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THE LADIES' FLOEAL CABINET. 
Catalogues, Etc. 
BDtBS.-James M. Thorbum & Co., 15 John Street, New York, 
wbolesale and retail catalogues ot Hjacinths, Tulips, Lilies, and 
other bulbs; tubers and roots for fall planting. Lily of the Val¬ 
ley for forcing a speciality. Free to ali applicants. 
Bulm.—B. K. Bliss & Sons, SI Barclay Street, New York. Annual 
fall catalogue of Dutch bulbs, plants, etc., etc. Containing a toe 
colored plate of the Clematis Coccinea. Free to all applicants. 
Bulk Pi.ANT8.-PeterHenderson & Co., 85 Cortlandt Street, New 
xork. Wholesale and retail catalogues of Hyactutbs, Tulips, and 
all other seasonable bulbs, roots and tubers; together with a 
complete list of Greenhouse plants, seeds, etc., etc. Free to all 
appheants. 
Smau Fbotts.—E. P. Roe, CouwaU-on-the-Hudson, New York. Il¬ 
lustrated catalogue of sm.all fruits. Free on application. 
Boras, ETO.-Young&Elliott,12CortlnndtStreet,NewYork. Whole- 
s^e catalogue of aU kinds of bulbs for faU planting, florists' sup- 
pnes, etc., etc. Tulips for forcing a specialty. Sent free. 
Bvlbs and Plants.—V. 
York. Wholesale 
specialty.' 
H, Hallock, Son & Thorpe, Queens, New 
catalogue o£ bulbs and plants. Geraniums a 
Chicago, m. Wholesale catalogue 
ot bmbs, flower-seeds, and plants for winter blooming. Fiorists 
supphes and garden requisites. 
Planto ^ Seeds.— Arnold Puetz, Jacksonville, Fla. Descriptive 
retail list of plants and seeds; plants indigenous to Florida a 
specialty. 
Bclbs, FLiSTS, Etc.— Storrs & Harrison Co., Paincsville, Ohio. Des¬ 
criptive catalogue of seeds, bulbs, plants, trees and small fruits 
Free on application. 
Bcins, Trees, Pi.aots.— Nanz & Neuner, Louisville, Ky. Wholesale 
catalogue of Dutch Bulbs, Greenhouse Plants, Ornamental 
_ Shrubs and small fruits. Free to all applicants. 
Pbemiuji List.— American Institute, New York. List of premiums 
to be awarded at the flfty-flrst Exhibition, for fnUts, vegetables 
and flowers, to be held at their Exhibition Hail, on the 27th day 
of September, and on 11th of October, 1882. 
ACKNOWLEDGUENTS. 
We are under obUgations to Messrs. Hallock, Son & Thorpe, of 
Queens. N. Y., for the opportunity of flgm-ing the beautiful basket 
plant, Stenotaphron glabrum variegatum. 
Odds and Ends. 
Tom Thomu is said to own a yacht. Wo suppose she is sailed by a 
Thumb’s crow.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. 
A. PopoiiAE writer, speaking of the ocean telegraph, wonders 
"'hether the nows transmitted through the sait water wiil be fresh. 
A French paper has the story ot a widow who visited the tomb 
"’here reposed her lately lost husband. “ Well,” said she, “ there is 
one oonsoiatioii for mo. I know now whore he spends his evenings! ” 
Latin is a dead ianguage, and that is why doctors use it for writ¬ 
ing out their prescriptions.—jVeio Orleans Picayune. 
“ I sopposE," said a quack, while feeling a patient's pulse, “that 
you consider mo a humbug?” “How odd it is,” responded the 
patient, “that you can so accurately tell a man’s thoughts by the 
feeling of his pulse.” 
An inebriate was vainly trying to And his way homo. Ho accosted 
a passer-by irith, “ Beg pai-don, sir, I’ve been having too good a time 
to walk very straight; will you be kind enough—bog pardon, 
sii'—to tell mo which is the other side of the street ? ” ' “ Why, my 
dear fellow, I suppose it is just over there,” pointing uith his finger. 
The inebriate seemed to be strangely puzzied by tlio answer, and for 
a moment was lost in profound meditation. At last he looked into 
the stranger’s face, said sweetiy, “Beg pardon, sh-, that’s just what 
I thought myself, but I went over about ten miuutes ago and asked 
a gentlemen the same question, and, beg pardon, sh-—he told me it 
was over here. VTint in the world I’m going to do I don’t know. 
Y’ou see—beg pai-don, sir—I live just on the other side ot the street 
from the Club, and I’ve been more than two hom-s trying to find it ” 
—Standard. 
The obliging visitor, to show that he is really fond of children, and 
that the dear litUe one is not annoying him in the ieast, treats the 
kid to a ride upon his knee. “Trotl trot! trot! How do you like 
that, my boy? Is that nice?” “ Yes, sir,” replies the child, “but not 
SO nice as on Uie real donkey, the one with four legs!” 
Once, when papa was carrying Ava across an icy spot, he slipped 
a little several times. Ava tightened her wee arms around his neck 
ru hoid you up just as tight, papa,” said she, “ and then you won’t 
fall down.”— Youth's Companion. 
She was too smart.-Au insurance agent appUed to a woman in 
Austin to induce her to get her husband's life insured. 
” Will I be sure to get the money if he dies right off?” 
Certainly, Madame.” 
“ But will you give me any assurance that he will die right off?” 
No, Madame, we cannot do that.” 
“ WeU, then, what good will it be to me to get his life insured if he 
don t die? I knew there was some catch about this insurance busi- 
ness. — Texas Siftings. 
My first signifies to destroy; my second would destroy 
not destroyed by my whole.—Breakfast. 
What trees are those which, if fire be applied to them 
as before?”-Ashes. 
me if it were 
are the same 
■ lyo little brothers were looking at the moon. The youngest two 
years old, had never seen it before. The next morning, hopping 
about In his night-dress, he suddenly ran to the window, exclaiming 
“Where moon?” “Oh, don’t you know,”said wise four-year-old’ 
“ its hloieed ouf in the moi-ning.—Fouf/i’s Compombn. 
“I SUPPOSE when women get their rights,”said the young man in 
the flat hat, “ you girls will be making love to the fellows. It must 
be awfully nice to be made love to, you know.” “Yes,” replied 
Angelina, “only one wants to choose one’s lovers.” The next 
moment the young man in the flat hat was standing alone, 
fiatter than his flat hat.— Boston Transcript. 
Bessie went to chureh one Sunday, and w-asa little “oflr”lnher 
demeanor. She was deprived of the privilege—it is a delight to her— 
for a week or two. Then her mother invited her on condlUons The 
preacher had arrived at “Let us pray.” Bessie shut her eyes 
covering them with her hands. But before the supplication began 
she raised one for a sly glance at Mamma, with the significant re¬ 
quest, “ Flease wake me, when he gets frew.”—Boston Transcript 
There,” she said, waving her marriage certifleato in the a 
there is the flag of our union 1 "-Philadelphia Chronicle-Herai 
What’s your name?” asked one little four-year-old miss 
MothCT. I do declare! ” replied the second little girl, “ you are i 
taqufalUve as grown peoples. They always askses n^ LuH^ 
I^Zd of’ei^ 01^" 
AAA9V \Augr \ 
What is that which every man can divide, but no man can see 
where it is divided?—Water. 
Wire is a selfish friend like the letter P?-Because though first to 
pity, he IS last to help. ° . 
Why is blindman’s-buff like sympathy?—It is a fellow feeling for a 
fellow-creature. o « 
Three afl^ctions beget little or no sympathy—sea-sickness, home¬ 
sickness and love-sickness. An honest Dutchman proved, however 
an exception to the rule. His friend Herman being jilted, told his 
sorrows to the Dutchman; 
“ Herman, my poy,” said Hoffenstein, after ho had listened attent¬ 
ively , “I know how you feels. I vent gourting mit a girl for nine 
years, und ven I dinks she vas going to be my rife, she goes und takes 
a fellow vat vasn’t vert de bowder vat blows him to tunder! 
“ It vas the same vay mit a mule vot I hav, und vot I blaces all my 
dependence in. I rode dat mule from de time he vas a colt undll he 
vas so old that his eyes vas veak, und he vas shust so gentle as a do". 
“ 'Pot you dink, Herman, dat mule vorked for fifteen years, to get 
my gonfldence, und den he vent back on me. Von day rile I vas 
riding de mule along tlie road he stopped vere dere vas a brier mtoh 
mit a vasp nest in it. 
“ I hits mit the spurs to make him go avay, but he von’t. Vat does 
he do? He rinks a gouple of times mit his earn, kicks up his heels 
und I find myself in de brier jiatch mit the vasps all ofer m> 
Exchange. 
