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Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21
ENGLISH STATE TELEGRAPHS.
Messages Cost ~ Ia Cents Each, and All
Must BE Prepaid.

hAuse DC EEepaius
The telegraph service of Great Britain
is undoubtedly quicker. more reliable
and cheaper than that Of the United
States make this statement after
proper allowance of the differences in
distances. 1t costs 12L cents for 10
words and cent for every additional
word. This for Great Britain and Ire
land-a uniform rate.
1t works admirably, as nearly all the
postottices are also telegraph Offices As
rule, the people are civil and obliging,
and the delivery of messages more
prompt than with us.
These postoffices, which include, as a
rule, news stands and stationers' shops,
are scattered all over the city, especial
ly in London, and one has no such trou-
BILE in getting postofice orders, postal
notes, stamps, etc., as is too often the
case in New York
Another great advantage of the Brit
ish system is that there is no such thing
as sending messages "colleot. You can
prepay an answer to telegram, and the
boy brings up blank with the telegram
when an answer has been paid for.
Again, if you write to any one and
want telegraphic reply, merely inclose
blank with sixpenny postage stamps
affixed. This saves the trouble of trans
uniting money or imposing on friend
for reply.
At one of the big city dinners few
weeks ago sat opposite w. Fl. Preece,
G. B., the engineer in chief and cleo
trician of British Telegraphic Wonder
land. He was greatly interested in the
fact that we counted the population by
the means of electricity, and of course
knew exactly how it was done.
The increase in 25 years of messages
alone from 6, 500, 900, when three pri-
vate companies controlled the business,
to 70, 900, 900 messages in 1894, tells its
own story. That the number of Offices
has increased threefold, now numbering
5000, and the miles of wire have in
creased from 60, 900 to 200, 000-surely
this indicates that the public are we'll
and oheaply served.
Financially the telegraph department
is today paying expenses, but not the in
terest on the money invested. 1t is
claimed, however, that the division OF
expenses between the postoffice branch
and the telegraph branch was of such
an artificial character that the two serv-
ices should be looked at together finan-
cially. This would show net annual
surplus of from $13, $50, 900 to SIS, 900,
O00-a very handsome addition to the
public revenues.
A uniform telegraph service, say, OF
90 cents per message, is no more, in this
advanced day of electrical appliances,
than uniform Q cent letter rate was
when adopted. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21
CURIOUS WEDDING CUSTOMS.
Some Odd Phases of Social Life In North
ern Michigan.

Some Odd Phases of Social Life In North
ern Michigan.
Many curious customs are in vogue
among the foreign population of north
ern Michigan, especially in social mat
tiers. When French couple get mar
ried, carriage or a sleigh ride is in
evitable, according to the season of tho
year. The couples are not packed to-
gether in one wagon or sleigh, but each
fellow and his girl have an individual
rig, the bride and groom taking the lead
and the others following like funeral
procession, but there is nothing funereal
about it, especially the pace set. After
the procession has been riding for hours,
a dance ends the festivities.
The Polanders have a curious we'd
ding custom that is very ingenious as
money getter, and takes the place of
wedding presents. After the wedding
feast follows dance that sometimes
lasts 10 to IA hours, and even longer.
The chief honor is to dance with the
bride, and this is decided in curious
manner. The mother of the bride takes
her place in one corner with plate in
her lap, which she takes very good care
shall be built after the plan of an eat
ing house coffee cup. The gallant who
wants to dance with the bride, and all
are in honor bound to do SO at least
once, must pull out piece of silver and
endeavor to chip or break the plate by
throwing their money upon it, and only
those who succeed in chipping or break
ing the plate are allowed the coveted
honor. Let those who think it easy to
break an ironstone plate try it. Few
succeed in doing it for less than 30
cents, and it is not an unusual thing for
the brides money to amount up to $75
or 800, even where the crowd is ap-
parently as poor as church mouse, and
it may go even higher when the bride is
pretty and popular. All the money goes
to the bride, and in a baokwoods coun-
try $50 to $75 will start happy couple
nicely in housekeeping. Detroit Free
| Press
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21
Metal Railroad Ties.

A protest against the denudation Of
Eprests in order to secure material for
railroad ties is made in a report issued
~ the agricultural department at Wash
Ington on the use of metal railroad ties
end preventative processes and metal tie
plates for wooden ties. 1t shows that
bout 20 per cent of the railroad mile
age of the world, outside of the United
MATES and Canada, is laid on metal. In
he United States little practical prog
less in metal ties is reported. The pro-
portion of track laid with metal ties to
the total length of railways throughout
the world has increased from per cent
ID 1890 to 10 per cent in 1894.-Rail-
Pay Review.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21
A GREAT SLAYER.

AS competition increases 1t becomes harder
and harder for the business man to succeed, and
in recognition of this fact, the public is often
informed that this or that thing has 'come to
stay" strong purpose is good, but doing the
ers we know of is Pain-Killer, the advertise
ments of which we are printing elsewhere.
This famous old family remedy has stayed in
the homes of the country SIS years, and is today
more popular than ever. This one fact proves
its value, and makes argument unnecessary.
1t only remains for the prcprietors las they are
that for over half a century Pain-Killer has
been recognized as the handiest, surest and
cheapest cure for the common ills of humanity,
and that bottle on their shelf will sooner or
later save them trouble and suffering and
MONEY!
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21
aTooK THE WRONG MEDIcINE.D
EWhy This Headline So Often Appears In
the Daily Newspapers.


the Daily Newspapers.
It is an odd trait in human nature
that man who has been ordered by his
physician to take paregorio will never
take it if there is any carbolio acid or
prussia acid in the house that he can
absorb in preference
Statisticians who have studied the
thing declare that an invalid will search
the whole house for poisonous drug
and drink it rather than the medicine
ordered by the doctor. The death no.
tioes in the newspapers in cases Of that
kind are generally headed, Took the
Wrong Medicine.
A man arrived at his home the other
evening, and glanoing on the bureau
saw a bottle of liquid that he had been
ordered by the doctor to take.
"a "That looks like the stuff" said he,
but I'm not sure. AS was locking up
The cellar l saw behind an old shelf
blue bottle that looked as if it hadn't
been touched for years. 1t said on it,
Sulphuric Acid Now that bottle on
the table looks exactly like the one /
Drank out of last night but still have
an idea that the stuff down in the cellar
Is what the doctor means for me. /
don't know how the dickens it got down
there when it's meant for me to take,
br how this bottle that isn't meant for
Ime to take got on this bureau. But I'm
bot going to take any chances. I'll just
10 down into the cellar and make sure,
Ind I'll throw this stuff out Of the win
dow."
Then he cautiously went down stairs
Ind took the sulphurio acid, and he
was buried in due form after an ambu-
lance surgeon had done his best and the
coroner's physician had made COM
plete investigation and autopsy.
1t isn't only children who make these
blunders Doctors will tell you that they
have only to label bottle Lotion, For
External Application Only" to make
sure of it's being drunk. If patient
gets bottle of corrosive sublimate to
but on a felon on his great toe and
doesn' t use it all, he will carefully save
it. Ten years afterward doctor gives
some cough mixture to him, and then he
goes and hunts up the corrosive subli-
mate bottle, plays three card monte with
10 and the cough mixture, gets them
thoroughly mixed up so that he can't tell
one from the other, and then when he
feels that tightness across the chest that
he doctor told him about he swallows
part of the corrosive sublimate and
leaves his widow to collect the life
Insurance By no accident is the cough
mixture ever taken-it is always the
corrosive sublimate New York Her
@ld
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21
CHAMPION SHIP.

In all the out door sports OF the season
he weather is playing champion to knock
>ut and close up games. A change will
,ome, of course, and with hot weather will
>ome the tiercer struggle to make up for
pst time. All this means a greater amount
a wear and tear to the body, to its muscles,
aerves and bones. What the damage in
lll will be from sprains, bruises, wounds,
1urts, infiammations, Commissions and the
Ike, no one can tell, but there is cham
pionship to be won, important to all, to
Which few give sufficient consideration,
md that is the triumph over all these
pains and mishaps in the surest, prompt
BIT way. St. Jacobs Oil is the champion
|emedy for all such ailments; it does not
1isappoint and never postpones cure for
my cause whatever.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21
LIKE A SIEVE.

The chief function of the kidneys is to separ-
ate from the blood, in its passage through them,
OF certain Impurities and watery PARTICLES which
make their finai exit through the bladder. The
retention Of these in consequence of inactivity
of the kidneys is productive of Brights disease,
dropsy, diabetes, albuminuria and other mala-
dies with fatal tendency. Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, q highly sanctioned diuretic and blood
depurent, impels the kidneys when inactive to
renew their sitting function, and strain from
the vital current impurities which infest 1t and
threaten their own existence as organs of the
body. Catarrh of the bladder, gravel and reten-
ton OF the urine are also maladies arrested or
averted by this benign promoter and restora-
tive OF organic action. Malaria, rheumatism,
c3nshratI0n, biliousness and dyspepsia also
MA 20 the Bitters, which is also speedily bene-
hcial to the weak and nervous.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21
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surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21
A Japanese Test For the Aspiring Bride.

A Japanese Test For the Aspiring Bride.
In Japan it appears that one factor
entering into the choice Of a daughter
in-law is her skill in raising silkworms.
There is more to this than appears on
the surface of the statement, for it seems
that the thread spun by silkworm is
regular and even in proportion as the
worm has been regularly and carefully
fed. The prospective mother-in-law
carefully and infinitely examines the
garments of the aspiring bride, judging
Of her qualifications by their condition.
This seems even more absurd than the
woman who said her son should never
marry a woman who could not keep her
top bureau drawer in order. New York
Times
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21

MUSIC STORE-Wiley B. Allen Co., the
Oldest, the largest, I'll First St., Portland.
FISCHER ranos
4 1O-CENT MUSIC-Send for catalogues.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21
HoITrs SCHOOL ron Bors.

Ira G. Hoitt, Phi. D., Master at Burlin-
the best schools for boys on the Pacific
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21

Attorney-You say, when you asked him for
the money, he used blasphemous langusge7
Riley-I did not, sor. said he swore at me like
q trooper
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21

"Was he warmly received upon the occasion
of his debut in tragedyW "Warmly? Why
they had to ring down the asbestos curtain7"
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21

Piso's Cure is wonderful Cough medi-
tne.-MRs. w. PICKETT. Van Siclen and
Blake AYES, Brooklyn, N. Y, Oct. rs, 1894.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21

A man who has never had the toothache does
|ot know the real pleasure there is In not nav
BIZ it,
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21

blood depends for its richness and purity.
a digestion stops, poisonous matter ac,
cumulates and is forced into the blood
there is no place else for it to go.
& The bad breath is danger signal.
Look out for it If you have it.. or
my other symptom of indigestion,
lake a bottle or two of DR.. P1erce.s
Golden Medical Discovery. 1t will
ttraighten out the trouble, make your
blood pure and healthy and full of nu-
Himent for the tissues.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-06-21
Try GERMEA for breakfast.

Foul breath is a
discourager of af-
fiction. 1t is al
ways an indication
of poor health
bad digestion. To
bad digestion is
traceab1e almost all
human ills. 1t is
the starting point
of many very ser
ious m aladies S.
Upon the healthy
action of the diges-
tive organs, the
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
CRICKET CHIRPS.
Anglo-AmerIcan Respective Cricket
Strength Reviewed.

Strength Reviewed
Looking analytically at the play OF the
English and American cricket teams the
fact seems indisputable that the latter has
made better showing IN the held than
their opponents. Also their batting
strength seems to be more evenly dis
Iributed than that of the old country men.
In regard to bowlers the English team is
better supplied numerically, but they have
no one equal to King-with an average of
5 for Al. Generally, the standard of the
two countres-judging from that of the
present visitors-may be said to be more
nearly equal than 81 any time heretofore.
Probably among the subscribers to the
Grace testimonial the most unique is that
from the Christchurch Club OF New Zea-
land. composed of members averaging 63
wears of age, with a president who is over
so. 1t was founded more than forty years
ago.
~ Tanpier took place last month at Casa
blanca between local team and II. NJ. s..
Arethusa and Fearless. The sailors were
defeated by so runs.
Some big scoring is reported from India.
In a recent contest between the Vozagapa-
tam and Godavari districts the irst-named
team made sos in their first inning, win
ming by an inning-300-odd.
We have almost reached the end in the
way of English cricket news this season,
the most interesting one In many years.
The competition for the county champion
ship ended with the Surrey Hampshire
match, and the positions of the various
counties are as follows:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
YACHTING.
Four-MIIe Race Between the Small
Boats of the Yachts.

In yachting circles there is considerable
interest taken in the sailing race which
will lake place tomorrow between the
small boats of the yachts Lurline, Jessie,
Ramona, Azeline. Virginia, Ripple and
Rover. The contest will be decided some
where in the vicinity of Sausallto over a
four-mile course which has been mutually
agreed upon by the boatkeepers of the re-
spective yachts who will handle the small
craft. The sailors have each deposited $50
and the total sum, $140, will be handed over
TO the winner. who, by the way, will give
his councillors a Friar Tuck dinner at
some prominent restaurant in this City
tomorrow evening.
The Pacific Yacht Club will wind up its
seasons festivities this evening at Sausa-
Ito, and a tug will leave Mission-street
wharf at 1880 with the members and the
invited guests.
The San Francisco Yacht Club will wind
up its season by q grand hop and dinner,
which will take place this evening at the
clubs handsome quarters in Sausalito. A
special tug viii leave the clubhouse at II
P. NJ for this City with the members and
guests. AS the San Franciscos are noted
for their hospitality and ways of entertain
ing a most pleasant time can be antici-
pated by the devotees OF yachting and
IerDsichOre.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05
SEA FISHING.
Good Rockcod and Sea Trout Fish
Ing Near California City.

Good Rockcod and Sea Trout Fish
Ing Near California City.
Bay fishing continues to be good near
Sausalito, and large catches of rockcod, sea
trout and other varieties of fish are daily
reported from the leading fishing banks
extending from California City to Point
Diablo.
On Monday last George Thomson, the
well-known angler, with two companions
caught about 40 pounds of red and blue
rockcod at Lime Point and the Sugarloaf
Rock, the largest weighing 5H pounds and
seven of them weighing over pounds
each.
On Tuesday Fred Barnard and friend
caught eighty-six pounds Of red rockcod,
the largest weighing Az pounds.
On the same day Gus Johnson, noted
angler. with two friends, caught number
of very large rockcod at Lime Point and
Point Cavallo, some of them weighing
from to pounds each.
Sea trout are getting more plentiful.
Some very large ones have recently been
caught in the vicinity of Point Cavallo and
Yellow Bluff.
Some very large smelt have been caught
recently at Target Rock ard near Belve-
dere,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05

hustle OF preparation on the part of the
members of the Canvasback, Mallard,
Teal, Foresters and Triple Alliance duck
clubs for the approaching shooting season.
Hunting lodges are being strongly over
hauled, blinds are being erected, cooks
chased. Stewart Epson, who is organizing
a new duck club, has lately returned from
the vicinity of Gait, where he has engaged
go acres OF buckwheat fields. which will
be placed in the charge of responsible
man, who will receive instruction TO allow
no one TO shoot over it save m EN- bers of
the new club. 1t is expected that they
Will get the cream of the maliard shooting
of the season as buckwheat is the favorite
food OF the mallard and there are alrea dy
thousands of the birds in that vicinity.
All the surrounding lakes and ponds
have been retained by the various clubs,
and are being baited with wild rice and
buckwheat, and the indications are that
this season will be one of the most
successful.
Nicholaus, Gerke and Epson, who have
been chosen to represent the Sacramento
Bluerock Club at the State Inanimate
target meet at the bay, have been smash
ing the disks, ana hope to make a good
showing among the State shots. The big
feast of the Pelican Club will come off
next week.
Messrs. Newbert, Graham and Barrett
have returned from their outing IN the
Sierras. They report deer as scarce,
mountain quail plentiful, and that fishing
is almost exhausted.
Russell Flint, William Leman and
Clarence Waterhouse, three crack stream
whippers, left for the McCloud River this
morning, where they will spend a couple
of weeks with the trout. They have re-
ceived advices from that quarter that the
fish are taking the fly eagerly.
The Capital City and Sacramento Ath-
letic Club WheeImen will make a Joint
run to Woodland and return next Sunday.
Great interest is being displayed in ten
mis- circles, and the coarts are occupied at
all times. burst of Wheatland is fire.
quent visitor, and is rapidly becoming a
crack.
The grand fall tournament of the Sacra-
mento Bluerock Club will take place on
October Is at the Kimball and Epson
shooting ground in this city.
The boxing contest at the Sacramento
Athletic Club, which occurs on October 8
is creating lively interest in club circles
and much speculation is being INDUCED in
as to the outcome, the entries for which
appeared in Fridays CALL.
RUTHERFORD.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-05

A STRAwBALING PREss.-An improved
press has been constructed for baling straw
as it comes direct from neutrality-suspicious.
The frame of the press is longer and
heavier than usual, the plunger has longer
travel and the feed opening is much
larger and so constructed as to increase
the ease and rapidity Of feeding. The bale
tying chamber is also six inches longer
than in the regular press. The machine is
made with either one or two fy-wheels, as
desired The machine can be run at a
high rate of speed with safety. The gear
ing is covered with guards to prevent the
falling of straw and to form protection
against accidents. When very rapid work
is required an extra feeder can be placed
on a supplementary platform. The driving
pulley makes from 500 to 600 revolutions
per minute. 1t is claimed that the press
will easily bale from three to four tons per
hour.