Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1883 — German Stores. [ARTICLE]

German Stores.

They are exceedingly economical in the matter of heat in Vienna. They have cold and-raw weather enough, but they are hot educated to the heat necessary. or considered so, in American domiciles. The German stove is an elaborate affair of iron or porcelain, with an ash receptacle at the base, a fire-box, and then flues that convey heat upward a foot or so and across to the Other side, and thence back again, till finally the pipe is reached, the theory being that when this heating surface is made hot it will last all day. little eoal. and it develops just enough only hold so much fuel, you simply sit and shiver, and wish you could sit for an hour before » good, generous, open grate, ; or. around a fiery furnace of a basebuyner, or, any American contrivance tot fighting th® frost king.*' ' > ■ HoM-evfetV tliey are educated to this sori of thing, and, I poor-thipgp, don’t know any better* j thaaid of and heavy clothing they managetokeep warm during the winter. In the sumhll Che heat they want. —