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Evening Star, Issue 3719, 23 January 1875, Page 2

A histronic individual, who bad heard a good deal about the “ theatre of war, 1 ' that the back seats must be very desirable. An Indianapolis fireman claims the champion ship in melon-eating. In five hours and threequarters he ate 17| water melons, and, stranger still—he lives to'tell the talc. A True Lady.—Beauty and style are not the surest passports to respectability—some of the noblest specimens of woma.ubopd that tho world bus ever seen have presented the plainest and most unprepossessing appearance A woman * worth is .to he cstimatpd by the real goodness of her heart, tho crcntness of her soul, and the purity and sweetness of her character; and a woman with a kindly disposition and well-balanced temper is both lovely ami attractive, he her face ever so plain and hj« r figure ever so homely ; she makes the best of wives, and the truest of mothers. She has a higher purpose in living than the beautiful yet vain and supercilious woman who has no higher ambition than to flaunt her finery on the street, or to gratify her inordinate vanity by extracting natteryuna praise from society whose compliBJeute are as as they ape insincere.