Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-12-18

10 Nifty what he had done to his Cousin Car
ollne In the afternoon, and-But never
b b1ind; inc story Is told, and you can guess
married tn her herO.-CdSseU's Fryaly NOnthLy
Magazine for December.
Fried Potatoes.
great deal of good material is wasted for
want of proper cooking. Food which mjeht
have been made delicious with little trouble
oIten comes upon the tables coarse and al
most UNBEATABLE Ofall the vegetables which
suffer from ignorant handling, potatoes are
the most i'll treated. Day after day people
are expected to eat boiled potatoes wa
terry and half done. baked potatoes full of
lmperfections and also watery; mashed no.
tatoes, yellow, "soggJ' and tasteless. and
fri6d potatoes, cut thick, swimming i'm
grt ase, and a. detestable to the eye as thew
are abominable to a we'll trained pala te
Inc real Saratoga potatoes are easily pre-
part d AND are delicious for breakfast or lunch.
ine mrs. thing necessary for their prepara-
ton is the purchase OF small appliance of
wood and $ eel, which somewhat resembles
&C carpenters plane. This article is known
GERS as "ca Stage CUTTER" as it Is used to
cut all these things. Ii costs only 60 cents
and very easily and neatly shaves off the
raw potatoes In slices almost as thin as pa
per. A handful Of these slices is thrown
into Dol ing lard, and as soon as they are
nicely Drowned they are to be removed with
SKINNER, care being taken 10 drain off
every particle of the hot fat. They should
be salted Immediately, and kept in a hot d ish
by the fire until thu right quantity has been
GOV, red, as that would make them fat
soaked. Potatoes cooked in this way look
as daintily as they taste, land are very
quickly made ready with the aid of the eX-
cellent little "cutter.'-Ne,D York Tribune.
A LIVELY CoNDUCroR.-A few DAVIS Ago
freight conductor on one OF the railroads
went to the superintendent and said he
thought he ought to be advanced, having
served on the freight for several Y ears. The
superintendent agreed with him, and told him
that the change should be made the very
next week. And it was made. The super
the rear end of one of the coaches to see how
the new conductor would take to business,
and pretty soon the official danced into the
door, cap on ms ear, sleeves pushed up, and
Get cut your pasteboa rds." he shouted,
"Im the high muncky muck that runs this
train, and then, turning right and left, he
"Right bowers this way-play lively-pass
or order up-hOws trumps your side-slide
you night into Chicago-hurry up, there
trump this ace-what kind OF hand do you
hold, old man?''
There was something novel and exh!l-
arating in his style, but yet the super
fntendent called the conductor up stairs the
next day and told him that he was the best
man In America to run freight train. and
that he would have to promote him back
wards. He was too talented for a passenger
conductOr.-Detroit Free Press.
N.
The decline in the population of France,
while most OF the surrounding countries are
daily increasing, has arrested the attention
of the Journal des Debats, probably the most
intelligent newspaper of Paris. Comment
ing on the gloomy prospects OF its country,
the Journal says: when we think what
the civilized people will be in hundred
United States occupying all North America
with q population of a hundred million;
England with its colonies in Africa. Austria.
a m inc q Iyy in, n
bers and civilization; Russia occupying all
Northern and Central Asia, and perhaps de-
scending to the Bosphorus, with a compact
mass of hundred and fifty million tnhabi-
tants; lastly, the Germans, planted in the
middle OF Europe, mass of sixty to eighty
million soulsmand we Frenchmen, where
shall we be? What will be our Importance?
What weight shall we bear in the world?
Where will be the old supremacy, not alone
OF our statesmanshIP. but of our custom and
neglect OF colonial development the cause of
the decline Of France.
YOUNG LIONS NURsED BY A TERRIER
Carefully Gagged in the dimly lighted lower
regions of Central Park museum are two
pair, lion and lioness, fine, healthy little
creatures, and in two weeks more will be
old enough 10 show to the public. They are
the progeny of pair OF beasts known as
Lincoln and Jenny in the Museum. But the
mother being from confinement or some
other cause, unable to nurse them, they were
at once given 10 large terrier, whose pup
pies were taken away, and who plays the
part OF a foster mother. She seems indeed
as fond Of the cubs as If they We're her own
offspring, and covers them with caresses, al
though they are already half as big as she is
1t is curious fact that lions reared in can
tiv1ty are not as gentle as those captured
and tanned. The parents Of the cubs, which
were caught when wild, and tanned, are very
uactable, while some of the other lions
which were brought up here are sullen and
ferOciOus.-N Y Times, Eth.
REV. DIR. TALMAGE's IDEA OF HEAyEN-
From his recent book. Modem discovery
shows that the planets 60 around the sun and
that the sun and the planets-iudeed all the
CELESTIAL systems-gO in one direction and in
one circle, all going around about some great
central world; world vast beyond all astro-
nOmical calculation; q world vast enough, by
power of gravitatiOn. To wheel the N hoio