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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-22

CoLUsA is essentially Democratic
county. The Democracy up there is of the
genuine breed, and without any admixture
of doubtful elements. But the Democracy
of Colusa, stanch and true-blue as it is.
does not prove equal to the stomaching of
the Democratic assault upon material in
dustries of the coast. The fruit-growers of
Colusa have met, resolved, and sent on
theh protest to Congress against any tink-
ering with the tariff that will remove the
protection in the slightest degree, now ac-
corded to fruit culture in California. They
consider the interests of our producers
level with those of the consumers, and
do not propose to sacrifice their toll and
money expended in fruit-growing for party
sentiment. 1t will be interesting to read
the reply Messrs. Thompson and Biggs
will feel called upon to make to these Co.
lusa protestants. Unless it is more happy
than the expressions they are reported to
have made at Washington, each of those
gentlemen will be in the perplexing di-
lemma of facing in different directions at the
same time. They must be vastly wiser tina
they were here esteemed if they are able
TO reconcile the Colusa horticulturists to
the Democratic idea of striking down pro-
lection to California production.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30
Tw D Rich Cattle Queens.

The richest widow in Colorado was
the wife OF the late John w. Tiff, who
was known some years ago as the cat
tie king of Colorado. Ilif left about
100000 head of cattle. and it is said
that his widow manages his estate as
well as any business man could. She
went to Colorado as a sewing machine
agent, though she came of n wealthy
family and could have remained home
doing nothing. She there met Tiff and
married him. and doubt not the ex-
perience she obtained in connection
with the sewing-machine aids her in
the management of her fortune. Speak
ing of cattle, there is cattle queen in
Texas, near Corpus Christi-Mrs.
Rogers-said to he worth $1,000, 600,
and who has many times as much stock
rs job had in his most prosperous days
Her husband is u preacher, but Mrs
Rogers manages the business. She
sells the stock herself, buys all the
supplies. and can ride horse Ms well
as any OF the many cowboys whom shp
has In h9r employ. --Beston 7raUslsr,
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30
HOW TO BE A SAILOR.
Suggestions for Boys Who Have Decided
10 BE Navigators.

Suggestions for Boys Who Have Decided
10 BE Navigators.
Having decided TO be navigator. if
a boy has nothing else, let him at least
start with the consent and blessing Of
his parents or guardians. and then go
to work with the determination of be-
coming nothing else than the captain
of ship.
At the outset it would be n good
idea for II boy to go on one of the
United States training ships. where
Young Americans are trained to be
seamen. He must be between fourteen
and eighteen years of age. and will
not be entitled to his discharge
until he has gone through
he whole course of in
structon. If our would-bs seafarer
pursues this course. he will find it to
his advantage should he start life on a
European steamer. Still, he would be
possessed of great deal of knowledge
in reference to naval warfare which.
in that position, would be of no use to
him, and there would be very much
that he would have to learn, in addi-
ton to what he already knew.
Starting as an ordinary seaman. he
would skip the drudgery of ship
boy, and his promotion would be some
what mors rapid, though not remarka-
bly, so, for on the sea you have to be
thoroughly compe ent in one position
before you can rise to a. higher.
OF the four officers on an ocean
steamship the senior officers keep the
reckoning of the ship by observation.
that is, by means of the Stars, the
moon, and the sun. The third and
fourth. or two junior officers. keep the
dead reckoning. BY this is meant the
calculation of the ships position. indie
pendently of celes ial observations.
The pay Of the cap ain of an ocean
steamer will be f ON two Thousand five
hundred to three thousand dollars a
year. The first officer will receive
about nil hundred dollars a year, tho
second seven hundr I'd and twenty, tho
third and fourth four hundred and
eighty dollars a year. This will be in
addition to living expenses on board
ship. - George J. Manson, ST. Nicholas
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30
A Few Fashion Notes.

Gauze fans are all the rage now.
For young girls dresses of white mus
lin are in favor.
The large hat is universal for d;.y
wear this summer.
White flannel sailor suits for little
girls are often trimmed with many
rows of colored braid.
Silk is worn more at present than for
several seasons past.
The sailor hat is. il possible, more
fashionable than ever.
The jersey appears to be restored to
all its old-time favor.
Serge and flannel remain standard
materials for boating dresses.
Mourning silks are now out in all the
light weaves popular for summer dresses
in colors. N Y. World
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30
COMMISSIONING.
Practice Which, When Carried to Ex-
cess, Results In Death.

cess, Results In Death.
1t is perfe city well known to physicians
that excess i've Notwithstanding does
do great deal of harm. In the first
place, people who smoke cigarettes do
more smoking than those who use cigars
and pipes. If q man is going to leave
his office to run across the street for
minute, or is walking to the corner to
take horse car, he will not light cigar;
he knows it must be thrown away inn
mediately, and sense of economy re
strains him. But if he is in the habit of
rolling cigarettes, he may take Whit
at any time and is pretty sure to be al
ways doingit. The result is that where
non-smoker has the benefit of some
fresh air in the lungs whenever he is
out of doors, the cigarette smoker takes
in air charged with nicotine.
Smokers of cigars and pipes do not,
as rule. inhale smoke, but cigarette
smokers do Why this should be, it is
difficult to say. but it is an acknowl-
edged fact that it is so. 1t is thus easy
to see why the results of cigarette
smoking should be so baneful. The air
in reaching the lungs and the blood
goes through the windpipe and the
bronchial tubes. Between the windpipe
and the lungs the bronchial tubes keep
dividing into two This incessant sub
division reduces them ultimately to
great fineness. In the lungs they are
scarcely wider than hair. At the end
of each bronchial tube there is what
is called pneumonia glo bule. 1t
is in this globule that the air and blood
meet; it is here that the blood
becomes ''aerated." or oxygenized
In the case of men who inhale
the smoke of cigarettes. these
globules. instead of receiving fresh air,
receive air charged with nicotine. In
order to know the extent to which the
lungs receive the poisoned air it is only
necessary to remember that the area of
these pneumonia globules is some thou
sand and two hundred square feet.
There is popular notion that the
paper wrappings of cigarettes do the
mischief The paper perhaps does burn
the mouth. The wrappers of some Turk
ish cigarettes are impregnated with
opium, and these, of course, do harm;
but that is not the fault of the cigarette.
The trouble with cigarettes is that
people will smoke cigarettes at times
when they will not smoke cigars, and
that cigarette smokers thus use more
tobacco than other people. and that
cigarette smokers inhale tobacco and
take into the lungs air charged with
| nicotine. ~ Y Tanles.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30
GUTTER FOR EXPORT.
That Used by Uncle Sam Must Keep Sweet
for Three Years.

Zone hundred thousand pounds OF
butter in air tight packages. is what
Uncle Sans navy requires every year.
said an old butter packer. "a special tin
package IL used,' he added, (which is
hermotically sealed, either by soldering,
or by employing machine constructed
for the purpose, and we are obliged tC
guarantee that the butter will keer
sweet for three years. We use sim
liar package for all butter exported TIC
the tropics. 1t is round tin can,
which is filled from the bottom and
scaled by machine. 1t is made in ali
sizes. from half a pound to twenty-eight
pounds. Sizes above five pounds are
provided with a pail and an extra cover,
50 that they can be used as pail when
empty. The utility of the package is
of some moment in many parts of
South America and the West Indies
that the butter goes to. That they are
appreciated may be inferred from the
fact that have seen ladies use them to
boil laces in. We send the very finest
butter and also the poorest, according
to the demand. In some parts of the
West Indies butter is too expensive
and the inhabitants use lard, while
portions Of Venezuela. Costa RIGA and
San Domingo take the best butter that
that they can get. The export of but
ter to the tropics is a speciality in the
hands of two or three houses, while the
European trade is scattered among a
large number. We send butter to En-
gland and Germany in the original
.ackages. A good quality is called for.
but the high price of best creamery
keeps it at home, and only the fair
grades reach the other side. A few
years ago refrigerator compartments
were put in all the large steamers. but
they were too expensive and have
nearly all been removed. Now ship
pers wait for cool weather and take
their chances. The oleomargarine
scare hurt our butter trade in England.
but that is over now, and the bad sea-
son in Denmark and Ireland has made
the demand active. ~ Y Mail and
Express.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30
a Rare Bactrian Coin.

Mr.. A. w. Franks has presented to
the British Museum most remarkable
coin lately received from India. 1t is
a decadrachm of the Bactrian series,
the first ever met with. and bears on
the diverse a horseman charging with
his lance an elephant, on whose back
are two warriors; and on the reverse
King or Zeus, standing, holding a
thunderbolt and q spear; in the field is
monogram composed of the letters
ABB. The diverse records some victory
of the Greeks over the barbarians, and
the reverse may be a representation of
Alexander the Great. The coin evil
IDENTIFY comes from the district of the
Oxus. and was struck about the middle
of the second century, y. c.--N r.
Post.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

The Seabrook On. HI selectmen
have decided that hen is not an ami
nial. Wonder if they reckon her as a
vegetable because of her crop. -LoOeH
Courier
The Reason. Why
The reason we forgive the great
For the achievements they pursue, )
Is that we think some kindred trait
We trace in every thing we do.
Teas Siftings.
"A Frenchman has invented tele-
phone which costs but 624 cents. But
just wait till the company fixes the rent
before you waste any congratulations.
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30
PLEASANT DREAMS.
How Old Mrs. Jinks Put Nervous
Young Minister Mt Ease.

How Old Mrs. Jinks Put Nervous
Young MinIster at Ease.
sit amt ev'ry body I'd put to sleep
in this ROOM" said old Mrs Jinks to
the fastidious and extremely nervous
young minister who was spending his
first night in b. at her house.
This here room is full of sacred as
sociations to me-" she went on: my
first husband died in that bed with HE
head on them very pliers. and poor
Mr. Jinks died settin' right in that
very chair there in the corner. Some
times when come into the room in
In the dark think l see him settin'
there still.
my own father died lynn right on
that lounge under the window. Poor
pa! He was a Speeritualist. and he
allus said he'd appear in this room
again after he died: and sometimes
Tn foolish enough 10 look for him. If
you should see any thing of him to
night. you'd better not tell me; for
it d be sign to me that there was
something in Speeritualism. and I'd
hate to think that.
MY son by my first man fell dead
of heart disease right where you stand.
He was a doctor, and there's two
whole skeletons in that closet that be-
longed to him; and half-a-dozen skulls
in that lower drawer.
"Well. goodnight, and pleasant
dreams. "-PUck.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30

There are l. 405 lawyers in Boston.
"A husband is frequently a very
great sir prize to woman.
A man must ask leave of his
stomach to be happy man.
-Cherity, like jelly. shude be set
karefully away in the dark as soon as
made.
Beware Of the still man; he is get
ting your size and concealing his own.
Century Magazine.
Humidity conduces to humility
One is only little out of consonants
with the other. Boston Post.
1t is not until a man reaches thirty
that he begins to wrap the small bills
on the outside of his roll. Puck
Reason and kindness are the great
promoters of that harmony and hilartv
which generate friendship and affection
No man should be expected 70
write dry jokes when you can wiring
water out of his shirt collar Boston
Globe.
Sir Thomas More wrote in his Jour
nal: Il make it my business to wish
as little rs | can. except that were
wiser and better"
The wise head that makes a sight
draft on a sensible heart will have his
paper honored with full payment of
common sense. Whitehall Times.
The new two-cent stamp will be
green-a perfect match for those YOUNG
people who pour out their very souls in
ardent love letters. Someruiike. Jour
nal.
To make q salad, four persons are
needed: a spendthrift for oil, miser
for vinegar, counsellor for salt. and a
mailman to stir it all up.-Sidpey
Smith.
We write our mercies in the dust,
but our Affections we engrave in mar
bic. Our memories serve us but too
well to remember the latter; but we are
strangely forgetfui of the former !
Rmrdt NeW Yorker.
Wife Ito husband who has just re-
turned from visit) You intend
to go back again some time" Hus-
band-"Yes." Wife-"You must have
felt perfectly at home" Husband
40, no; enjoyed myself very much"
-ArkauSaU TraueIer.
Terrible storm that, last evening,
George Didn hear it, old man."
Didn't hear it? Man alive. it thun-
dered fit to wake the deadr' "Ha.
thought saw lightning. but l didn't
hear any thunder An old schoolmate
of my wife's is visiting her and they
haven't seen each othe.' for ten years.
Burdette.
Two lawyers. one a very large and
the other very small man. getting
into 2 hot dispute, the big lawyer said
to the other: If You are not more
civil, I'll put you in my pocket"
''Then,' retorted the little fellow,
you'll have more law in your pocket
than you ever had in your head. =
N. Y. Ledqer.
A couple of Belgians have invented
a portable telephone. which is designed
to be used in war. If it gets out of
order as often as the ordinary tele-
phone, the parties ut each end of the
line will be ready to fight before they
have talked into the contrivance two
minutes. -Nemnian independent.
Men will hurry. and rush, and risk
| their lives To get across the street in
front of il passing horse-car and then
stand five minutes idly on the curb
stone yainly trying to impress pretty
girl. who was married five years ago.
and who wouldn't look at them even if
they were gold-pIated and SEE with da-
monds. - S0naerUiHe Journal
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Good resolutions may pave the in
fernal realms if not carried into effect
n life.
Though God may seem to frown in
his providences, yet he always smiles
In his promises.
New Jerseys State Prison holds
$50 convicts, of whom lao can neither
read nor write. A night school has
been opened to be in session two hours
each evening.
The Pharisee thought it such a fine
thing to be good that God did not like
him nearly so well as the other, who
thought it sad thing to be bad
Macdonald.
The General synod of the Un,tas
Fratrum (Moravian church, has been
called to meet at Hernnhut, Saxony, in
1889. The General Synod meets once
In ten or twelve years.
1t would be hard to find simpler
or more comprehensive definition of
religion than this of Prof. Drum
mond's: 1.-The whole of religion is
summed up in coming to Christ and
staying with Him."
In Spain 10000 bells send forth
their summons to prayers from the
steeples of $4,000 churches. The weight
of these bells amounts to something
like 95, 600, 900 of Spanish pounds, and
the value about 10000, 600 francs.
We heard of a case of real distress
that happened in church. The collec-
ton was being taken up. and one lady
In anguish whispered to another:
"Nhat shall doP l have no change
less than a ten-cent piece!" GUILD $
Kq,egdar.
Friedrich Froebel founded the first
kindergarten at Backenburg, Thur
ingia, in 1887. 1t became the model
for similar institutions in many parts
of Germany and other countries. The
name means child's garden or child s
school. Froebers system was at first
regarded as dangerous, from the great
freedom allowed children. and in 1851
q kindergarten established by his
nephew was closed by the Prussiar
Government. -Ph,ladeJph,a Press
1t may be noted as cheerful indi-
cation of the ''signs of the times" and
Of the progress of the truth that the
japanese Gazette comedies the early
overthrow of Buddhism before the di
vine forces of Christianity. 1t con
fesses that the two can not exist at tn,
came time and in the same country
and that Japan may as well conclud,
to accept the situation and march for
ward and upward. 1t will be well TO
her if, in the change, and under com
petent Protestant advisers, she avoids
many of their mistakes. Interior.
The alumni of the University o
Paris numbered only 1000 last year
OF these no fewer than 3,786 were
studying for the legal profession, Will
$500 were attending the courses in tn
school of medicine. Pharmacy en-
gagged the attention of 1,767 students
letters of 92S. and science of 467
There were only 35 in the department
Of theology The female student
numbered 167, of whom 106 were DUAL
flying for a medical career. while 5
were engaged in literary studies
There were lady scientists. and onl,
! lady lawyer. Chicago Aduance.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30

An Albany newspaper says that
there are families in that town who
have got the art of keeping up APP
pearances reduced 10 a science. When
they want to make their neighbors
think that they have gone into the
country they are not content with he
old plan of shutting the front blinds
and living in the back of the house.
They leave their newspapers on the
front piazza. apparently neglected.;
but they take them in at night and
read them. at the same time supply
ing the piazza with old papers for the
next days masquerade.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30

Mr.. Moneybags (who has recently
acquired a fortune)-'Itsa shame and
a disgrace the way every body con-
spires to rob a richman." Friend
"What's the matter nowp" Moneybags
well, you see had little party
at my mansion last night, and to
amuse my guests / ordered some mu-
sic-one quartette; and darn my but
tons if four singers didn't crowd into
the room and sing, and / had to pay
all four of them, and mind you, ! only
ordered one solitary quartette. That's
the way I'm swindled every day of
my life, and am tired of tn Y.
Ledger.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30

In the rush for good things many
OF the old-fashioned flowers have been
sadly neglected, but it is pleasing to
note that ii reaction is taking place
and the marigolds. peoples, four
o'clocks, sweet williams, ETC., are again
euping into fayeE -. 49,.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-03-30

Some queer things are seen in the
veterinary hospital OF Philadelphia.
Among others are pig ca chair.
padded cell for lunatic hoi Sc. ~
Turkish bath. swinging harness in
which horse IN y live OF dis without
bearing any weight on his iegs.
, 1888-09-19

Temperance is superior to regularity,
and there is nothing regular in nature;
everything is governed by circumstances
and environment. The animal, vegetable
and mineral Kingdoms are irregular; they
may u by the season, but not to the
minute or the hour. Eat the right thing
Mt the right time, follow the dictates of
your appetite, and eat and drink with
moderation. This is the kind OF regu-
larity | observe. Inever have taken n
note of the hour or minute for taking
meals or doing anything else-circum,
stances control me-. You may inquire
what moderation is; and may say what is
moderation for one may be immoderate
for another. Very true. The answer to
this is that if persons do not know what
temperance and moderation are, it is their
misfortune. The plain truth is. that few
persons ever find put how to cat and
drink until age overtakes them and it be.
comes too late to RECOMMENDATION Mac
Donald in Herald of Health.
, 1888-09-19

Nearly all the Cinnamon in New York
are thigh livers" in diet. The poorest
laundryman will have chicken or ducks
at least once a week, and these are bought
alive, as Mongolians are extremely afraid
of stale meats. Contrary to the general
impression, rats, cats and puppies are no
more commonly eaten by Chinese than by
Americans. Poultry and pork are the
favorite meats. Vegetables of all sorts
are ~abundantly used; and pastries are
made in an enormous variety, but always
of easily digestible ingredients.
They are very clean in their cooking;
even the rice that they buy from Chris
tian groceries is washed with at least
seven separate waters, to make sure that
no trace of un-Chinese handling remains
to make it religiously pernicious. But
theyEallipossess an unaccountable love for
old hats. An ordinary Chinese laundry
man will wear the same hat for ninety
nine years-if it can be kept together so
long-and he would even then go into
three years mourning for it.-Wong Chin
Foo in The Cosmopolitan.
, 1888-09-19
a Big psro.echnio Treat.

An amusing story is told of a charita-
BILE lady here who planned q pyrotechnic
treat the other day for a big orphan asy-
lum just out of town. She invested $500
in rockets, bombs, ~pinwheels, and more
elaborate fireworks. such as were best
calculated to distract the minds of be-
reaved youth. A gentleman of her ac-
quaintance was invited to perform the
actual setting off of the combustibles,
which, while the display was in progress,
were piled on and around a chair in the
lawn He mildly suggested that it was
dangerous to have them so near while the
exhibition was being given. but the OBJ
lection was overruled by the hostess on
the ground that it was SO much more con-
venient to have them ready at hand for
use when wanted. So the entertainment
proceeded, beginning with the lighting of
a few Roman candles and other tribes,
which were intended to serve as intro
ductory to the more scrumptious and ex-
pensive fizgigs.
A very few had gone off, to the mex
pressible delight of the eleemosynary
small boys and girls seated on rows of
camp stools at a little distance, when an
envious spark CHANGED to drop upon the
chairful of fireworks aforesaid, and i'm
mediately there ensued a catastrophe of
the most appalling description. For quite
ten minutes the entire landscape was
ablaze. The operator and his assistants
got behind trees to escape the bombs and
rockets, which were discharging them
selves in every direction at once, while
the nonprojectile pieces formed a volcanic
pyre in the midst, vomiting flames with
incessant explosions. At length the erup-
ton came to an end, and just as the last
Roman candle was sputtering-while the
generous entertainer and the gentleman
whose aid she had invoked were ruefully
regarding the remains of $500 worth of
paper and gunpowder-a messenger from
the gathering of hapless orphans across
the lawn appeared at the scene. Her re-
mark was all that was needed to cap the
melancholy climax:
THAT last firework was an awfully
pretty one" said the little girl breath
lessly. "The children want to know if we
can have another one next just like it,"
Rene Bache in New Orleans Picayune.