The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-11-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

deep yellow ones if you would get good,
sweet, salable butter.
An irate little man rushed into the
publication Office of one of our leading
daily papers lately, and pointing to a
certain article in late issue, demanded
to know who wrote it. An advertising
clerk, who is six feet in height, coolly
answered, az did," which so amazed the
questioner that without another word he
turned and left the Office.
A La Crosse paper says ct The forests
on the islands in the Mississippi are full
of gray squirrels. 1t seems these squir-
rels are now moving west, and the cap
tain of the ferry-boat says the river is
full of them swimming to the Minnesota
shore. The crop of nuts in Wisconsin is
small, and these squirrels go where they
may provide for the winter"
A young Albanian woman, above Or
binary weaknesses, while out walking
the other day, suddenly found herself
brought to by her hoop-skirt falling
around her feet Instead of leaving the
article Just there, and endeavoring to
appear to ignore the fact, as most women
would have done, she quietly picked it
up and made for the nearest shelter port
to refit.
An English custom is handbsll-ring-
ing contest. The competition for this
year took place at the Geological Gar
den, Bellevue, fortnight ago; special
excursion trains were run from various
parts of Lancashire, Stafords hire and
Yorkshire, and about twenty thousand
persons were admitted into the Gardens
in the course of the day. Fourteen
bands entered. and prizes were won
ranging from 60 to el4.
A physician out in Racine, Wis,
comes in for a scoring for the careless
manner in which he performed his pro-
fessional functions on recent occasion.
A young lady became suddenly i'll while
at church, tainted away and was con-
veyed to her home. The physician was
called in and pronounced her dead. Pre-
parations were made for the funeral a
large concourse Of people had gathered
about the house, and the clergyman had
begun to read the service for the dead,
when slight movement of the body
was noticed, and afterward faint beat
ing of the pulse. Restoratives were ap
Piled and the young woman soon open
ed her eyes and spoke to her friends.
She is now able to attend to her house
hold duties as usual. That doctor is
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der false pretences.
Dairy farming in the Far West is an
occupation which offers great induce
ments to farmers having but little capi-
tai. A man who went to Hall county,
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spring of 1869 bought twenty-six COWS
on credit and went to making butter
and cheese. In July last, besides sup
porting his family, he had built and paid
for barn, was out of debt, and owned
twenty COWS, twenty two-year-olds, fif-
ten yearlings, and twenty-three calves
to say nothing of six head of cattle that
he had given to q daughter for mar
riage portion. A man near Cheyenne,
Wyoming, started in the dairy business
in the spring of 1868, by milking five
COWS and carrying the milk on foot to
his customers. In the fall of 1869 he
was milking tifty-two COWS, all bought
from the profits OF the business started
on so small scale, and in 1870 he was
milking eighty-tive cows. For dairy
purposes the wild native grasses of those
regions are pronounced fully equal to
the richest clover or blue grasses.
The agricultural interests of Nova
Scotia are suffering seriously from the
fact that the young men and women of
that province are annually leaving home
by thousands to avail themselves of the
better prospects offered them in the
United States, while there are scarcely
any newcomers to take their places.
Hence it is a common thing to see aged
women tilling the fields. Skilled labor
is wretchedly remunerated in Nova Sco-
tia. A story is told of young man
who, at the end of three years service in
gas-fitter's establishment, was receiv-
ing $l.25 a week, and ON applying to
his employer for an increase of salary,
was assailed with outrageous abuse.
Disguised at this, he sailed for Boston,
where he received immediate employ
ment at $12 a week, and soon after had
his wages increased one-third. Girls
employed in shoe factories and similar
occupations receive from 62b cents to
$l.25 week, while by going to the
States they can easily earn more as SER
wants in one week than they could earn
in a month at home. The young men
who seek their fortunes in the States
rarely fail of success, and it is no won
der that annexation is ardently desired
by the masses, as it is considered the
only practical remedy for the present
: unpleasant state of affairs.
, 1t is singular fact that the extremes
, of civilization should meet side by side
5 upon our Western plains in the terrific,
l ries of Wyoming and Utah. A lady cor,
: respondent, Mrs. A. G. Woolson, who
I. has recently passed through the two ter
ritories, speaks of her feelings after leav,
ing Wyoming for Utah, saying: "a few
moments ago l was rejoicing that th'
D territory in which stood had honoret
!, woman as no State had ever honoreC
. her before, and now had come into
!, region, in the very heart of our Christian
=, land, where she is sunk to the loves
S position she has ever held in the early
S oarbarisms of the world, and where he
: intellect and her individual importanc
are as much ignored as if she were on,
t of the beasts that perish. We left he
r sitting at the councils of State, and nov
r we are to behold her the contented an,
:, abject slave of the bassst and most ma
Q terial needs of man. With such marke
r contrast in the social atmosphere @
j these two contiguous territories, we ex
: pect some difference in their outward as
= poets, and are almost surprised that n
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