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NEWSPAPER WAIFS. 
The cholera scare becomes ridiculous when a man 
will not stand in front of a brass band that is playing 
the “ Marseilles Hymn ” for fear the musicians will 
blow out Marseilles cholera germs with their music. 
—New Orleans Picayune. 
A Montrealer at the Caledonia Springs surprised 
the guests by drinking five hundred glasses of sul¬ 
phur water in four days, and thirty in ten minutes. 
He wants to make a match with somebody to beat 
that record, but he ought to be able to make a match 
of himself.— Loivell Courier. 
A Large woman handsomely dressed, with plenty 
of jewelry, recently entered a horse car where every 
seat was occupied. No one moved till at length an 
elderly gentleman slowly rose and offered her his 
seat. She took it deliberately with an air and said, 
“ You are a gentleman—a perfect gentleman. The 
rest is hogs!”— Every Other Saturday. 
Honest Farmer— “These her agrictult’ral papers 
don’t know no nothing. Anybody might see they 
was edited by city chaps.” Mrs. Honest Farmer— 
“What are they saying now?” “Why this paper 
says that on wet days, when a farmer can’t work in 
the field, he ought to mend the tools, oil the harness 
and pick out the decayed fruit and vegetables in the 
cellar.” “Well, it seems tome that’s purty sensi¬ 
ble.” “Sensible! Why, what on arth is the use of 
picking out the decayed fruit and vegetables when 
it’s so wet that you can’t take ’em to market?”— 
Philadelphia Call. 
THREE REMARKABLE CASES. 
INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM AND HEART 
DISEASE. 
In January last a gentleman in Lynchburg, Va. 
ordered a Treatment of Compound Oxygen for his 
daughter, thirteen years of age, who had been sub¬ 
ject to attacks of inflammatory rheumatism since 
her fourth year. 
Five weeks after commencing the use of our Treat¬ 
ment, we received the following highly gratifying 
report: 
“ Lynchburg, Va., February 28, 1884. 
“ Drs. Starkey & Palen .—Dear Sirs:— My daugh 
ter has been using your Compound Oxygen for five 
weeks. 
“ Within a week from beginning the use of the 
Oxygen, she began to show signs of improvement; 
since then her recovery has been remarkable. I have 
never seen anything to equal it. The action of the 
heart is quiet and soft; there has been no sign of 
rheumatism; she sleeps sweetly all night; has a fine 
appetite: has gained many pounds of flesh, and has 
considerable color; can walk all about the house, and 
has paid two or three visits in the neighborhood. 
“If the statement of the above facts in my daugh¬ 
ter’s case will be the means of inducing others simi¬ 
larly affected, as she has been, to use your Com¬ 
pound Oxygen, you are a tliberty to publish it. 
“ Very respectfully, 
“C. V. Winfree.” 
“FEEL AS YOUNG AS I DID AT TWENTY- 
FIVE.” 
What Compound Oxygen did in a few months for 
one who had suffered with dyspepsia for forty years, 
who was troubled with catarrh, torpid fever, and 
suffered from hard shaking chills, will be seen in the 
following report. In February, 1883, a gentleman, 
who had removed to Florida in the previous fall, 
asked our opinion of his case, and soon after ordered 
a Home Treatment. His statement of his condition 
we give in his own words: 
“ Have had dyspepsia for forty years. Came to 
Florida last November. Previously suffered much 
from headache. A month after coming here it 
stopped aching so badly, but became very sore and 
has continued so up to the present time. Have a 
hacking cough, and hard, shaking chills. Am very 
weak. Liver torpid." 
About eleven months after the above was written, 
we received the subjoined gratifying letter: 
“Lake City, Florida, March 31, 1884. 
“ Drs. Starkey & Palen— Gentlemen : — It has been, 
I believe, about eleven months since I quit taking the 
Oxygen, and I am truly thankful to say that the dis¬ 
ease has not returned. 
“I am under many obligations to you for your 
kindness to me last year, and if cataarh should 
return I guess you will hear from me in short order. 
And right here let me say that I am one of the jolliest 
old men you have seen lately. My digestion is first- 
rate. lean do more work and am in better health 
generally than I have been for twenty-five years. I 
[feel as young as I did at twenty-five, and, in fact, I 
believe that I can do more work than I could then. 
“ You are at liberty to publish an extract from this 
letter, or all of it, if you think you can do any good 
by it, and if anybody wants to hear from me I will 
answer all letters that contain stamps for postage. 
“I am truly yours, 
Martin Hancock. 
“MANY THANKS FOR SAVING MY LIFE.” 
In April, 1883, we received a letter from a clergy¬ 
man in Lockesburg. Ark., who had used and been 
much benefitted by Compound Oxygen, ordering a 
Home Treatment for a gentleman residing in that 
place. The Treatment was sent, but we heard noth¬ 
ing from it for nearly a year, when the following 
letter came from the patient himself: 
“Lockesburg, Sevier Co., Ark., I 
“ March 15th. 1884. f 
“ Messrs. Starkey & Palen:— You will remember 
me as one of your patients. Nearly a year ago, I 
sent for a two months’ supply of your Compound 
Oxygen treatment, and it is with heartfelt gratitude 
I send you my many thanks for saving my life. 
“ To tell you my condition when I commenced using 
your treatment is impossible. I was taken with bil¬ 
ious pneumonia. I lay for two months unable to get 
off my bed, and part of the time to move my body. 
It was a month after I sat up in bed before I could 
walk alone. 
“ My pneumonia had assumed a chronic form, and 
I was just giving up in despair, when Rev. Mr. D- 
came to me and prevailed on me to send for the 
Oxygen Treatment. I never will get done thanking 
him for recommending and you for discovering such 
a medical agent. Yours truly, W. M. P.-.” 
A Treatise on Compound Oxygen is sent free of 
charge. It contains a history of the discovery, na¬ 
ture and action of this new remedy, and a record of 
many of the remarkable results which have so far 
attended its use. Address, Drs. Starkey & Palen, 
1100 and 1111 Girard St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
THE BEATTY ORGAN AND PIANO CO. 
A WONDERFUL BUSINESS REJUVENATED AND ESTABLISHED. 
{From Frank Leslie's Illustrated, Newspaper.) 
The name of Daniel F. Beatty, of Washington, 
New Jersey, is tolerably well known to the majority 
of the people of the United States in connection 
with the manafacture and sale of musical instru¬ 
ments. By liberal and wide-spread advertising, and 
by dealing direct with the purchaser, he built up a 
most extensive business in organs and pianos. It 
was his ambition to erect and own the largest organ 
factory in the world, and he succeeded in so doing. 
But the hindrances and losses incident to a disas¬ 
trous fire in 1881, and the want of adequate capital, 
combined with a lack of business method, led to a 
serious entanglement in his affairs. Although he 
made and sold over seventeen thousand (17,000) 
organs last year, his embarrassments, which dated 
their origin years before, became so serious that he 
finally sold his business to a corporation composed 
of his creditors. It is understood that this com¬ 
pany, with ample capital, has undertaken to make 
good as far as possible all the obligations of Mr. 
Beatty, giving preferance to the purchasers of 
organs.and pianos whose goods are still undelivered, 
and to whom it is shipping daily their instruments. 
The company is under the presidency of Mr. I. W. 
England, of New York, his manager being Mr. W. P. 
Had wen: and the gentlemen composing the directors 
and stockholders are among the best known [and 
most responsible business men in the country. All 
new orders,we are assured, are filled on receipt with 
instruments of the best quality; while arrearages 
are being manufactured and shipped at the rate of 
not less than 100 a week. On such a basis, supply¬ 
ing a superior article at a moderate price, free of 
agents’ commissiens, the new concern ought to 
achieve a great success. 
Are you going to Boston or to any other New Eng¬ 
land point ? If so, please bear in mind that the 
Stonington Line are now running their steamers via 
the inside route. So passengers can leave New York 
at 5 p.m., from Pier 33, N. R., any day (except Sun¬ 
day) enjoy a cool sail on Long Island Sound, and by 
taking the first train at Stonington, arrive in Boston 
6 a m., ahead of any other line, or can remain on 
steamer to breakfast until 7.10 a.m., and be in Boston 
at an early hour. From Boston, Steamboat Express 
Train leaves Boston and Providence R. R. Station at 
6.30 p.m. daily (except Sundays) 
JCcus Qx\ emtrf. 
Opening December 1,1884; Closing May 31,1885. 
— UNDEK THE AUSPICES OF THE — 
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Appropriated by the General Government. 
$ 500 , 000 , 
Contributed bv the Citizens of New Orleans. 
$ 200 , 000 , 
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$ 100 , 000 , 
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$ 100 , 000 , 
Appropriated by the City o£ New Orleans. 
From $5000 to $25,000, 
Appropriated by Innumerable States, Cities 
• and Foreign Countries. 
Every State and Territory in the Union represented, 
and nearly all the Leading Nations and 
Countries of the World. 
The Biggest Exhibit, the Biggest Building and the 
Biggest Industrial Event in the 
World’s History. 
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OF SUBJECTS THAN THOSE OF ANY 
EXPOSITION EVER HELD. 
The cheapest rates of travel ever known in 
the annals of transportation secured for the 
people everywhere. 
For information, address 
E. A. BURKE, 
Director General, W. I. & C. C. E., 
New Orleans, La. 
