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THE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET. 
Catalogues, Etc. 
“ This is the ropk o£ ages,” said a tired father who had kept the 
cradle going two hours, and the baby still awake. 
Ellwa.ncier & Bany, Rochester, N. Y. Descriptive price list of 
strawberries, currants and all other small fruits offered for IS® 
One knows by reading their catalogue just what to buy, and from 
the character of tho firm, know they are getting just what thev 
order. An illustration of Fay’s Prolific Currant, true to life shows 
plainly tho marked improvement culture has developed in this use 
ful fruit. The catalogue is complete in cultural instructions-a 
useful feature tor amateurs. 
We are under .obligations to the Secretary of the Kansas State 
Board of Agriculture tor their quarterly report ending June SO IS® 
containing special papers on education for farmers, the holding of 
farmers’ institutes, practical botany, fish culture, tho raising and 
management of sheep, together with a full report as to the condition 
and yield of crops, condition of fruits, farm animals, meteorological 
data, public lands, etc., etc. 
Messrs. G. W. Harlan & Co., of New York, will shortly begin the 
publication of a series of novels under the title Kaaterskill Series, at 
the uniform rate of Si each. The initial volume will be A Fair 
Philosopher, to be followed by A Modern Harjar, both .from the 
pens of two leading novelists whoso originality and power have been 
recognised on all hands. 
The Erie Railway has begun, through its passenger department, 
the publication of “ Recreation ," a convenient, practical and taste¬ 
ful monthly, in which tho well-known merits of the country trav¬ 
ersed by this lino are eloquently and effectively sot forth. Both 
illustrations and miscellany are good, the original matter varied 
and piquant, and the tourist will find “Recreation ” well worth more 
than a passing notice. 
Odds and Ends. 
A LITTLE ROGUE. 
Grandma was nodding, I rather think ; 
Harry was sly and quick as a wink ; 
He climbed on the back of her great arm-chair, 
And nestled himself very snugly there. 
Grandma’s dark locks were mingled with white, 
And quick this little fact came to his sight; 
A sharp twinge soon she felt at her hair, 
And woke with a start to find Harry there. 
“ Why, what are you doing, my child ? ” she said; 
He answered, “I’se pulling a basting-fread 1 ” 
—Wide Awake. 
“Don't put in no muskeeter nettin’ for me,” said Aunt Hannah. 
“ I don’t want to breathe no strained air.” 
“I love the summer,” said the boarding-school girl when she 
eloped with her arithmetic teacher. 
Cincinnati claims a person who lives wholly on water. He must 
be a harbor buoy. 
Father, who is always trying to teach his son how to behave 
while at the table: “Well, John, you see that when I have finished 
eating I always leave the table,” John—“Yes, sir; and that’s 
about all you do leave*.” 
The shower came up, or rather it came down—a shower never 
comes up—so unexpectedly that nearly everybody was taken by 
surprise, and Jefferson street was in a panic. Young Masher, who 
never goes without his umbrella, saw his opportunity, and sailing 
up to the prettiest girl with the prettiest hat in all Burlington, made 
a bow that is warranted to kill across the street, and said, “ May X 
offer you my umbrella?” “Oh, a thousand thanks !”.she said; 
papa will bring it down to his office in the morning.” And she sailed 
away dry-shod, leaving him desolate and soaking in his loneliness, 
like a pelican in the wilderness and as a weather vane upon the 
housetop.— Burlington Hawkey e. 
Daisies go to waste in the fields until the city ladies arrive, and 
then—they go to waist. 
What the boys have got hold of now: “A shutter fell off a house 
to-day, and falling on the tongue of a wagon, knocked it speechless- 
A jury was impanelled and the case tried, and a verdict render 
that the shutter must be hung.” 14 Well, what in the world did they 
hang the shutter for ? ” anxiously asked the listener. “ Oh, just or 
a blind,” replies the narrator of this nice little joke as he jumps ou 
of the way of a stuffed club.— Kingston Courier . 
“ What pretty children, and how much they look alike ! ” said.C., 
during a ill'st visit to a friend’s house. “ They are twins,” his friend 
explains. “ What, both of ’em ? ” exclaims C., greatly interested. 
“ If I have ever used any unkind words, Hannah,” said Mr. Smiley, 
reflectively, 54 1 take them all back.” “ Yes, I suppose you want to 
use them all over again,” was the not very soothing reply. 
One summer when Belle and her mamma were boarding in the 
country, as they were out walking one day, they saw a man driving 
some unruly cows out of a field of clover. The worst cow of all had 
a board hung on her boras, covering her whole face. Belle’s tender 
little heart was filled with pity for the old cow. 
“O mamma,” she cried; “do see that poor old cow with a shade 
over her eyes ! They must be veiy weak. Poor old creature I ”— 
Youths ’ Companion. 
The nobbiest thing in boots is a bunion. 
“ Farewell ” was the title of a poem sent to a newspaper; and 
the cruel editor, in acknowledging its receipt, said, “It is a good 
thing that the gifted authoress bade it good-by, as she will never see 
it again.” 
“ I DON’t like a cottage-built man,” said young Sweeps to his old 
uncle, who was telling the stoiy of his early trials for the hundredth 
time. 
“What do you mean by a cottage-built man ?” asked his uncle. 
“ A man with only one stoiy,” answered young Sweeps.— Harper's 
Bazar. 
In a surburban town lives a relative of tho immortal Mrs. Mala- 
prop. The other evening a caller asked if Mr.-was at home, 
and could be seen ? “I think not,” was the reply; “I believe my 
husband has expired for the night.” 
Monroe, Mich., Sept. 25,1875. 
Sirs— I have been taking Hop Bitters for inflammation of kidneys 
and bladder. It has done for me what four doctors failed to do. The 
effect of the Bitters seemed like magic to me. W. L. Carter. 
“Your meal is ready, sir,” said the waiter to Hayseed just from 
the rural districts. “ Meal! ” exclaimed Hayseed contemptuously, 
“ Do yer think I’m a hoss ? Get me some corned beef and cabbage, 
young man.” 
If you have a sick friend whose life is a burden, one bottle of Hop 
Bitters may restore that friend to perfect health and happiness. 
Will you see that that friend has a bottle at once ? 
Scene— A sylvan retreat. Swell artist—“ I’m going to paint this 
cottage of yours.” Old woman—” Aum glad to hear it, for it hasna 
been dune for monya Iang day; a’vo been at tho laird ower an’ 
ower again, bit he never heeded.” After a brief pause—“ But, losh, 
man, whaur’s yer pail an’ brush ? ” Collapse of artist.— Exchange. 
Revelation suggests the idea that from Woman comes the power 
to “bruise tho serpent’s head.” The words take a new meaning to¬ 
day, since this is precisely what Mrs. Lydia E. Piukham’s Remedies 
do’ for the physically diseased patient. Her Vegetable Compound 
reaches the ultimate sources of the evil. Its action is gentle and 
noiseless, but it is more powerful than the club of Hercules. -Bazar.- 
“ Can you flirt a fan ?” asked a coquette of her partner. “No,” 
he replied, “ I cannot; but I can fan a flirt.” 
Revitalizing the blood is absolutely necessary for tho cure of 
f cneral debility, weakness, lassitude, &6. The best enricher of the 
lood is Brown’s Iron Bitters. 
“ I hope this is not counterfeit,” said a lover, as he toyed with his 
sweetheart’s hand. “ The best way to find out is to ring it,” was the 
quick reply. 
“ Do boldly what you do at all.” Boldly do we affirm that Kidney- 
Wort is the great remedy for liver, bowels and kidney diseases. 
Rheumatism and piles vanish before it. The tonic effect of Kidney- 
Wort is produced by its cleansing and purifying action on tho blood. 
“Do you pretend to have as good a judgment as I have?” ex¬ 
claimed an enraged wife to her husband. “Well, no,” he replied 
slowly, “ our choice of partners for life shows that my judgment is 
not to be compared with yours.” 
The Diamond Dyes always do more than they claim to do. Color 
over that old dress. It will look like new. Only 10 cents. 
“Mabel, why, you dear little girl!” exclaimed her grandfather, 
seeing his little granddaughter with her head tied up, “ have you got 
the headache? ” 
“ No,” she replied quickly, “I haven’t dot the headache, but I dot 
a spitrturl.”— Youths' Companion. 
Debilitated persons, and sufferers from wasting diseases such as 
consumption, scrofula, kidney affections, will be greatly benefited 
by using Brown’s Iron Bitters. 
