we were sitting down to a dangerous peace, we walked to tie window one morning, to see that our yard had disap- pcarcd The roof of the store on which it was laid had given Way, and carried down all the earth crashing through the four stories to the ground Just one more thing was need- I II Il, II II; l, ,,r l, I fly, and dump itself into the East River Yet the misfortune Was not without comfort The store was used for grinding drugs. Ten thou sand pounds of salts, ipecac., rhubarb strych nine, and such like delicacics were hidden be- meath hundred tons of earth-the medicine being, where many people for whom it was destined, would have been, buried under ground For sevcra! weeks afterwards, 1 think the bills of mortality improved in the region around
 There were a great number of other things exceedingly convenient in our house. The Wa tcr-pipe from the roof to the front ciStern was carried down puhjn the wall to the ground. The bitter cold froze it up. Nobody could get at it. We salted it, We pokcd hot irons into the tap, we took counsel and finally let it alone. The corllice leaked, the walls were damp, the ceiling threatened to come off our neighbours pipe discharged so much of it's coll tents on the ground as to saturate the wall in our basement entry, tine area overtlowed into the cellar we dug a ccss-pool to let it off, and cut through the cistcrn pipe leading to the kitchen pump. It could not be soldered with water ill it, and the cistern must be run dry before that could be fixed. The attic tank gave out again. No water
 :" Water, water every where,"
 And not a drop-'
 to wash with Then came on system of beg gng We took the nciyhborhood in order, and went from house to house, till we exhaust e! the patience and the cisterns of every 1 friend within reach. Then We betook ourselves and the milkmen SlbsSted upon that.
 There was grand arrangement of bells at our front door, which seldom failed to make every body outside mad because they would not ring or every body mad inside because they rang so furIousy. The contriyance was, that two bells should be rung by one wire conl- mon bell in the servants entry, and a gong in ] the upper entry. The bell-traln was so heavy ! to draw, that 1t never operated till tine man got mad and pulled with the strength of an OK. But then, 1t went off with such a crash and jingle, that one would think a band of music, with all it's eymbals had fallen through the sky-light down into the entry. Thus, wo- men, children, and modest men seldom got in, aud sturdy beggars had it all their own way ] It was quite edfyiug to see experiments per formed on that bell. A man would first give modest pu-and then reflect what he was about to say. No one coming, he gave lon ger pull, and returned to waiting and medita- ton. A third pull was the preface to step ping back, surveying the windows, looking iuto the area, when, seeing signs of unquestionable habitation, he returns with flushed face 10 the bell ;-now for it He pulls as if he held a