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THE LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET. 
NEWSPAPER WAIFS. 
-“ Waiter, can you bring me a nice young 
chicken smothered in onions?” “No, sak.. We 
doesn’t kill ’em dat way, sah. We cuts off der 
heads .”—Chicago News. 
-“ What to do with wealth after one’s got it, 
is a serious question,” says the Brooklyn Eagle. 
This may be, but the question which strikes us far 
more serious, is what to do without wealth when 
one has not got it .—Boston Post. 
THE AWARD. 
Last month’s Floral Cabinet gave the names of 
“ The Right Sort of a Jury” on the great question, 
“ What is Compound Oxygen good for ?” We now 
give a brief extract from each one’s statement: 
Judge Kelly, in a letter to Drs. Starkey & Palen. 
says : “ Gratitude to you and duty to those who may 
be suffering as I was from chronic catarrh and 
almost daily effusion of blood, in greater or less 
quantities, but always sufficient to keep one remind¬ 
ed of his mortality, impel me to say to you and to 
au horize you to give any degree of publicity to my 
assertion, that the use of your gas, at intervals, has 
so far restored my health that I am not conscious of 
having discharged any blood for more than a year ; 
and that my cough, the severity of which made me a 
frequent object of sympathy, has disappeared. 
“ Thanking you for renewed health, strength, and 
the hope of years of comfortable life, I remain your 
grateful friend.” 
hev. Victor L. Conrad, office editor of the 
Lutheran Observer, says : “ Recovery was a simple 
and pleasant process. My restoration to health took 
place several years ago and has been permanent. 
“ A case even more wonderful than my own is that 
•of my brother, Rev. F. M. Conrad, who for several 
months was entirely laid aside. He is now busy 
among the churches, as well as attending to his 
■duties as editor-in-chief of the Observer .’’ 
Rev. Chas. W. Cushing, D.D., editor of the 
American Reformer, New York city, writes : 
“ For fifteen years I found myself gradually losing 
the power of endurance : my whole nervous system 
was giving way ; my mind was losing its grip. Sleep 
was insufficient and unrefreshing. 
“Under these circumstances, four years since I 
began using Compound Oxygen. Restful sleep fol¬ 
lowed. At the end of three months I was entirely re¬ 
covered. My mind has never worked better than 
during these four years, and in no other time of my 
life could I do as much work, or do it with as much 
ease.” 
Hon. Wm. Penn Nixon, editor of the Chicago 
Inter-Ocean, writes : 
“I have never given a testimonial to any patent 
medicine, and I would not; but I do not consider 
Starkey & Palen’s Compound Oxygen a patent medi¬ 
cine. It is a vitalizer and a restorer, and to it I owe 
my life. In my family we set a high value on its 
efficacy in cases of need, and several of my friends 
have found the advantage of it. You may put me 
on record as being a hearty and thorough believer in 
it.” 
Judge Flanders, of New York, says : 
“ For many years I suffered from weak diges¬ 
tion and dyspepsia. In 1879 I was all run down in 
strength and spirits. I commenced taking Compound 
Oxygen. In a month I improved so greatly that I 
was able to come to my office and do some legal 
work, and I grew stronger, taking Compound Oxy¬ 
gen all the time, until to my astonishment and that 
of my friends, I was as fit as ever for hard work.” 
Mrs. M. Cator. the widow of an eminent physician, 
the late Dr. Harver Cator, of Camden, N. J., says : 
“ Compound Oxygen had an immediate effect on me 
the first time. My lungs were seriously impaired 
and my body was greatly emaciated. In three or 
four months I was a new woman. Now I have a 
good appetite and I sleep well.” 
Mrs. Mary A. Doughty, of Jamaica, L. I., says : 
“ Some twenty years ago I became a victim of the 
most intense nervousness and sleeplessness. I wasted 
away and was hopeless and helpless. 
“ Compound Oxygen drove away my sleeplessness. 
I am in good spirits and free from pain ; eat moder¬ 
ately, with fair appetite, and am not restricted in 
diet. Dyspepsia is gone. Under the blessing of 
God, Compound Oxygen raised me from the edge of 
the grave and opened to me a new life.” 
Mis. Mary A. Livermore, the celebrated lec¬ 
turer, says of her experience : 
“Four years ago this spring, at the end of a very 
severe and exhaustive winter’s work, I found myself 
utterly broken down in health. My physician re¬ 
commended a trip to Europe. While in England 
some American acquaintances told us of the Com¬ 
pound Oxygen, and were enthusiastic in its praises. 
“My husband immediately ordered a Home Treat 
ment. I used it for a month, punctiliously obeying 
the directions, before I began to rally. Then my re¬ 
turn to good health was rapid, and since then I have 
enjoyed almost uninterrupted perfect health and 
youthful vigor.” 
Judge K. S. Voorhes, whose office is at No. 55 
Broadway, N. Y., writes : 
“ I have just ended my sixty-second year. From 
infancy until I arrived at maturity, I was subject to 
catarrh in the head, which, complicated with other 
ailments, resulted in final deafness in my left ear. 
Finally the right ear became so much impaired in 
hearing that I was obliged to abandon my profes¬ 
sion, the law. It is now almost a year since I began 
the use of the Oxygen Treatment, under the advice 
of an aurist. Compound Oxygen at once began to 
build me up in a way that was surprising and most 
gratifying. My strength increased daily, the buoy¬ 
ancy of my spirits was enhanced and my intellectual 
faculties brightened. Compound Oxygen, though 
slow, was wonderfully sure. Tne diseases in my 
system have finally yielded to the more powerful 
agent of Oxygen. It has broken up the destructive 
elements in my system and forced them out.” 
Mr. George W. Edwards, a well known mer¬ 
chant and owner of St. George’s Hotel, Philadelphia, 
says: 
“I had Bright’s disease. For three years I was 
so prostrated as to be unable to attend to business. 
I was utterly exhausted. Nearly all the while I suf¬ 
fered with severe neuralgic pain in my head and 
rheumatic pains in my joints. My digestion was 
miserable. I tried Compound Oxygen. 
“ Now I am able to attend to my business regularly 
and cheerfully. I live in the country and come to 
town every day. I sleep soundly ; take a good deal 
of active exercise ; eat everything I want, and my 
digestion is good.” 
Frank Siddall, of Philadelphia, whose name 
because of his enterprise, is a household word every¬ 
where, writes: 
“ I and my wife and son, also Mr. Johnson, a clerk 
in our employ,;all owe our present good health to 
Compound Oxygen. I consider that in its discovery 
there has been given to the world something as valu¬ 
able and as notable as Jennergave it in the discovery 
of vaccination, i never lose an opportunity to speak 
a word in its favor.” 
W. H. Whiteley, Esq., a well-known silk manu¬ 
facturer, of Philadelphia, considered himself one of 
the incurables, yet he now says : 
“ Compound Oxygen had triumphed over one of 
the worst cases of sciatica and nerve prostration 
that the doctors had ever known 1 now enjoy ex¬ 
cellent health—really enjoy it, for you can imagine 
what a joy it is to be well again after my long years 
of suffering.” 
Any one who cares to read the full statement of 
this “Right Sort of a Jury,” may have it mailed 
S romptly, free of cost, on application by letter to 
irs. Starkey & Palen, No. 1529 Arch Street, Phila¬ 
delphia. 
-An English traveler in looking over some 
American town names, came across the well-known 
ones of “Pawtucket,” “Shetucket,” and “Nan¬ 
tucket.” “Haw! haw 1 ” he exclaimed, “ I’m blessed 
if the whole family didn’t take it I”— Pittsburgh 
Chronicle-Telegraph. 
-“ You must be having a hard time of it nowa¬ 
days,” remarked a traveler at a railroad station 
lunch-counter, to the proprietor of the establish¬ 
ment. “Why do you think so?” was the query. 
“ Well, I noticed when I bit into this sandwich that 
you do not make both ends meat.”—27ie Rambler. 
The Largest Cabbage Growers in the World 
(W. M. Johnson & Co., of Chicago), use upwards of 
five thousand acres of land for growing cabbages. 
Last season they manufactured nineteen thousand 
six hundred barrels of sourkrout, besides shipping 
four hundred and sixty-seven carloads of cabbages 
to eastern cities. They use and recommend Tilling- 
hast’s Puget Sound Cabbage Seeds. The dissemi¬ 
nator of this renowned brand of seeds, Isaac F. 
Tillinghast, of La Plume, Pa., in order to introduce 
them into every county in the Union, has organized 
a Seed and Plant Grower’s Association. One reliable 
party in each town in the Union is being enrolled as 
special agent, and is supplied with seeds in trade- 
marked packages, and also instruction books which 
will enable any one to grow cabbage plants success¬ 
fully anywhere. Parties desiring seeds or plants, 
will, upon application to Mr. Tillinghast, be furnish¬ 
ed with the addresses of agents nearest them from 
whom they may be obtained. Purchasers are thus 
saved unnecessary express charges and assured of 
obtaining the best strain of cabbage seeds or plants 
which can be procured. 
This association thus furnishes one man in each 
town—the appointed agent—a good cash paying 
business in selling seeds and growing and supplying 
plants. There are still many excellent localities un¬ 
occupied, and any one so situated as to act as agent 
for this association should address Mr. Tillinghast as 
above, for particulars in regard to it. 
Mr. Tillinghast has also just put upon the market 
a “ Cabbage Pest Powder,” which is entirely harm¬ 
less to the plant at any stage of its growth, and also 
harmless to persons eating them, yet the most effec¬ 
tive destroyer of lice, fleas and worms which has 
ever been compounded. It retails at 24 cents per 
pound. _ 
-She (coaxingly—she has been trying to get a 
little check)—“ You know, dear, when we were mar¬ 
ried you promised to endow me with all your worldly 
goods.” 
He (grumpily)—“Yes, but I had no worldly goods 
then—excepting brains, and heaven knows I didn't 
endow you with them ! ”— New York Graphic. 
-The other night, after the thunder shower, 
Jones dropped in on a neighbor and found about a 
dozen people assembled. 
“Well, well, you look cheerful after such a close 
call,” growled Jones, as he removed his hat. 
“ What close call ? ” 
“ Why, lightning struck the barn in the alley not 
a hundred feet away.” 
“ Oh, dear 1 ” said one of the women, “ but I knew 
it all the time. One of my arms has been numb 
ever since.” 
“And it affected my foot,” said another. 
“ And it set my heart to palpitating.” 
“ And my elbow has felt queer ever since.” 
Everyone in the room remembered to have been 
shocked, and everyone was thankful over the nar¬ 
row escape. 
By and by a boy, who had been thinking deeply, 
gushed out: 
“ Why. there is no barn in the alley 1 ” 
Amid the deepest silence everybody remembered 
this fact, and the boy clinched it with : 
“ And how could there be when there is no alley 1 ” 
