Year: 1869




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PUTTI.V0 ar sTorss.


We take the following article on put.
ting up stoves nom the Utica Herald
That it oontaius much truth we know by
sad experience, and we believe that
nearly every man who has ever under
taken the JOB Of setting up stove can
say the same.


I've do not remember the exact date
Of tho invention Of stoves, but il was
some years ago, Since then mankind
have been tormented, once year, by
the difficulties that besot the task y
pattiug them up and getting the pipes
fixed With all our Yankee ingenuity
no American has ever invented auy
method by which the labor Of putting
up stove can be lessoned Tie job IS
rs severe and yexauous as humanity can
possibly endure, and gets more SO ey-
cry year


Men always pat their stoves up on a
rainy day Why We know not, but We
never heard Of an exception 10 the rule.
The first step to be taken IS to put on a
very old and ragged coat, under the i'm
preston that when he gets his month
full Of plaster it viii keep the shirt bos-
ON clean. Next the operator gets his
hand inside the place where the pipe
ought to 90, and blacks his fingers, ana
then he carefully makes a black mark
down one side of his nose. 1t IS i'm
possible to make any headway, in doing
this work, until this mark Is made down
the side Of the nose, Having got his
face properly marked, the victim is
ready to begin the ceremony. The
head of the family VINO is the big goose
OF the sacrifce-grasps one side of the
bottom Of the stove, and his wife and
the Eired girl take hold Of the other
eide In. this way the load is started
from the wcodshed toward the parlor.
Going through the door the head OF the
family will carefully swing his side OF
the stove around and jamb his thumb
nail against the door post. This part
Of the ceremony is never omitted. Hay-
ing got the family comfort in place, the
next thing is to find the legs, Two OF
these are left inside the stove since the
spring before. The other two must be
hunted after, for twenty-five minutes.
They are usually found under the coal.
Then the head OF the family holds up
one side Of the stove while his wife
puts two Of the legs in place, and next
he holds up the other side while the
other two are fixed. and one OF the first
two falls out BY the time the stove Ia
on its legs he getsreckless, and takes of
his old coat, regardless Of his linen


Then be goes for the pipe and gets two
cinders in his eye. IL don't make any
difference how well the pipe was put up
last year it wall always be found little
too short or li;tle too long. The
head Of the family jams his bat over his
/ eyes aud taking a pipe under each arm
goes TO the tin shop to have il fixed. =
When he gets back he stspi upon one
Of the best parlor chairs 70 soc II the
I pipe fits, and bis wife makes lin get
down for fear he viii scratch the var
nisA ol from tic chair With the nails il
his boot heel. In getting down be will
surely step Oh tue cat, aud may thank
his stars if il Is not the baby. Then be
gets az old char and climbs up 10 the
chimney again, to find that in cutting
/ tic pipe OF. tie end has been left TOO
big for the hole iu the chimney So be
goes TO the woodsIed aud splits one
side q Tie end q tho pipe, with an old
axe, aud squeezes il in his hands 10
make il smaller Finally he gets the
pipe in shape and hpds that the stoye
does otstand true. Then himself and
wife and the hired girl move the stove
to the left, and tie legs fall out again
Next il is 10 move 80 the right More
difficulty with the legs Moved TO the
front little. Elbow not even with the
hole in the chimney, and the head u
the family goes again to the woodshed
alter some httle blocks


While puitlag the blocks under the
legs. The pipe comes out Of the chimney
That remedied, the eibow keeps tipping
over, y the great alarm Of his wife


Head Of the family gets the dinner u
bic out, pHts tbs Old chair On Il. gets
his Wiie 70 bold the chair, aud balances