Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-03-25
MINOR HOUSEHOLD MlSERIES.

Nv entire household, including the hired
GIRL is full of satisfaction tonight over the fact
that have Just driven the ak handle into the
ax and wedged it there, 80 that it caunot un-
der any circumstances come out. Ii may read
like small matter TO you. but do you kuo"
that that helve had been loose for nearly i've
years? Yes, for five years that ak has Hung
itself across the yard whenever l struck
heavy blow. leaving the helve 10 my hand, aud
suppose | have decided more than thou,
sand times to 90 in aud get hammer aud
chisel and fasten the helve 10. l Was thrown
down and had my arm broken by the ak flying
off, two girls had their noses broken, We spoiled
the s,oye builers, nearly killed three boys, and
vet I didn't get around TO Tx the ak until
to-day.
Foster was telling me the other day that he
had finally glued the kaob on the bureau
drawer, and be seemed greatly relieved. re-
member when that kuob was knocked otf-al-
most seven years ago. | was helping him move
the bureau when the accident occurred, aud l
never was 10 the house afterward without hear
log Mrs Foster say:
"Coue Heury, haven't you got time to 6x
that knob on this evening"?
"Yes, Martha" he would reply, and yet it
Was seven years betare be got to it.
Seven or eight years ago my neghoor, Mr.
Goodwin, found COW among his cabbages one
day, and iD driving her out she Jumped over
the gate and broke one of the hinges. he
went in aud got a hammer, screw-drlver aud
screws to repair damages, but his wife called
him into breakfast just then. After breakfast
he hadn't time, aud SO it ran along until the
other day. He passed through the gate an
average of FIVE times per day for about seven
u. ~ in q he
had to lift it up, carry it around and be bother
ed for halt minute each time. Thirteen thou.
sand times be said to himself that he would tx
that couufounded gate, aud yet ye didn't do 1t
until the other day.
Some twelve or thirteen years ago was
taking diuuer with Turner, over on Adams
avenue, and his wife called attention to the
fact that she had that day broken the handle
of her big seven pouod fat-iron, and that she
must get another. The other day / met her
on the street, and she told me she bad replaced
that hatirou at last. For thirteen years, fifty
two times per year, she had used that broken
handled iron to smooth down her washing, and
every time she had said to herself that she
would 20 up town next day and order new
one.
Bristow. died last week. We We're warm
friends, and was With him to the last. Atter
ne laQ called tue launy up, ouc ny JUG, aoo
shaken hands and said good by, saw that
there vas yet something on his mind. l ad-
mooished him to trust me if he had dying
request, and be grasped my hand and re-
piled:
I've been trying to find time for the last
seventeen years to take the butcher knife down
to the shop and have it ground, and If it
wouldn't be asking too much of you, wish
wou'd see to it.. >.
promised him, but it may be twenty years
before i get the knlie to the shop, and ten
years more before call for it.
| can remember when old Mrs. Bagley died.
She had china teapot in her house which
had belonged to her grandmother, but she bad
always kept it in the drawer because the han
die was broken and wanted cementng. She
gave the teapot to ueighbor, who waited i've
years for bottle of cement, then four years
more to iod time, aud finally Knocked the
spout off while trying to mend the handle.
don't suppose any of US would forget the
day note was due, but if the knob should
drop pff chamber door, | expect that George
Francis Train. might be elected President be-
fore We would 6ud time to replace it.-M Quad