The Evening critic., 1883-02-15

THE Salvation Army does not prove a
success in this land of revivals
ENGLISH physicians say that the habit
of drinking tea at and between meals rem
ders people peculiarly liable to neuralgia.
No reference is had to Congressional "cod
tea
THE six anthracite mine inspectors of
Pennsylvania report that there were, in
1850, 800 miners killed and 1,O1i injured ia
the anthracite region while engaged in the
peaceful pursuit Of mining coal
Now that Vignaux, the French cham
pion. has signed articles to come to this
country and take part in the billiard
events Of the year, the first OF which is the
tournament at Chicago beginning on March
90 billiards viii doubtless have boom.
THE EASE with which sane people can be
incarcerated in insane asylums and the diff
fculties they experience in their attempts
TO get out are matters well worthy the at
tention Of State Legislatures New York
and Pennsylvania seem to lead in this dis
graceful state of affairs.
ANOTHER place where stealing public
money has been going on is the Pottsville,
Pa, almshouse. Many thousands Of dol
lars, spent ostensibly for outdoor relief of
the poor went to reward personal friends
Of the commissioners and to make political
capital. Orders for whisky aud cigars often
amounted to 5000 in day.
Mr.. DE BELLvILLE, an actor, engaged at
the Union Square Theatre, New York, is al
together too sensitive. His wife is suing
him for divorce and alimony, and Mr. De
Bellyille declines TO appear on the stage
during the continuance of his legal and
marital complications. These trihing
things would make him so interesting to
nearly half of his audience.
THE Board of Education of the city of
New York having abolished colored schools
in favor of mixed schools, the colored peo-
pie very naturally and properly demand
that competent colored teachers shall not
be debarred from teaching in the mixed
schools ON account of their color Consid-
cradle interest is manifested in the matter
by the friends of education in that city.
THE word "masher" is indigenous in
this country. Everybody knows that it
describes a man who boasts of and gloiies
in his ability to win the admiration of
women, !. e., to mash " them. "Mashers "
have long been plentiful in London, but
they had to wait for America to supply
name for the beast. The Truth thus hap
PLY describes the London "masher:''
He is a fungus, not an honest mushroom,
or even respectable toadstool, but a wet,
spongy and unwholesome emanation from o
rotten and poisonous soil. Rldiculously
overdressed, starched up to the very eyellds,
smothered like girl In jewelry, deckei out
with flowers like q footman, idiotic In counte-
nance, and sparse IN conversation, with a
knobbed stick to suck, he has become an OBJ
served form of social cold veal.
THE insular preiudices of England are
very strong, and they were never displayed
in a greater degree than in opposing the
introduction of street railways into that
country. They were in use in this country
for years before John Bulls bullheaded OBJ
stinacy would permit him to profit by the
bloody Yankee invention, you know.
Even then he gave them new name,
tramways. Since they gained foothold in
the tight little isle their progress has been
reasonably rapid. Here are some statistics :
In 1876 there were but 90 miles open for
traffic; In June, 1882, 1t was Al, or nearly
five times as much, The total number OF
passengers carried, which was S9,4i2 Jos In
1873, was 1s7,S75,779 In 1ss2-that is, 1t had
more than doubled; and the capital expended
had risen between 1876 and 1882 from e1,-
250,000 to 26,500,000. In the United King
dom the year ending June 80, 1882, no fewer
than 257, 100000 passengers were conveyed,
and the receipts amounted TO &l,070,350.
THE Hon. Mr.. O'Donnell, member OF
Parliament for Dungarven, has written to
the London Times complaining that while
informers and paid witnesses are allowed
every opportunity of putting their stories
together and to improve their memory by
consulting each other, the Irish prisoners
in Kilmainham Jail are kept in solitary
confinement and hindered from producing
evidence for their defense.
Commenting on this statement the New
York World says
MIR. o'Donnells complaint, outlined by our
cable dispatches, that the Irish prisoners are
Kindred from producing evidence for their
defense, need not throw any OF our esteemed
contemporaries into spasms of Indignation,
for similar hindrances have been rife on this
side of the Atlantic. For Instance, Colonel
lngersoll and other counsel representing the
star'Route defendants have repeatedly com
piained that the counsel could not obtain ex-
hiDlt evidence from the departments. Last
week Mr. Fullerton, before the State Prison
investigating Committee, testified to facts
showing that he was not allowed on many
occasions 10 confer alone with his client, and
yesterday Counsellor Wernberg, OF Brooklyn,
was obliged to Issue a habeRs corpus for the
purpose OF bringing clients out OF the iaIl
In order to confer with them
as he had been forbidden that rlght by
theiailers. And 1t Is really to be hoped thai
Judge Lawson at Dublin, In explanation Of thC
hindrances Mr.. O'Donnel speaks Of, Will MOI
cite these American precedents, especially n,
they are against constitutional safeguards
while in Ireland only the procedures OF al
unwrltten constitution control the rights o
prisoners.
HAVE the powers at Washington becom
ashamed OF the Presidents nag already?
they have It's healthy sign. We don't nee,
any Presidents nag In this country. Tho oil
stars and stripes make good enough nag 10
anybody to sail under, and there Is no need n
anything else to protect the greatest or tn
humbIest citizen. Youngstown NeUs-Regi}tsr
A great deal of slush similar to the aboy