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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23
Strange Scene In . Csar, Room.

An Occurrence perhaps without = paraIt-S
wsS witnessed recently az the close 81 Inc I.
siS : at Chester. England, of which the Mss
chester q aarhan - yes the follow tng ac,Naunt
Mary Lancaster, ~, was Indicted for the IN n
stsughtcy of heT husband. John Lancaster o.
Birkeoheed. he had long lei the ITi~oa--
wrttched life and en- the 9th Scptrnbar ~
came hone drunk, and Kicked ovtt the m-st
which she was preparing Zoe hts dinner a.
oner threw AZ him n Sharpening steel. sRs
caused hts death. The prisoner WAS wv
husbands brutal treatment 90 hr hss
done hS best 10 make htS home rnrntert-
able. The jury found the pri~oner study
Mr.. Justice Brett, addressing the pri ~oner
then said believe that az I thou ht a
right "a act according tO your own feelings 4
should say noshine about this unhappy. hus-
band of yours. A. Tar a. can >c'. YOU we<s
a respectable, hari- working, well -brhaysS
wife. ana f,S'i bound 20 say a greater brute
thsn your husband WA I have seldom heard
oi. There ar circumstances in the deposa
lions even worse than those which have he "
brought forward. They show that, rvca q.
the very last day YOU were together, vos
were doing All YOU could 90 MAKE his harar
comfortable and To make him happy VIA
brutality which mstc mc ~hui1rT who's /
prcpart>i iw him. He has been beating
aud hl-treating you for months. probably
tor years, and ~ l. nothing but hs
tenderness sni forgiveness oi the ve-
man ami wife which prevented you
from having him punished ibT crimes he
committed against you time attcr uIn-
"a II only when ne has driven you 10 dc>psr-
alton by ili-treating you the whole dav aRa
| dare - v was on the point OF ili-trcating YOU
again, That YOU, IN a moment OF passion. tDOk
Up a formidable weapon and threw 90 al lufu
| believe, without the intention of striking
him. IL did strike him, and you unmeliat--
~ ran tor assistance, and dia all You could ID
save him. All the real right an thi, case Wa
on your Side-all the real wrong on your hns-
bands, and God forbid that should puniSh
| YOU. viii d. no party 90 H. viii not wen
make this Judgment complete. 1 viii not
allow IL Ia h. said by anybody that you sTs
convicted Teton (hcar, hcarh-foT a Convia-
ton IL not complete until sentence a.
passed, and mean Ia pass no sentence at ala
loud cheering, which for some lime the "a
hciais OF the court vainly endee yoT"t 10 sup
prcss.l ! shall merely ask YOU Ia enter into
! your own reCognizance 10 come up for iudg
| ment il called upon, and nobody Ina the world
will ever call upon you-oOd forbid they ev-S
should. tkenewed cheering. during vhiol
the pIINDucT left the dpcke
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The Cats and the Tsrau,uls.

had n pair OF jet-hlack yellow-ryed cate
twin brothers, OF very large size. which fOi
lowed me when / walked about nav GROUND.
AMI they usually accompanied me when I
hunted The Texan hares ON tte adjacent
mesquite prairie or when sngled ia nay NJ h-
ing-bOat on the Colorado river. They were
very much attached To me, and commonly
sat near me or slept under NV chair or table
when 1 was reading or writing. They POS
SeSSed unusual intelligence, and ~ tau ght
them variety OF amusing tricks. They were
a. useful TO me i'm my war upon the tarantu-
las ~ the pointer was In my contest with ths
snakes, although the spiders were not 80 M
nefOus or dangerous A. the coppprlleids Dss
day, was sitting lu a passage between Two
rooms of an unfinished house upon which ths
carpenters were at work, cau'lessly leaning
back against the wall reading, while the cat.
were lying near me on the rock pavement
which formed the floor oi the passage one ~
them sprung suddenly and gave me a shaxp
blow upon the side Of my knee, which at
tTacted my notice slightly, but a. they oltss
did something Oi the sort Ia induce me Ia lsy
aside my book when they wished me To give
them water CA play with them, did not pay
particular attention to a., and resumed ny
reading; soon one OF them leapet three %
four feet in the AIR and struck me on Inc
shoulder. and instantly the other sprung "a
most rs high ~ my head and knocked a huge
tarantula from the collar of my coat, which
ieii heavily upon the pavement. IL immeci-
atcly "made battle" 10y facing the cats ana
raising ito two foTe-legs at them. and threat
ening them with a display OF its fangS. did
not Interfere with the tight, knowing that the
cats understood well how 10 conduct it. They
quickly separated, and one confronted the
enemy while the other placed himself ina the
rear. When the spider made "A furious but
Intellectual spring al the one which faced H.
the other behind gave a a sharp pat uppn ths
head with his paw which paralyzed ID. thor
TOOK ~ up with pair of tDngS. and placed "a
upon She top Of n large coHical hill ol the use
ful InsectiyoToGS yellow ant OF western Texas
which il very different from the grazing ar,
FOR which II II often mistaken by ignorant u
unob>ervant people, and which j. a pest 10
horticulture. MyTiads OF these in~ert-,ef-.s
soon covered the black, hairy carcass, a q
disappeared with IL in their Subtprrauaan
vaults, where | suppose ID was added 10 tbeit
winter stOrt-S.-i December, Homo AMI y lt0,l
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The Incapable Housewife.

Her dress is always stained with the drop
pings OF her teacup, and she has no interme-
date state between untidineSs and finery.
She puts on her best clothes for a morning
walk, and keeps nothing for her visiting days.
Her piano always wants tuning, and she
never remembers the date of the tax collec-
tors visits. She fOrgets her gloves or her
cari-case till she has arrived at the hall door
and when they are brought the gloves ALWAYS
want buttons, and there are no cards in the
case. She never learns the rOte of post
age, and writes her foreign l,tters after
the mail has gone out. A drive in cab
involves fight about the fare, and she
brushes the muddy wheel with her dress in
getting out. She expects her servants to do
everything without instructions, and usual v
speaks of them as ''wretcheS." While she
exacts Obsequious respect from them, she
talks before them of their shOrt-cOming. She
gives them needless trouble by her lazineSs
or carelessness, and, while She does nothing
for their comfort, expects them to study hers
constantly. She will thOughtlessly ring them
up 10 the top OF the house TO put on the Goals
which are in the scuttle beside her chair, and
will heedlessly send them three or four
errands when little forethought on her part
would have made one enough. She never
interests herself in their welfare, hardly
knows their names, never spares them when
they are ill. or thinks of how she may save
literature for their leisure reading,
and does not Inquire after the pro-
per Investment of their little savings.
Their wages are always in arrear, and she
habitually tempts their honesty by leaving
her purse or her letters lying about, and yet
frequently suspects them without cause. She
charges them with theft and untruthfulness
on the smallest grounds, and constantly fan
cies that they are looking at her through the
keyhOle or listening behind the door She is
indignant when they give her notice, and
refuses them a character when she finds that
they cannot compel her To give them one
She knows nothing of them after they leave
her, and never concerns herself TO get them
places. She expects them both to be up be
: m In ta
for her at night II she is ILL., they must at
tend her like nurses, rise to her call at all
hours of the night, and work for her in every
respect as If they loved her-Satt1iay Re
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23

SHE Cor HER DRESs.-The Littleton IN.
C.) Republic tells about little six-year old
girl i'm Monroe, who went into a store where
her father was lounging the other day, and
slyly approaching him said: Papa, won't
you buy me new dress?" s.What, buy you
a new dress, Susy?'' Eyes, papa, won't
your" well. I'll see. I'll speak 70 your
mother about It," Elongation to an alarm
ing extent rapidly spread over that little
countenance, but a thought suddenly struck
her and with a smile, she looked up into her
fathers face and said: "Well, papa, If you do
speak to mamma about ii. touch her easy or
she NAV want the new dress herself" The
father at once saw the point, and the ne w
dress was purchased.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23
The TWO TRAVELERs.

-TUss evening sni before m ere.
There lay a lsnd,CsPa gray sui d,ia-
Eietts family seen and twilight skies
And clouds tina; hIi the h'riyon- brim.
ssw-rr va Il that dreamsd,
a waking dresm'-i cannot so,
For every -hape A. real seemed
A those that meet my eve % day
Through Ieahe-- shrubs thu cold viud h.ss.i.
The air was thick with falling snow.
M onvsrd through the frozen mist.
saw weary Traveller 60
Driven Ger that land-csp- bare AMI bleak
BefsTR the Whiriing gusts ni alr,
The snow fake smote his vitharsi cs-rk.
AM gathered on his silver hair.
Yet On h Jared through binding sn.v.
And murmurins o. himself he sid
9 The night l. near, the dsrkRess grows.
Asf higher rise tse drifts l tread.
Deep, ds-r each autumn novsT ts.y bid.
Each tuft 81 green they vh~lTa frsa .ish'
And they who JOurneTc,l BY mr. side
Are lest in the surrounding night
Il loved them. on. No words css tel
The iore that TO ny friends bore
We parted with the al farewell
OF thss- who part 20 meet no more
And I. who fso. this bitter -iad.
Ant Ger these sn"-y billet GT1"p'
frosty couch frozen deep.
As thus ne srOkes thrui OF pam
Shot O. my heart, ] ci.'-Ni nv eyes
Aud when opened then sgais-
started with glad srrpTise.
Twas evening still, and in the ve,t
A Hu-h Of glowing crimson lay,
| saw tie morrow there, and hiHst
That promise Of q glorious dav
The waters, in their CLASSY Sleep
Sh M with the hur- that tingct tbs ssy-
And rugged cliff and barren steep
Glram-d with a brightnr-, from On high
AMI one was there whose lOUrneT lsy
Into the slowly gathering night,
With steady step he held his way
% eT ShadUwy vale aud gieaming height.
I marked his firm though weary tread
The lifted eye, and brow serene,
And saw no shade e doubt oT dread
Pass per that Travellers placed mien.
And others came, their journey DER,
And hadr good night with words Il cheer
8 To morrow We shall meet once more.
lis but the night that parts Us here
And 7 &c he said, .s shall sleep ere long
These fading grams will soon be gone
Shall sleep, e. rise, Refreshed AMI strong,
In the bright day that yet will dawn.
1 heard. watched him a. be went.
4 les-eniug form, until the light
CT evening from the armament
Had passed, aud be vaS lost ~ sight.
AflIaftC- for Fs5fEa q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23
How 60 Reduce Gas Bills.

communication 10 ffltcNyO Tribune
Probable not one person in ten who DAYS
gas bills knows anything about his meter,
much less how to read its record, amt from
personal experience, Il can assure all Sucs
possessed OF such knowledge. Do we bura
our lamps all day, or eNtinguish them, 10
save consumption? BE equally careful with
your gas, and remember that you have
not stopped consumption when you have
simply turned il off at the burner. You can
save one-tenth Of your gas bill by going ga va
night, or morning, when you need no more
hight, ana turning ~ of at the meter; and tn.
greater the length OF pipe in your house the
larger in proportion viii be your saving, for,
no matter how tight and perfect your fittingA
there Is always some Leakage. This you ave
II nothing more. Again, gas IL always con
denslng, and the waste from this cause alone
at times, il beyond calculation, and ian cog
tain qualities. and at certain seasons A.
greater than others,and here, too, the greats
the length OF pipe the more waste.
Now il il expected that every foot OF gas
which passes through the meter into your
service pipes IL registered. i think 4 hear
you exclaim, "Would 10 God IL did no more 80
Ii follows then that IL the gas il shut OF be
registration. Have YOU never heard your
meter giving forth a cracking, swapping
sound ia the daytime, when you were using
no gas? IL is recording this waste. the leak
age and condensation; and you will find IL in
dollars and cents in your next bill. But there
IL still another saving. III each one of those
persons who have complained that their bills
present great irregularities viii learn To read
the meter. and on the day on which the com
panys agent calls 10 take il" take il" al.s
themselves a. soon as he il gone, they will
find, a. many Others have found, a very large
sized African slowed away among the figures
rendered in the cOmpanys bill. i do not
mean To say that there is any dishonesty
But have known very great mistakes TO
happen, and 10 the credit OF the companies
will say that they have always corrected
them when shown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23

INGENIOUS INTERPRETATION.-Mr Tyler,
in his Primitive Culture" thus applies to
this work the law of interpretatio OF myths:
Obviously, the four-and-twenty blackbirds
are fOur-and-twenty hours, and the pie that
with the oyerarching sky. How true q touch
of nature it is, that when the pie is opened
that is, that when the day breaks-the birds
begin to singi The King Is the sun, and his
counting out his money is pouring out the
sunshine, the golden shower of Danae. The
Queen is the moon, and her transparent
honey the moonlight. The maid is the rosy
figured dawn, who rises before the sun, her
master, and hangs out the clouds across the
sky. The particular blackbird which SO tragi-
cally ends the tale by shipping of her nose is
the hour of sunrise"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23

A GooD EGG il alive; the shell Is porous
and the oxygen OF the air goes through Tn .
shell and keeps up kind of respiration. An
egg soon becomes state i'm bad air. or in drg
air charged with carbonie acid. Eggs may
be dried, and made TO retain their goodness
for a long time; or the shell may be Vanished
which excludes the air. and then, If kept in o
moderate temperature, they may be kept
good for years. French poultry raisers are
very successful, and ship millions OF eggs to
England annually. Fresh eggs are moro
transparent at the center, old ones at the top.
Very old ones are not transparent i'm either
place. In water in which one tenth of salt
has been dissolved, good eggs sink and indif-
ferent ones swim. Bad eggs float i'm pure wa
ter. The best eggs are laid by young
eggs are better than If they are allowed 10
eat all sort of food. Eggs are best when
cooked four minutes. This takes away tbs
animal taste so offensive to some and does
not so harden the white or yelk as TO make
them hard 10 digest. An egg IL cooked very
hard is difficult OF digestion, except by those
with stout stomachs; such eggs should be
eaten with bread and masticated very finely
An excellent sandwich can be made with
eggs and brown bread. An egg spread on
toast Is food 1T for a king, a. kings deserve
any better food than anybody else which 10
doubtful. Fried eggs are less wholesom.
than boiled ones. An egg dropped into hot
water Is not only clean and handsome, but
a delicious morsei. Most people spoil the
taste of their eggs by adding pepper and salt
little sweet butter is the best dressing
Eggs contain much phophorous, which Ia sup
posse to be useful TO those who use their
brains much.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23
Frosted Plants,

MI James Hogg. in the December Garden.
has the following, which may be serviceable
TO some of our readers at this season:
Winter is now fairly upon us and we NAV
expect accidents by the frosting of plants in
our greenhouses and dwellings. Scarcely a
winter passes but some of our gardening ac-
quaintances are thus annoyed. During the
winter we sometimes have mild, we might
say warm, rainy days, closing at sunset with
night. But suddenly, 1--WE have sometimes
seen il take place inside of thirty minutes, }
the wind comes around from the westward,
and we have the thermometer at zero or be-
low within an hour. Before an increase ofheat
can be got up in the greenhouse the cold has
got in, and the plants on the front shelf are
frosted, and, If not properly attended TO, will
surely be killed. Frosted plants should be
Immediately watered overhead with colt
water-no matter if il forms ice when
sprinkled on them; that will do no harm.
Heat should be gotten up as soon as possible
i'm the heating apparatus. AS this becomes
warm, sprinkle IL well with water, so as
to get the house full of warm vapor The
vapOr distributed over the house equalizes
the heat, and, condensing on the glass,
forms a thick coating of boar frost. This
frost, by completely closing the chinks and
laps Of the glass, assists i'm keeping out the
cold Continue this, and also continue the
sprinkling or Swinging OF the plants until
the water no longer freezes upon them.
The heat on such an occasion should not
be allowed to exceed so degrees until the sun
heats up the house, when il may be allowed
to rise to 60 or 20 degrees. Frosted plants,
ttluS tTcdtcu, 10 not 10 De kept Snducu
while being thawed out-indee1, we have
seen them injured by being shaded. If frost
happen to the plants in the dwelling house,
pursue the same course of Swinging or thor
Oughly sprinkling them with cold water;
place pans of hot water In the room to vapor-
ize it, and produce moist atmosphere for
on this depends, I'm large measure, the sue
cess of the operation. Plants suddenly
thawed out with great heat, i'm a dry Amos
phre, will be inevitably killed.
This practice will appear strange to some,
= " w "a ha<lu
ul i'm our own experience, and we have often
had occasion TO pursue IL,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23

On CHRISTMAS DAY a little boy, aged
eleven, named Matthews, the son of a work
ing shipwright, applied at the seamen's hos
pital, Greenwich, London, and asked to see
the secretary. On being shown into the office
he bashfully stated that he had been a
patient at the hospital for six weeks in the
summer, and was SO grateful for the kind
treatment he received during his illness tn at
he had saved up all his halfpence to give TO
the hospital. He then handed to Mr. III. G,
Burdett 6s. as Christmas gift from a grate.
full little boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23
MANS Fidelity.

eut apan ~ have lsv>f.
ThrNe whole tass tnrrtkN
Ant ~, like 90 love thru mere
II % prove tsir weather
Time -hsN mott swaF his wtuss
Ere he shall discover
In the rhhir VIDE sarli aeasa
Salh CstiStant laFrg
Rst the pit ~ . - 40 prstss
l. dae zt al - WH.
Love 18th M hal MALI - sfaFs
Hal q suF b--n bst she
Hal q anV h~,a bat -h-
Aud thsi Trrf isr-.
There hat been ~ - & - fhts
dozen isE~u ~ h-r Tisrs
4 NJ JOh- Nf-kls.g
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23

~The Pope has intimated, in an encycli-
cal letter, that a jubilee will be celebrated i'm
1875 Such a solemnity His Holiness con-
siders necessary in the present crisis of
affairs, both as a means of procuring special
grace for the faithful and Divine favor for
the world at large.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23

"An effort is made 90 revive waists fas-
tened behind, as i'm former times, instead OF
in front.
s0Here's a new view OF the Christmas
stocking-The boy says he '-set IL, bat didn't
catch anything"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23

ga surgeon who lodges over a butcher
shop i'm Paris feels much aggrieycd at the an
nouncement on the shop window that kill
ing takes place daily in this establishment"
The doctors considers that his professional
skill Is impugned BY the notice, and resents
IL sufficiently TO 60 10 law about il.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23

THE DOMESTIC CAT.-It is the fashion, we
believe, to entertain strong and unreasonable
preiudices against the domestic cat. Its finest
and most conscientious efforts In the musical
line get only the applause of bootjack and
bottle, and, in short, a generally unkind and
unpleasant feeling exists in regard to it. Let
those who indulge in this malevOlent state of
mind read of this cat of Springfield, Ill, and
blush. The master of this cat is in the habit
of leaving kerosene lamp burning all night
on bracket in the hall. One night, lately.
when all were asleep, the lamp got out of
order, the wick caught fire, and blaZed up
against the very ceiling. There was appa-
rently nothing to prevent the entire destruc-
ton of the house. What did that good old
family cat do? 1t saw all the danger, Jumped
upon the pillow of her master and energeti-
cally paved" his face. OF course he awoke,
saw the lamp, saved his house, and-the cat
is not for sale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23

to have cabs, after all, Tom" he murmured
Afraid So" responded Mr.. Ferrars. "Oh,
by the way, there was a note left here this
morning for you by boy. Don't know who
Mr.. Boggleberry took the epistle, and
glanced eagerly at its contents, his face
purpling with anger, and indignation gleam
Ing In his eyes as he gasped, "Well, thought
anonymous communication begging ME to
b. on my guard, and watch Jones and his
they will again try to quash the st. Benja-
min case. Could anything be more unfOrtu
nate? Perhaps my marriage has got wind
and Jones will presume upon my Anticipated
absence. Was ever such audacity? But, by
JOve, I'll let him have it." Mr.. Boggleberry
accompanied his threat by vigorous thump
upon the table, which set the cups and sau-
GERS dancing, and rising to his feet, seized
his hat, OvercOat, and umbrella. ~ shall go
at once and inquire into it. l can devote an
hour to the parish, and will join you at the
church. 1t won't matter If you all have to
wait short time. dare say there will be
fire In the vestry. If there amt can't help
I. This matter Is more important than my
wedding" And with this Mr.. Boggleberry
trOtted off to maintain the integrity and de-
fend the honor of st. Patrick the Ver1ant.
What dreary walk 1t was! The rain
dripped from his umbrella on to his should
ers, and, the wind being in his face, sensa-
ton of dampness soon became perceptible
about his knees, whilst the hansoms urged on
their wild career through the mud and slush,
and despatched Nicholas to degree fearful
to behold. Surely Ii ever man was a martyr
TO duty BOggleberry was that man. After
his great oratOrical effort of the previous day,
1t was certainly both annoying and disap-
pointing to hear that Jones was not yet in
clined to throw up the sponge.
BOggleoerry would not have been surprised
to find his opponent before him, but upon en-
only member present. A quarter of an hour
passed, and then two or three of BOggieberry's
colleagues struggled in; another quarter OF