Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-07-23
PEOPLE WE HAVE MET.

PEOPLE WE HAVE MET.
Persons who travel around a great
deal come across a number of odd
people, and no doubt most of you, as
you read these words, will recall
some of the peculiarities of certain
individuals who have excited either
ridicule, pity. or contempt by their |
queer OF unpleasant ways OF sayings.
Did you ever meet the Hurry family? |
One summer party had taken board
at farmhouse. One of the num-
Der had met a very sweet girl at a
city friends house, and through her
had obtained the consent of her par
ents to have their pleasant country
home invaded by a set of city folks,
all good enough in their way, but
ready to pounce on any little peculi-
arity that might be found existing in
the family.
''Dear me-" said Nellie Dunn,
''did you ever hear the word hurry
used so many times in one day by
one family?''
''Never," chimed in Agnes Lester.
sit commences at a. m. by the
clock, and ends just as my eyes are
filled with the last .siftings of the old
sand man.
s:And | believe" exclaimed May
Chester, "that somebody chants hur-
ry-hurry all through the small
hours, for I do declare / heard it last
night just as the tall old clock struck
one."
And each one of the city party
laughed and joked, and nick-named
the family in general "The Hurry
Folks"
In the early m ,rning, Farmer
Browns voice was heard in clear
tones, "Come, girls, it is time to get
up; hurry, now. Boys, hurry, it is
time to feed the stock
Then the active Mrs. Browns
cheerful voice resounded through the
old house: "Sarah, hurry and run to
the dairy and skim the milk. Hurry,
Mary, and work up the Bread" and
hurry was the keynote for every duty
performed. Even to dress to attend
church, hurry was the word, until
Kate Morris, the wit of the party,
and whom we all decided was totally
devoid of the bump of reverence, de-
clared that ''those Browns would
never be satisfied unless they shuffied
off the mortal coil in hurry, and
were sure they would be translated
on an improved lightning express line
to their celestial home" AS to some
of us, that simple, harmless little
word became so obnoxious that we
resolved the next time we applied for
board and lodgings ''where the cool
breezes blow" we would make espec-
ial inquiry whether the word hurry
was the household word, the rule of
three by which the inmates ate,
drank. slept, visited, worked, enter
tanned their company, performed
their religious duties, and as Kate
said, expected to die. And yet,
Farmer Brown and his family were
good, sensible people, and never
dreamed how that word sounded to
unaccustomed ears, amounting to al
most seeming rudeness, as they
would invariably add as we set out
on a pleasure drive, "Don't stay too
long hurry back %
MAKING GOLD RINGs.-Gold rings
are made from bars fifteen inches
long, about two inches wide, and
three-sixteenths of an inch thick, was
worth 81 900. 1t would make 800
penny-weight rings. A pair of shears
cuts the bar into strips. By the turn
of wheel one, two, three times, the
guillotine-like blade of the shears
chops the bar into slices one, two,
or threc-sixteenths Of an inch wide.
A rolling machine presses out the
strips and makes them fiat or groov-
ed. Each strip is then put under the
blow-pipe and annealed. The oxide
of copper comes to the surface and
is put into pickle of sulphuric acid,
the bit of gold is stamped with the
| quality and the name of the maker.
+ and is put though machine that
l bends it into shape of ring, the
e same machine making ring of any
size. The ends are soldered with al
e alloy of inferior fineness to the quail
a ty of the ring. Many people imagine
$ that rings are run in a mould because
e they can't see where they are solder
/ ed. The ring spins through The
!. turning lathe, is rounded and paret
and polished, first with tripoli ant
t then with steel filings and rouge
k They are now ready for market ant
n for matrimony.
Rev. J. E. G. Barham, warrenton N c., says: 81
used Browns Iron Bitters 1t is complete restors
| i've nd fonica and annetiZer"