THE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET. 
Catalogues, etc., received. 
Etwiett, J. A., Watsoutown, Pa.—Annual Cata- 
pio of Vegetable and Flower Seeds. 
{Uxnie, Wu., Toronto, Canada.—Annual Ulus- 
ged Catalogue of Vegetable, Field and Flower 
Agricultural Implements, Bulbs and Plants. 
Fjlssett, F. E. & Bro., Ashtabula, Ohio.—Illustra- 
J Catalogue of Bedding Plants, Vegetable and 
over Seeds. 
Pjlrsons & Sons Co., Flushing, N. Y.—Descriptive 
lUloguo of hardy Ornamental Trees, Flowering 
jubs and Vines, including Rhododendrons, Roses, 
jgnolias, Chinese and Ghent Azaleas, Japanese 
spies, Camellias, and other rare and choice plants, 
a invaluable guide to those who contemplate orna- 
ental planting. 
Garden Talks.— An Illustrated Horticultural Quar- 
•riy Magazine. Tuisco Grenier, Naples, N. Y., 20 
ents per year. 
ItosESTEa Commercial Nurseries, Wm, S. Lit- 
Je CVx, Rochester, N. Y.—Semi-Annual Price List 
sfffcatand Ornamental Trees, etc., etc. 
fjim iRNiA Roses —W. A. T. Stratton’s Annual 
iuJogue of Roses and Bedding Plants. A very 
vnplete and attractive list. Petaluma, Cal. 
Reliable Seeds and Honest Prices is the Trade- 
ark that Isaac F. Tillingliast, La Plume, Pa., 
fcpts in sending out a very attractive Catalogue of 
egetable and Flower Seeds for 1SS3 Mr. Tillin- 
iiit is a practical seedsman, and knows what is re¬ 
ared for the farm and garden to produce the best 
salts. Such only, he catalogues. Free to all appli- 
•ats. 
Corn and Potato Manual, J. C. Vaughan, Chi- 
£ 0 , Ill.—A unique and complete Catalogue of 
egetable Seeds, with special cultural instructions, 
yether with a concise history of the Corn and 
:tito, so far as an authentic history can be ob- 
ined. We should advise our readers to send for a 
PJ- 
5TRAW BERRY CULTURE AND CATALOGUE.—Mathei'O 
awford, Cuyahoga Falls, Summit Co , Ohio. 
Or. Ryder’s American Fruit Drier and Pneumatic 
zporator. American Manufacturing Co., Waynes- 
ro, Pa. 
1. A. Buel & Co., Springfield, Ohio.—Annual Cata- 
jue of Vegetable and Flower Seed, Plants, Roses, 
etc. 
E. B. Underhill, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—Berry 
af and price list of all desirable berries. 
Edward Gillett, Southwick, Mass.—Annual Cata- 
gue of North American Perennial Plants, Orchids, 
usbs, rare Ferns, etc., etc. 
E. Y. Teas, Dunreitli, Ind.—Annual Catalogue of 
uit and Ornamental Trees, Bulbs, Plants and 
mil Fruits for 1683. 
L S. Smith, South Sudbury, Mass.—Illustrated 
mial Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds. 
’bettyman, D. D., Salem, Oregon.—Descriptive 
talogue and Price List of General Nursery Stock. 
ohn Saul, Washington, D. C.—Annual Doscrip- 
3 Catalogue of new, rare and beautiful plants, 
luding Crotons, Dracaanas and other plants grown 
their ornamental foliage; and a complete assort- 
nt of greenhouse and bedding <plants. Also a 
aloguo of sixteen pages, devoted exclusively to 
ses. Next to having Roses, is Mr. Saul's descrlp- 
i of them, together with a fine colored plate of the 
j Hybrid Perpetual, “A. K. Williams,” one of the 
t Roses in cultivation. Send 10 cents for cata- 
tie with colored plate. 
ohmbrcial Nurseries, Knodlo Bros , Proprietors, 
lng ’ J* 1 -—Annual Illustrated Catalogue of Oraa- 
atal Shrubs, Small Fruits, etc., etc. 
W. C. Wilson, Astoria, L. I., N. Y., and 45 West 
14th Street, New York.—Annual Catalogue of Green¬ 
house and Bedding Plants, Bulbs, Vegetable and 
Flower Seeds. 
Education of Farmers’ Children.—A paper read 
before the Durliamville Grange, Lauderdale Co, 
Tonn., by Isaac L. Cose, A. M., M. D. This paper con¬ 
tains more real good practical common sense than 
anything of its character we have ever read. It 
should be in the hands of every farmer in the land ; 
ns its influences arc well calculated to sweeten their 
toils, and make what is the most useful employment 
the most pleasing and attractive. 
McAllister, F. E., 31 Fulton Street, New York.— 
Annual Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds. 
Bulbs and Small Fruits, Bird Seed and Bird Food. 
This is one of the very best Catalogues we have seen, 
it contains 120 pages of beautifully printed matter on 
flue paper, giving the common names in English and 
German, together with the botanical names of each 
plant. Its illustrations are truthful and complete. 
It is sent free to all applicants. 
Hovey & Co., 1C South Market St., Boston, Mass. 
Annual illustrated Catalogue of Vegetable and Garden 
Seeds We always look with pleasure for the coming of 
this Catalogue, knowing it comes from a house of the 
highest reputation for character, no less than for a 
thorough knowledge of everything in the seed and 
plant line. They list all novelties of merit, of recent 
introduction, besides a ‘’New' and elegant Hardy 
Amaryllis,” A. Hallii, a variety somewhat resem¬ 
bling the well-known A. Belladonna . Its flowers are 
three inches in diameter, and of a soft rose color, 
delicately tinged with blue. A perfectly hardy 
Amaryllis of this character must be a decided acqui¬ 
sition. _ 
“ Father,” he suddenly remarked, as he looked up 
into the parental face, “you are awfully good to 
ma." 
“Ami? Well, I hope I treat her as a husband 
should a devoted wife.” 
“ And it’s all over the place how liberal you are to 
her.” 
How—what do you mean ? ” 
“ Why, I heard three or four men in the ’bus say 
that all you had in the world was in her name! ” 
“Yes—ahem—yes—you go to bed, sir; and the 
next time you hear people lying about me, don’t 
listen to what they say.” 
“What is woman’s sphere?” To be mathemati¬ 
cally correct, we suppose woman’s sphere is, being 
always ’round when you want her, and sometimes 
when you don’t want her .—Lowell Citizen. 
DANGER TO CONSUMPTIVES IN 
HIGH ALTITUDES. 
One of the fatal errors into which the profession 
lias fallen, is that of sending consumptive patients to 
Colorado and other elevated positions, where the at¬ 
mosphere is greatly rarified, and the supply of 
oxygen, the life-giving element, proportionately 
diminished. 
In diseases of the lungs, a larger supply of oxygen 
than the patient has been in the habit of obtaining 
through ordinary respiration is absolutely necessary. 
The very converse of this treatment is that which 
sends a patient to Colorado, where every thousand 
feet of elevation is attended with a serious loss of 
oxygen, in consequence of the rarer condition of the 
atmosphere. A consumptive patient not long since 
described to us her sensations on reaching Leadville, 
where her physician had sent her. She said that the 
atmosphere was so rare, and her lung capacity so 
small, that to got a sufficient supply of oxygen she 
panted rather than breathed, and felt as if she 
would suffocate, and that not until she had descended 
some three or four thousand feet was she relieved 
from this distressing condition. 
Take a patient with lung disease, who has become 
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greatly reduced in strength, and send him to* 
Colorado. What will be the natural result, the out¬ 
come of natural causes ? He needs a larger supply 
of oxygen, but is sent to a region where the air does 
r.ot contain one-half or two-thirds as much of this 
lifegiving element as that which he has been used to- 
breathing. He wants, besides, rest and the opportu¬ 
nity to regain the strength which has been wasting. 
But in his effort to get the amount of oxygen that 
nature demands, he has to breathe with increased’ 
rapidity and with an unusual and continued effort 
that soon exhausts the little strength that remains 
after his fatiguing journey. No wonder that so many 
die from home and that so few get well after so vain, 
a quest for health. 
At home, with the quiet, rest and physical comfort 
which can there alone be secured, nine patients out. 
of ten are better off than in any of the so-called—we 
might say miscalled — health resorts to which physi¬ 
cians are in the habit of sending them. If the disease 
is one that demands a larger supply of oxygen than 
the weak or wasted lungs can get from the atmos¬ 
phere, the new treatment by Compound Oxygen will 
supply that demand; or, if from any cause there is a. 
condition of low vitality and nervous exhaustion, for 
which the family physician orders change and travel 
as a last prescription, in nine cases out of ten Com¬ 
pound Oxygen will give the needed help. And as it 
can be used at home, where every attainable comfort, 
is secured to the patient, all the chances of recovery 
are in his favor. 
Any information that may be desired in regard to* 
this Oxygen treatment will be furnished by Drs. 
Starkey & Palen of 1109 Girard street, Philadelphia, 
who have treated successfully many thousands of 
cases of consumption, catarrh, bronchitis, asthma, 
and the various affections, of the respiratory organs, 
during the past'thirteen years. Their treatise on the 
discover}*, nature and action of this singularly active 
vitalizing agent will be mailed free to any one who- 
will write for it. 
A physician, writing from one of the larger towns; 
in Colorado, says: ” I find here a peculiar tendency 
to Neuralgia of certain nerves and their branches; 
especially of the fifth pair, causing tic-douloureux or 
old authors. The throat and lungs, as well as all of 
the air-passages are very subject to their peculiar 
diseases. Pneumonia is the latal disease —especi¬ 
ally at this season of the year (January) — carr}*ing- 
off its victims in the early or congestive stage. Al¬ 
most every one coming here is afflicted with loss of 
appetite and deranged digestive organs — for a time 
at least; and although the thousands who are daily 
seen on the street and doing business will not admit, 
that they are sick, yet they do not feel as well as in a 
lower altitude. Many get up in the morning feelingr 
well, but before noon their energies are gone, and' 
they do not feel well again until the next morning. 
Such is a hasty statement of the physical condition 
here in Colorado. I learn that many doctors are pre¬ 
scribing blue mass and quinine largely in most cases,, 
which you well know is not the thing. What is wan¬ 
ted here is a vitalizer rather than a depresser. 
This is strong and positive testimony, and should 
be carefully considered by every invalid who thinks, 
of going to Colorado. 
BUSINESS BREVITIES. 
Explicit directions for every use are given with the- 
Diamond Dyes. For dyeing Mosses, Grasses, Eggs,. 
Ivory, Hair, etc. Only 10 cents. 
Elderly Agriculturist (to season-ticket holder in . 
the train ): “ You have no ticket.” 
Ticket-holder. “ No ; I travel on my good looks.” 
Agriculturist (after looking him over). “Then, 
probably you ain’t goin’ very far.” 
General smile. 
Remarkable for overcoming diseases caused by 
unpure water, decaying vegetation, etc., is Brown’s. 
Iron Bitters. 
“The wise mother,” says the Christian Union, 
‘‘ should be the head of her household.” Now, young 
man, you know what you may expect if you many a 
wise woman. 
When your wife’s health is bad, when your children 
are sickly, when you feel worn out, uso Brown’s Iron 
meters. 
