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THE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET. 
NEWSPAPER WAIFS. 
An Englishman and a Scotchman had a dispute a s 
to which of their respective countries had produced 
the most eminent men. Every name of note was 
claimed by the Scotchman as that of a man born 
north of the Tweed, till finally the Englishman 
said: ! 
“ Surely, you won’t claim Shakespeare as a Scotch¬ 
man ?” 
“No,” replied the canny Scotchman, “ I’ll no’ say 
Shakespeare was a Scotchman, but ye’ll maybe ad¬ 
mit he was maist clever eneuch to be ane.” 
“No,” said little Johnny, “I don’t use my bicycle 
any more. I’d just as lief do my walking on the 
ground.”—S an Franc'sco Post. 
“ What is that drab object hanging from the lower 
limb of that apple tree ?” asked a dude of a freckled 
country boy. 
“That,” said the boy, “ is a sort of foot-ball that 
we strike to make our ‘muckle ’ big.” 
“ May I try it ?” asked the dude. 
“I guess so,” replied the boy, as he moved off a 
good distance. 
So the dude drew back and drove his fist right into 
an old fashioned hornets’ nest, and got his sleeves 
chock full.— Judge. 
A sensible shoemaker will never offend his milk' 
man by presenting him with a pair of pumps.— New 
York Journal. 
“ Land sakes, what lies they do print in the papers 
every day,” remarked an old lady from down East, 
as she looked up over her paper. “ Beats all what 
whoppers they do tell. Maybe they spect sensible 
people do read and believe all their falsehoods.” 
“What is it now, mother ?” inquired the old lady’s 
son. 
“ Why, see here, Wendell, this paper says in Cuba 
where there was trouble with the hands in a sugar 
bush, the sap house was guarded by muskeeters- 
The idea of muskeeters guardin’ a sap house. An’ 
that ain’t the worst on’t. Here it goes on to say they 
were fine, strapping fellows, each full six feet high. 
There wa’n’t no muskeeter ever lived six feet high ? 
an’ I know it. Down to our house in Vermont we 
have got muskeeters as big as anybody’s, an’ I never 
saw one over three inches long in all my life. Six 
feet ! I don’t see why editors want to lie so; do you, 
Wendell ?” 
“ But look, mother, it doesn’t say guarded by 
‘muskeeters,’ but by ‘musketeers.’ Don’t you see 
the difference now ?” 
“ Yes, there’s a difference, I admit, but these 
printers always have some way to crawl out of their 
lies. I wonder they don’t blame it on the poor com¬ 
positor.” _ 
LINE UPON LINE, PRECEPT 
UPON PRECEPT. 
We repeat some of 1 he practical suggestions which 
we have given from time to time and in other places, 
in order to impress them more strongly upon the 
minds of those who are using Compound Oxygen. 
Unless patients do their part in the work of cure our 
efforts can only be partially successful, and may fail 
altogether. 
Wasting the New-found Strength,—We cannot 
too often nor too strongly urge upon our patients the 
duty of husbanding carefully the new strength and 
feeling of life and, vigor that usually come as the 
first effect of inhaling Compound Oxygen. The cessa¬ 
tion of pain, the removal of distressing conditions, 
and the comfort and sense of vitality that are felt, 
too frequently awaken a false confidence and lead to 
both mental and physical effects that quickly ex¬ 
haust the system and cause it to lose what has been 
gained. 
A few inhalations of Compound Oxygen may 
quicken the vital forces and give nature the power to 
hold disease in check, but they will not restore to \ 
brain and nerve and muscle the strength which has 
been wasting for years. This can come only through 
healthy nutrition and the slowgrrocess of re-creating 
and re-building. Gradually, as disease encroached, 
the system lost its tone. The downward course may 
have been through years. The return of health must 
be along the way of descent. It may be more rapid 
than was the descent; but this 4vill dep nd on the 
care with which every step is taken. If there is an 
attempt to cany burdens of business or professional 
or household duties heavier than the newly-gained 
strength will endure, a breakdown or setback is in¬ 
evitable. Any one can see this. 
It is against such an over-use of strength at first 
received that we desire most earnestly to warn our 
patients. There are few so run down and exhausted 
by disease that we cannot, through the agency of 
Compound Oxygen, bring them back to a new life 
and to comparative good health. But to enable us to 
do this, at much depends on the co-operation of 
patients as on the action of our remedy. 
Keep it in the House.—The value of Compound 
Oxygen, as something to be always kept on hand and 
for reliance in sudden attacks of illness, is becoming 
more and more widely known. Many cases are being 
reported to us in which a Treatment that has been 
only partly used, and which had remained in the 
house untouched for month . has been resorted to in 
case of cold where serious consequences were threat¬ 
ened, and with the happiest results. Seeing its value 
in cases like these, people are beginning to keep it on 
hand and ready for use. This is common sense and 
common prudence. If kept properly closed and in 
a cool place, the Treatment will suffer no deterio¬ 
ration, and its prompt use. will, in most cases, ward 
off a threatened attack of illness, especially those 
which come from colds, from nervous and physical 
exhaustion, or from exposure to malarial influences. 
A Treatment kept on hand and promptly resorted to 
in time of need will do more to prevent sickness in a 
family than any other known agency, and save often 
five to ten times its cost in doctor’s bills, to say noth¬ 
ing of the suffering and loss too often entaded by 
serious illness. The old and trite adage, “Prevent on 
is better than cure,” cannot be kept too much in 
mind. 
How Does Compound Oxygen Cure?—We 
answer, in two important ways: First, by a rapid 
purification of the blood, in consequence of a larger 
supplv of oxygen to the lungs, and Second, by re- 
vit lizing all the nerve-centers, the Compound in¬ 
haled having in its manufacture become magnetized, 
which gives it the quality known to chemists as ozone. 
A new and healthy action is at once set up in the 
diseased system, and general improvement follows 
as surely as effect follows cause. 
Its Universal Action — When this is understood 
it can readily be seen that the particular disease for 
which Compound Oxygen has been inhaled will not 
always be the first to yield to its subtle influence. 
But with scarcely any exception, a new vitality will 
be given to all the life-forces, and a general and often 
very marked improvement in the health appear from 
the very beginning. The cough from which relief 
was sought may continue, though with diminishing 
severity, but the headache, catarrh, rheumatism, 
neuralgia, general debility, or loss of appetite with 
which the pitient has long been a sufferer will be 
partially or entirely removed after a few weeks’ 
use of the Oxygen Treatment. The same thing will 
often occur where theTr:atmentis used for the cure 
of catarrh, neuralgia, etc. There will be a steady 
improvement in the general health, and many 
troublesome ailments will disappear, while the ca¬ 
tarrh or neuralgia opposes a stubborn resistance to 
the new force that assails it. But every reflecting 
patient must see that he has received a most substan¬ 
tial benefit, and that in the higher degree of health 
to which he is rising lies the hope of a final victory 
over the disease which has obtained so tenacious a 
hold upon his system. 
Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen containing a 
history of the discovery of °nd mode of action of this 
remarkable curative agent, and a large record of 
surprising cures in Consumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, 
Bronchitis, Asthma, etc., and a wide range of chronic 
diseases will be sent free. Drs. Starkey & Palen, 
1109 and 1111 Girard St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
According to Edwin Alden & Bro.’s (Cincinnati, 
O.,) American Newspaper Catalogue for 1883, there 
are 14, s 67 newspapers and magazines published in the 
United States and the British Provinces. Total in 
the United States. 14,176; in the British Provinces, 
691; divided as follows: Dailies, 1,357; Tri-weeklies, 
71; Semi-weeklies, 168; Sundays, 235; Weeklies, 10,- 
975: Bi-weeklies, 39; Monthlies, 1,502; Bi-monthlies, 
26; Quarterlies. 83; showing an increase over the 
publications of 1883 of 1,594. The greatest increase 
has been among the Weekly Newspapers of a 
political character (?) while it has been least among 
the class publications. The book is very hand¬ 
somely gotten up and contains some 850 pages, 
printed on heavy book paper, elegantly bound in 
cloth. It will be sent to any address, prepaid, on 
receipt of $1.50 
Are you going to Boston or to any other New Eng¬ 
land point ? If so, please boar 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 LoDg Island Sound, and by 
taking the first train at Stonington, arrive in Boston 
6 a.m., ah-ad of any other line, or can remain on 
steamer to breakfast until 7.10 a.m., and be in Boston 
at an early horn-. From Boston, Steamboat Express 
Train leaves Boston and Providence R. R. Station at 
6.30 p.m. daily (except Sundays). 
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