Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-01-20

From the Danbury News.

From the Danbury News.
A Munson street man being told that
there were several pieces of tin which
needed mending, conceived the idea of get
ting an iron and solder and doing the
mending himself. His wife, filled with
vague forebodings perhaps, said that the
expense was such trihe that it would
hardly pay to do it oneself, to which he
responded:
"Iu admit that in this one instance it
would not pay, but there is something be-
ing in want of repair every little while,
and If | have the tools here for fixing it
we are saved just so much expense right
along. 1t may not be much in the course
OF a year, but very little helps, and in time
the total would amount to a nice little
lump. We don't want the AstOrs Juggling
OF all the money in the country, by graci-
ous.''
He got the iron-one dollar-and fifty
cents worth of solder, ,and ten cents worth
OF roSln. He came home with these things
and went into the kitchen, looking so
proud and happy that his wife would have
been glad he got them, were it not for an
overpowering dread of an impending muss.
He called for the articles needing repair
His wife brought out pan.
Where's the rest? Bring 'em all out
an let me make a job of 'em while Pm
about it.''
He got them all and seemed to be disap-
pointed that there were not more of them.
He pushed the iron into the fire, got milk
pan inverted on his knee, and with the
solder in his hand, waited for the right
heat.
E'That iron only cost a dollar, and it'll
never wear out, and there is enough sold
er in this piece to do twenty-five dollars
worth of mending," he explained to his
wife.
Pretty soon the iron was at the right
heat, he judged. He rubbed the rosin
about the hole which was to be repaired,
| held the stick of solder over it, and care
| fully applied the iron. 1t was an intense
| ly interesting moment. His wife watched
him with feverish interest. He said,
speaking laboriously, as he applied the
iron:
''The only thing regret about it is that
[ didn't think about this before we
Then ascended through that ceiling and
up into the very vault of heaven the aw-
fullest yell that woman ever heard, and
the same moment the soldering iron flew
over the stove, the pan went Gathering
| over the floor, and the bar OF solder struck
the wall with such force as to smash right
through both the plaster and lath. And
before her Mortified gaze danced her hus-
band in an ecstacy of agony, sobbing,
screaming, and holding on to his left leg
as desperately as if it were solid gold and
studded with diamonds.
''Get the camphor, why don't you? ?'' he
yelled. ''Send for the doctor! Oh, oh,
Pm a dead man - he shouted.
Just then his gaze rested on the solder
ing iron. In an instant he caught it UP
and hurled it through the window with
out the preliminary of raising the sash.
1t was some time before the thoroughly
frightened and confused woman learned
that some of the molten solder had run
through the hole in the pan and onto his
leg, although she knew from the first thai
something of an unusual nature had oc
CURED. She didn't send for the doctor
She made and applied the poultices her
self to save expenses. She said:
owe don't want the Astors Juggling of
all the money in the country, by graci
ous''
"Come, Maria, don't you be too cum
ming" he sheepishly expostulated.