Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-02-08
EVENING STAR.
EXcellelt Hinfs.


Always mend clothes before washing
alum or vinegar IL good 10 set colors Of red,
green or yellow
Sal soda Will bleach very white: one spoon.
ful lie enough for a kettle Of clothes.
save your suds for garden plants, or TO har-
Gen yards when sandy.
STIR Poland starch win a common candle.
much nicer.
towels, handkerchiefs, &c, at least once
week.
Wash your tea-trays with cold suds, polish
with little flour, and rub with dry cloth.
Frozen potatoes make more starch than fresh
ones; they also make nice cake
Save all your pieces of bread for puddings
dry, or they will mould.
Examine your pickles, sweetmeats, and
every thing put away.
Buy small quantities of cheese at a time.
hot shovel held over vanished furniture,
will take out white spots
"A bit Of glue dissolved in skim milk and wa
Ter, Will restore old Grape.
Rlbands of any kind should be washed in
eoId soap-suds, and not rinsed.
your nat irons are rough, rub them well
with hne salt, and 1t will make them smooth.
Oat straw is the best for Hing beds; Ii should
be changed once q year.
fyou are buying a carpet for durability,
choose small figures.
bit Of soap rubbed on the hinges of doors
will prevent their creaking.
Scotch snuf on holes where crickets come
ont, will dettroy them.
Wood ashes and common salt, wet with wa
ter will stop the cracks of a stove, and prevent
the smoke from escaping.
A gallon of strong I've put in a barrel of hard
water, will make II as soft as rain water
Halt cranberry bound on a corn Will soon
kill IL
In the winter set the handle of your pump as
high as possible at night or throw a blanket
over 1t, or straw 1t up.-GermdntoIca Telegraph
~The confectioners in Paris now put reli-
Elous extracts in the bons- bOns instead of love
notices.
6PsopIe in New York who have to move
on or before the before the LIST of May, are in a
panic because there are no houses TO be hired.
81 Mrs. Emma Hardinge, better known as
"Belle Boyd" who recently gave to the public
TIVE volumes of adventures in the Confederate
ano feosral STATES, In the prisons and in the
camps OF both sections, now announces herself
as ''the celebrated eXtemporaneous lecturer
at St. James Hall, in London.
81 Ii is said that one of the signs on which
southern alarmists relied, as promising an in
surrectiOn during the Christmas HOLIDAYS, was
mat the negroes were going about the country
looking black.
R-One account OF the Seventh Regiment
bail in New York says the garden OF Eden
style of nudity about the bust and shoulders
was universally prevalent, and not always
with very young ladies, or ladies stair "a ala
basIer. '-BOSfOH Post.
ESThe British financial companies formed
last year hold a nominal capital of 1876, OnaOpD
in gold, and ask the legal authority for adding
companies during the last three years reaches
the enormous sum OF nearly two thousand
milnons OF dollars in gold.
The Marquis of LoTn, eldest son OF the
Duke OF Argyll. aged 81, is about 10 start on a
frightened tour on the American continent
he will be accompanied in this tour by two
other young noblemen. In the first instance
they proceed TO Jamaica.
- Mile. Tletiens has met with "a rain of
vreaths and flowers in Hamburg.
RSMore than one million OF Webster spelling
books have been sold 10 the South sInce last
April, and the demand is so much greater than
the supply that the publishers have sent to
Europe 10 get 1t printed.
SMr. jefferson the comic actor il is said.
don, where he has Won great professional pop
nlarity.
ga pneumatic tube dispatch company is
organizing in New York.
SThe cashier of the u s. sub-treasury at
San Francisco is a defaulter in Si0.O0O.
HNew York is represented as being extra.
ordinarily gay with It's skating carnival. The
ponds are Int with calcium burners, the skaters
wear fancy costumes and the merry making is
kept up until late hour.
~Rather a remarkable subject for debate
was that which called together the Irish citi.
zens OF indianapolis few night ago. They
met 10 give expression TO their sentiments dis
approving OF the practice of wife murder, re-
cent events there having made such a nantes
tatIon sminently appropriate.
%Gen. McKinstry, who was quartermas-
ter in Missouri early in the war, is about to
publish history of Fremont's campaign, and
promises startling revelations which will
make a tremendous sensation
1vThe census returns show that the total
number of Indians in the United States is three
hundred and seven thousand. About five
thousand were in the service of the government
during the war, and some thousand more were
on the side of the late Confederacy.
HThe Saturday Press says the Fenians are
about TO organize cavalry service, the chief
of which will have the title OF Head Cen.
taur."
A LARGE srVCk OF MERCHANDISE, from
"A Unified States Government hos pital and Army