Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1875 — Different Ways of Piling Wood. [ARTICLE]

Different Ways of Piling Wood.

They tell us of some extraordinary Cincinnati wood-sawyers.. Old Mr. Crabapple is very much pleased with a gentleman whom he has engaged to saw wood. “ When he piles the wood,” said old Crabapple to his friend, “if one stick projects beyond the others he pounds it with the ax.” “ He’s a slouch,” replied old man Stubble; “you should see my wood-sawyer. When he getfe the wood all piled he takes off rough, projecting ends with a claw-hammer saw.” “Does he? Well, he couldn’t pile wood for me,” broke in old Spikenburg; "my sawyer piles the wood carefully _ and then goes over the ends with a jackplane, sand-papers them down and puts on a coat of varnish before he thinks of asking for his pay.” Then they all went into the Grand Hotel before Syntax could tell how his wood-sawyer silver- . plated all the ends of the wood and nailed a handle on the end of every to pick it up by. t ■ —A Detroit photographer says he’d rather fight a tiger with a snow shovel than to see a baby cojne into his gallery.