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THE LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET. 
NEWSPAPER WAIFS. 
-“ I wish I was an owl,” said the young law¬ 
yer, as he gently felt the dimensions of her alligator 
belt. “Why?” she asked. “Because 1 could stay 
up all night, you know, dear,’’ he replied. “What 
would you want to do such a ridiculous thing as that 
for ?” she tittered. “To wit; to woo.’’ 
- Among the children recently presented for 
baptism at a church in Toledo, Ohio, was a bright 
little two-year-old girl. She was restless throughout, 
requiring careful management to keep her even 
moderately quiet. The ceremony having been com¬ 
pleted by her venerable grandfather, Rev. Dr.-, 
she placed both hands upon her head, and finding 
her hah - saturated with water, exclaimed, in dismay, 
“ oh, my bangs 1 ” 
LATE ADVANCES IN SCIENCE. 
In a telegraph office in Pittsburgh ten years ago, 
one of the most intelligent and skillful of American 
electricians was the centre of a group of astonished 
spectators at an experiment iu the advance in the 
use of the electric current. Pour different messages, 
coming simultaneously over one wire, were recorded 
on four separate slips of paper. All looked to him 
for an expression of the result of the experiment, 
lie took up the printed messages, and after reading 
them aloud, one after another, he said: “1 thought 
I knew something of electricity ; but, in view of this 
wonderful feat, I must now declare that I know sim¬ 
ply nothing.” He appreciated the fact that what 
ne had previously learned was as nothing to what 
was helore him and wnat was yet to ne learned. 
Such scientific men are not hasty to condemn the 
statements of other inquirers into the powers of the 
elements iu nature. 
in the wonderful developments of these ten years, 
the perfecting of the telephone and the electric light 
have shown me wisdom in the electrician’s utterance. 
The storage and transporting in reservoirs of elec¬ 
tricity as a power for use at a distance from the 
point of production is another advance not yet fully 
developed ; but partial success has been attained. 
Tnougntlul men nave been led, in view of the experi¬ 
ments in this direction, to ask if it might not prove 
to be possible yet to store and transput t any other 
element as well. One of these lines of experiment 
has been carefully followed to accomplish the stor¬ 
age and transportation of oxygen as an appliance 
in the healing art. 
ineii of scientific acquirements have long been con¬ 
vinced that it would be valuable, and a thousand ex¬ 
periments have been entered upon with this object 
in view. Some of these have approached very near 
success, and some of the stories told of them have 
been as interesting as tnose of the old alchemists. 
People have been, for a long time, reading these 
stories of experiments and wondering if one of these 
days they shouiu not find this problem solved, and 
now the question arises whether, in view of the evi¬ 
dence in the pages of a little paper published in 
Philadelphia once in three months, witn the title of 
Health ana i-t/e, success has not already been 
achieved. If these statements are reliable, then 
oxygen ^compounded witn other elements; is being 
stoied, is capable of transportation, unci it heals.' 
Just as Delaney was the other day awarded the gold 
medal for pre-eminence iu liis incomparable instru¬ 
ment for duplex telegraphing, so to Drs. Starkey A 
Palen, of Philadelphia, is bemg awarded the verdict 
of pre-eminent success in this great discovery and 
the utilizing it in the cures of various forms of 
disease. 
From patients cured by the use of this Compound 
Oxygen, stored in portable reservoirs and trans¬ 
ported by express to their homes, we have evidence 
of cures of various diseases, among which are 
asthma, catarrh, bronchitis, consumption, dyspep¬ 
sia, hay fever, sick headache, and the ailments un¬ 
der tlie general title of nervous prostration and 
debility. The effect of the inhalation of the oxygen 
is to gradually build up and invigorate the system, 
enabling it to eliminate disease and tuen resist 
further attacks. 
The little paper above mentioned is published once 
in three months, and in the last number, dated April, 
1685, are printed letters from Alabama, Australia, 
Canada, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia. Illinois, 
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, iiiaine, Mary¬ 
land, Mississippi, Michigan, Missouri, Mew York-, 
New Jersey. Unio, Pennsylvania, south Carolina, 
Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin. 
Among the writers of the letters in these papers 
of various dates we find the names of authors, edi¬ 
tors, judges, physicians, clergymen ; lecturers like 
Mrs. Divermore and nidward L. Wilson; business 
men like C. C. Cady, of Cady’s Commercial College 
in New York ; Mr. Alonzo Clark, head salesman of a 
large business house also in New York • Mr. Arthur 
Hagaii, Mr. George W. Edwards, Mr. W. H. Whiteley, 
and Mr. Frank Siddall, of Philadelphia, and Hon, 
William D. Kelley, who for twenty-four years has 
represented a Philadelphia district in Congress. 
These are such witnesses as would be gladly wel¬ 
comed in establishing the truth of any cause. Some 
of the expressions used are very striking. 
In addition to Health and Life, Drs. Starkey & 
Palen, whose address is Nos. 1109 and 1111 Girard 
street, Philadelphia, publish in pamphlet the de¬ 
tailed statements made by Hon. Win D. Kelley, for 
twenty four years a member of Congress from Phila¬ 
delphia ; Judge Jos. R. Flanders, of New York City, 
for many years the law partner of Hon. Wm. A. 
Wheeler, formerly Vice-President of the United 
States ; the late T. S. Arthur (who never wearied of 
declaring that Compound Oxygen prolonged his life 
after 1870); Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, of Melrose, 
Mass., the popular and widely-known lecturer; 
Ohas. W. Cushing, D.D.. pastor of the First Metho¬ 
dist Episcopal Church, Rochester. N. Y. These they 
mail free to any address on application. All are in¬ 
teresting reading. 
-The Transcript asks: “Will somebody 
please tell what is the nitrate of soda?” Usually 
about 50 per cent in excess of the day rate. All de. 
pends upon the druggist you patronize.— Roxbury 
Advocate. 
-“ Clara Belle ” wants to know what a young 
man won’t do when he’s in love. Well, he won’t eat 
onions ; he won’t give his attention to his business ; 
he won’t wear a poorly laundered shirt; he won’t go 
to see his girl until he has oiled his hair and scented 
his pocket-handkerchief ; he won’t leave his girl at 
night until he hears the step of her exasperated 
father on the stairs ; he won’t believe his girl is any¬ 
thing but an angel, for he never saw her hanging out 
the washing with six clothes-pins in her mouth atone 
time ; he wont take no for an answer when he is part¬ 
ing with her on the stoop and asks for “just one 
he won’t—but what’s the use of going further ? 
Give us a harder one, Clara ?—Boston Courier. 
