The Washington critic., 1886-09-04

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Henry Rowland, distinguished scicn.
tist of Johns Hopkins University, said
he thought motors were the most i'm.
portant auxiliary for incandescent
lighting, and that they will solve the
problem Of day lighting. The more
thoroughly is the study Of electricity
mastered the more wonderful are
found the results ohtlinable from that
power, which isuo longer an uninleI,i.
gible mystery.
Mn PARNHLL does not intend, If hr
can help it, to allow the English Gov.
ernment to go on with cyiclions au
coercion in Ireland In the meantime
giving iimsy promises that the coudi-
ton of that country will receive Pdrla.
mentary attention next February. lie
has, by his usual excellent parliament.
ary tactics, in the discussion of the
question of precedence for The supply
bill, gained the Governments consent
to his INTRODUCING % bl'ltoallow house.
holders to apply to the courts ta dt
rents. lie desires evidently to quiet
as much as possible the bad feeling in
Ireland which is brought about by
evictions, which the Government re
lies upon as an excuse for the coer
Give policy it intends to strenuously
enforce. Mr.. Parnell's bill would be n
great measure Of relief to the poor ten
ants, and its adoption would work no
real harm to any one except in a pollt-
iCal sense. 1t is the latter considera-
tion which will cause the Conservatives
TO reject it, but Mr.. Parnell will have
gained a point by making it even
palmer than it now is that the Govern.
ment wants disturbances in Ireland in
order to argue therefrom that ireland
is not competent to rule herself.
Mr.. DION BoUCICAULT is now on his
last visit TO England The last visits
of theatrical people are very uncertain
quantities in this life but we can be-
lieve Mr.. Boucicault when he makes
the statement referred to, for he eX-
claims of England that he hates her
"infernal fogs, the rain and cold" He
also "lilles America better than any
place in the world" We infer from
this that Mr. Boucicault expects to con
tinuc in the show business in this
country successfully for some years
yet. We are moi, therefore, at all
| fattored by his expressed preference
| for us. If he were in this country and
intended to go to England and live and
act there lie would have said equally
as uncomplimcLtr things about us as
he says about England, and would
have given the latter equally as good a
scnd.ciI as lie gives the United States
of America. You can very safely
| judge an actors love for any country
by the amount of the box receipts of
his performances in that country. Mrs.
Langtry and Miss Bornhardt, for in
stance, dearly love the United States,
while our Mollie Anderson dearly loves
| England and her lords and ladies. Our
Mollie's bank account swells more
perceptibly in London than it does in
| the United States.
SECURELY housed over in the Ma,
| tional Museum building the members
of the Fish Commission say there is no
such thing as sea serpent, and that
the hundreds OF people who have seen
the monster along the coast and cavort.
ing in the Hudson River have really
not seen it at all. They admit, how
ever, that in ages past a festive marine
inhabitant of that character was quite
prevalent. Between the two we are
disposed to think that the numerous
| eye-witnesses of the monster have the
bulge on the scientific experts, and that
it will not be long before our friends
Of the Fish Commission will be com
PEELED to admit that there is at least
one back.number oceanic reptile.
THE book of political "reminiscences
now in course of preparation by Gen
eral Brady, late Second Assistant Post
master. General, will doubtless prove a
sensation. General Brady knows a
good deal about the history of the
times in which he occupied a promi-
nent public position, and he has a
faculty of expressing what he knows
in the strongest kind of English. Many
persons who were prominent as polit-
iCal leaders about the same time are
naturally in the anxious seat to know
what's coming and who's going to be
hit
OyR esteemed contemporary, the
Baltimore Amcfica1s jumped right in
and went to work for the relief OF
the Charleston sufferers. 1t headed II,
subscription list with its own contribu
tion cf $500, and up to last night had
sent to Charleston the sum of 81 800
This Is excellent work. The Americai
is a stOunch Republican newspaper
and what IL IS doing shows plainly
that politics have nothing to do with
the cause of humanity In this country
THE President went of into tht
wilderness and eXilcd himself outsid
the bounds of civilization for four days
1t may not be that the country was al
shaken up by his absence, but vi
doubt II Mr.. Cleveland should take an,
more such risks. The first thing h
knows the Republicans will have
plank in their platforms charging tn
late earthquake to the carelessness of
Democratic administration.