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TIIE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET. 
Literary Notes. 
Miss Leighton's Perplexities . By Alice C. Hall 
(New York, Fords, Howard & Hurlburt), is a very 
readable romance. Though not full of thrilling sensa¬ 
tions, the story is told so pleasantly that it cannot fail 
to interest its readers. 
We have also received from the same publishers 
Under Green Apple Boughs ; now given in book form, 
after appearing as a serial in Our Continent, and is 
written by Helen Campbell, who very ably edits the 
Household Department of that magazine. It appears 
as the first issue of Our Continent Library, and as a 
work of fiction the book is a strong one. Its charac¬ 
teristics are unusually well drawn, and although the 
working out of the story may not be pleasing to every 
one, yet there is in each chapter a certain vigor of 
expression that commands respect. 
farm, everything pertinent to the farm and garden, 
seeds, bulbs, plants, machinery, implements and 
tools, are all tested in a legitimate, commou-senso 
manner, and tho results, whatever they may be, are 
given for tho benefit of its readers; a work of the 
greatest importance to the horticulturalists of this 
country. This journal and the Rural New Yorker, 
with its free seed distribution, one year for §2.75. 
To avoid delay, all orders should bo sent directly 
to the Rural New Yorker, 31 Turk Row, New York. 
seventy-four years), he u ever enjoyed a better cfa 
of good feelings. Sleeps as calmly as an infant frcr 
ten o’clock p. m. until fivo o’clock a. m. every night-*" 
The letter from which tho above extract was znj%- 
was written in January last. Nearly three month 
later this physician writes: 
A Religious Newspaper,— Wo desire to call the 
attention of our readers to one of the largest, ablest, 
and most popular religious newspapers published— 
oue that secures the best writers in this country and 
Europe, regardless of expense. We refer to Tins 
Independent, of New York. See advertisement, in 
auother column, and send a postal canl for free 
specimen copy. 
Marion Harland, so well known by her helpful and 
entertaining writings, has recently written a book 
entitled, Eve's Daughters: or Common-sense for 
Maid , ir»/e and Mother (New York; John R. Ander¬ 
son and Henry S. Allen), which is designed to en¬ 
lighten woman to her needs, capabilities and possi¬ 
bilities. In the form of familiar talks, yet with true ; 
modesty, she describes the distinctive characteristics 
of woman and their relation to her physical, mental 
and moral nature, and gives practical information re¬ 
garding household matter's, food, clothing, and care 
of children. 
A BLESSING TO THE AGED. 
“ A recent letter from my brother informs mo tfc- 
he has increased in weight since last October, free 
100 to 1 10 pounds That at the age of seventy-four I 
feels as he did when only forty years of age. Has 
first-rato appetite. Can oat and digest any kind « 
food that is lit to cat. Bowels regular, and slee 
sweet and refreshing, and no cough to amount to ac 
thing.’’ 
Our “Treatise on Compound Oxygen" and a pan 
phlet containing over fifty Unsolicited Testimonic. 
to its wonderful curative power from persons wt 
have used it, will lie sent free. Also Health ar 
Life," our Quarterly Record of Cases and Cure- 
under the Compound Oxygen Treatment, in which i 
bo found, as reported by patients themselves, nr. 
open for verification , more remarkable results in 
single perioil of three months than all the medicr 
journals of the United States can show in a year Ac 
dress, Drs. Starkey & Palen, Nos. 1109 and 111 
Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
One of the most attractive holiday books we have 
seen for little people is the bound volume of Our 
Little Ones, and would be especially appreciated by 
those who have not enjoyed the monthly visits of this 
delightful little magazine. Every page is rendered 
attractive to children’ eyes by the beautiful illustra¬ 
tions that embellish them, while the stories are told 
in just the way the “ little ones ” best enjoy, not so 
long as to be tiresome, and yet spirited enough to 
keep the attention of the most restless child. 
The opening article in Harper's Magazine for 
January is the first of a series of papers by Geo. H. 
Boughton, entitled, "Artists’ Strolls in Holland,” and 
is illustrated with drawings by the author and E. A. 
Abbey. Other articles of interest are “Living 
Lamps,” with illustrations of phosphorescent phe¬ 
nomena; “A Redwood Logging Camp,” and “Old 
English Seamen.” Beside the serials there are 
several short stories, one of which is contributed by 
J. T. Trowbridge called “ Widow Brown’s Christmas,” 
a New England story told in verse and is one of the 
best things we have seen from his pen. 
In the January Century we realize something of 
what was promised for the new year. Edward 
Eggleston has a second paper of his series of “ Life in 
the Thirteen Colonics,” which gives in his narrative 
style the “Planting of New England ” a fresh inter¬ 
est. The papers begun in the November number on 
the “Christian League in Connecticut” show what 
can be accomplished by practical co-operation in 
Christian work. There is also in this number an 
interesting article on Darwin, whose portrait is given 
as frontispiece; and among lighter topics, “The 
Rudder Grangers Abroad ” will be greeted with en¬ 
thusiasm by the many who have enjoyed the droll 
adventures of this family in the past. 
We are pleased to announce an arrangement with 
the Rural New Yorker , as will be seen by our adver¬ 
tising columns, for clubbing that paper with the 
Floral Cabinet, an arrangement beneficial to tho 
readers of both papers. Although laboring in the 
same field, they by no means conflict. The Rural 
New Yorker we consider one of tho best Agricultural 
and Horticultural papers in this country. It is 
copious, explicit, and freely illustrated. Mr. Carman 
Is an enthusiast in his profession, and at tho same 
time thoroughly practical. On his experimental 
Very few persons, on reaching threescore, find 
themselves in good health. From various causes the 
constitution, which may have beeu vigorous in early 
life, has become brokeu, the nervous energy depress¬ 
ed, and organic disease of some kind added too often 
to the catalogue of ailments which burden and dis¬ 
tress the waniug years of life. In eases of this kind 
the medical profession can do little, if anything. 
The administration of drugs only makes matters 
worse, and tonics, health-cures, sanitariums and the 
like, give at best only temporary respite from de¬ 
pressing weakness or suffering. As the years go on, 
health steadily declines, and the days become more i 
and more shadowed. It has become sadly true that 
a vigorous old age is the exception, and not the rule. 1 
The cause lies chiefly in the overstrain of early and | 
middle life, or in a continued neglect of the plainest ; 
laws of health. 
To this class Compound Oxygen comes as a boon ; 
and a blessing. It has rarely happened in our admin¬ 
istration of this new agent of cure that persons in ad- j 
vanqed life have not found it a remarkable quickcner 
of all the vital forces, giving a new sense of life and 
comfort, and complete or partial freedom from ain 
where nervous or organic troubles have entailed suf¬ 
fering. The following extract from a letter written to 
us by a lady in Ohio, seventy years of age, gives an in¬ 
stance of what Compound Oxygen can do and is do- \ 
ing in a large number of cases for the aged, in bringing 
them relief from suffering and depressing weakness 
in their declining years: 
“ I am much better,” she writes. “ of all my troubles, 
though I ain reminded of them occasionally. I said 
all. The oldest of all is Dyspepsia, which hangs on in 
some form occasionally, but which dates back more 
than twenty years. The skin trouble, by whatever 
name it maybe called, came next; after being a six 
years' scourge, has mostly disappeared. The Ca¬ 
tarrh , a jive years'distress, has also gone entirely. 
The throat disease and laryngitis gone; only threat¬ 
ening a little upon taking cold. 
•* 1 have never given up to be an invalid, confined to 
the house, and if it were not that I am threescore and 
ten, I think I could increase in strength and activity. 
What strength I have and what power to do / at tri¬ 
bute, under the blessing of God.to the use of Oxygen, 
as I feel confident I should have succumbed to Bron¬ 
chitis, if not to other diseases, had I not used it. 
“ I shall keep the Oxygen and use as I need. I hope 
by this means to finally overcome the dyspeptic tend¬ 
ency. I have written thus definitely that you may 
use it as you please, only withholding name for the 
present. Some time I may give it.” 
In the case of a gentlemen over seventy-four years 
of age, the brother of a physician who procured our 
Treatment for him, the revitalizing action of Com¬ 
pound Oxygen is quite as marked: 
A party of Texan wagoners, after a hard dny" 
pull, were chatting around the camp-fire while th£y 
smoked their pipes. “Sambo, mo blioy,” exclaim-* 
Pat, a rollicking Irishman, to a jolly darkoy, “ tell t. 
wlmt makes your nose so Hat?” “Dun’no, Mnrv 
Pat,” answered Sam, “ but 1 ’spec it’s to keep 
from pokiu’ mj' nose into other people’s busiuess.^ 
A Ivnnbo in the AVIiite House. 
(From the Baltimore American.) 
There was seen yesterday at Messrs Ivnabe & Co i 
factory a magnificent concert grand, just finished tj 
them for the presidential mansion. President Autbur 
who is a thorough conuoisseur of music, in selectiz^ 
a piano for the White House, decided in favor of i±* 
Knabe Piano as his preference, and ordered accord¬ 
ingly the instrument referred to. It is a conca 
grand of beautiful finish in a richly carved rose wo j. 
case, and of superb tone and action—an instrumez 
worthy in every respect of the place it is to occupy 
It was shipped to its destination yesterday. 
BUSINESS BREVITIES. 
“ My brother writes mo that he has gained in weight 
sixteen pounds since the 1st of October last. Feels 
strong as a young Samson. Has an excellent appe¬ 
tite and a good digestion. Cough and expectoration 
reduced to less than nine-tenths of what it was six 
months ago, when he began the Compound Oxygen 
Treatment. He says that in all his long life (above 
Breakfast Cocoa, as a beverage, is universal; 
conceded superior to all other drinks for tho weary 
man of business or tlie more robust laborer. Tt» 
preparations of Walter Baker & Co. have long Leer 
the standard of merit in this line, aud our reader, 
who purchase “ Baker's Breakfast Cocoa" will fix-: 
it a most healthful, delicious and invigorating Le- 
erage. 
Something for the Domestic Circle. —It isr. v . 
always the flower of the family that makes tho be» 
bread. 
Make your old things look like new by using 
Diamond Dyes, and you will be happy. Any of tL 
fashionable colora for 10 cents. 
“Patrick, were you a minor when you landed s 
America ?” asked the naturalization officer. 
11 No, j T our honor, I was a bricklayer.” 
Paralytic strokes, heart disease, and kidney off ca¬ 
tions, prevented by tho use of Brown’s Iron Bitters. 
“This insurance policy is a queer thing,” sc. 
Dobbs, reflectively. “ If I can’t sell it, I cancel c • 
aud if I cancel it, I can’t sell it.” 
Nursing .mothers gain new strength by us£r-' 
Brown's Iron Bitters. It acts like a charm in roster 
ing to health aud strength overstrained nature. 
A caustic wit, in speaking of an impecunioc 
friend, said, “He settles his debts just like clock-wor-j 
—tick, tick, tick.” 
“ Magnificent promises sometimes end in paltr 
performances.” A magnificent exception to this » 
round in Kidney-wort which invariably, perforr 
even more cures than it promises. Here is a sln^f. 
instance : “Mother has recovered,” wrote an IHli£> 
girl to her Eastern relatives. “ She took bitters f." 
a long time without any good. So when she heard 
tho virtues of Kidney Wort she got a box and it b» 
completely cured her liver complaint.” 
