Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-08-23

| THE GRU people seem al
ways to be "bleSscd' with bad luck. For
instance, there i. Ezra Ezekiel; he never
has any streaks Of g0od luck. like his next
loor neirhbnr, who fell heir to several
thousand dollars All. no. Such luck
never comes to him. Instead of that, his
wife and children are always sick and he
seldom sees :, we'll day himself; con-c-
,ucntv. he finds it a hard matter to drag
| himself out of bed in the early morning
md set about business in a right earnest
vav The fact is. he is cO1stttuttOnuhy
tired.
He is constantly meeting with losses
HAT try him "outragrouSly.' No one else
yer has such lime rs he does. trying t."
Keep his head above water The horse
hat broke his halter and walked into the
open @ranarv and ate an overIlus of grain
md then laid down to die, was nerer like
my other horse; he was always breaking
his harness. Ezra Ezekiel knew the halter
md harness were weak and untrustworthy.
| Ana sOnctlnie he was going to have ii re-
p,ired. OF course it was not done till the
best horse was dead Then his finest COW
must get mired-just rs though there was
not water enough II mite further on that
She could get without trying to wade into
thc marsh He always intended to build a
! fence around that mirv place; but no one
had ever lost any cattle there and he did
not know why he sho lld Just now. Only
hat it was Just his luck.
If there comes 4 frost IN early summer
his crops are always nipprd a ll,lc worse
than any others. If tre>het his garden
md farm are the worst overlooked; if :,
! drought, his crops show the bleaching and
/ Iryiny process the earliest.
! His clOthcr never Wear smooth and tine
/ like other mems Warlrohcs. Merchants
always take il for granted that he is of II"
consequence and SO manage to pack their
shodly or secondhand clothing upon him
1t enormous prices.
If there ever VAS IN unfortunate person
that one WAS Ezra Ezekiel. He never la
anything he liked; he is always buiidin"
rir CASTLES and making great bargains that
are to bring untold wealth But he is sure
10 fail in his undertakings. 1t never
raincI diamonds unless his tub was bottom
upwar, and his hands tied behind him.
And 50 he must needs 90 through the
world grumblny ut his i'll fortune. Thus
ne makes himself and AL around him un-
comfortable 10y lis complaining. ;tnnic>>
life Mag Mtplt. IN .Noore's H'uu
VERMONT CorriI;>s.-This important
chemical i, manufactured in Stanford. Vt
and is remarkable not only for lis @Ir1t
purity ard strength. but tbr the uniIu,
method of Its manufacture. In all other
/ place, in this country. and. We think. III
the world. the manufacture of coppcr;t> h:t-
been merely conducted rs 4 secondary
operation. for using to advantage the Hclos
/ that would otherwise, be thrown away u
/ USELESS from numerous kinds of m1uUt;.'
turing establishments.
In STAFFORD, however. the one. which 10
>cmhlc>, chemically. iron pvritc-, is mined
from the Top of :. hill, and IS THROWN in til,
1tll. III he ,p- of perhaps Il thou and tons
each. upon Il previously prepared bed @!
wood The whole aft ,ir is then lighted
and Il vigorous combustion results. W!ir
hrow> of HE >urperlluou, sulphur con
tanned in the ore. \ stream of water l.
turned on, when the mass is Thought I,
nave lost Sufficient sulphur. and the hrHl
i lett over winter continuing heat enough
however,, to keep itself free from snow.
In the spring, after the frost is ont Of til,
ground. the Wa CT is again allowed To rrI
through the heap. m di>solv"- the cop
pcr;,-. The liIiid is thoroughly oyaporat-
ed by being allowed 20 tricklr over bou1h-
trli brush in the " brush house," after
which. whrt"vcr pt~~r> through i h.'ilr
To- a iydromrtr cal >lrcn-i h of about So
when 1t j. alloW,d IT, cty>tallizc in llr-r
sh How, ctmcnt-lincl pans. All the
I liquid, however. docs not crv>lnlliI'. Hlj
lhi, residue. on : mother liquor, n it j,
called, j. returned To the boilers to Iccriv,
i second heating. 1t then remains only
to gather up the beautiful green cryS al
.tnl ship them to the consumer.
CopprrH> is much used in dvrinT and it
The manufacture Of ink and prt->l:tn blue
Is we'll rs in tanning. 1t WAS ais" largely
cmlIolcd ut one time for the m nut tctur
of sui phuric acid. which latter received it
popular namr.-oil of vitrol. from til,
Fact that col p'.r;t> was commonly hnp"l
rs green vlllol.-- COM. Hntttt,H.