The Washington critic., 1886-07-29


| which will meet next week. In fact,
it is only by securing a very substantial
support from the ranks of those gentle
men that the new government can expect
any prolonged lease of life, and 1t does
not look, from the eunwillingness Of the
leading LIBERAL Unionists to go into a
Conservative cabinet, that the scheme
of coalition would work well. Another
| evidence of the weakness of the Con
servativc government is the selection of
such man as Lord Randolph Churchill
to be Chancellor of the Exchequcr and
leader of that party in the House
Opposed to him will be Mr.. Gladstone
as the leader of the opposition. The
contrast of these two leaders is sufficient
to show the weakness of the govern.
mcnt. Then Mr.. Gladstone has back
of him the Nationalist, and except on
one subject will have the support of
the Liberal Unionlsts. The opposition
will then be one of the most powerful
ever seen in the House. 1t will practi.
cally be the government itself Mr..
Gladstone, though recently defeated, is
much more to be envied than Lord
Salisbury, the recently victorious.
Few PEOPLE have any idea of the
extent Of a two or three-inch rainfall
and great many think it doesn't
amount to much. They have often
seen the water six inches deep in n
gutter or foot deep in a cellar; so that
q little three inch shower is looked upon
as very insignificant affair. Let's
| look at the &guros moment. BY an
easy mathematical calculation it may he
demonstrated that rain fall of three
inches, or rather of three aud a quarter
inches, as now officially reported for
| Monday night last, is equivalent to
about IS, $50 gallons to the square acre,
or 5G4S0, 600 gallons to the square
mile-enough to fill 1.4l2,0 900 forty
gallon barrels. Estimating the weight
of this enormous rainfall at the old,
accepted rate of pint to pound, we
find 1t to be 225, ,02O tons, or almost
three times the weight of the Washing.
ton Monument. This to single square
mile, remember. Those who may feel
further interest in the matter can,
without great difficulty, approximate
the number of barrels and tons of water
which fell in the ten miles square of
the original District of Columbia, and
before they get through ciphering they
three and a quarter inch rainfall is q
decidedly wet and an amazingly heavy
one. The Prohibitionists may Ger.
tainly conclude that Providence is on
their side.
Mr.. TILDEN, writing about tho
apathy of Congress on the subject OF
providing competent coast defenses fol
the country, says "it contrasts with the
rivalry which is so conspicuous to in
sist on our taking a high tone toward
foreign nations on every occasion OF
Difference between them and u.s. Il
certainly does. The very Members Of
Congress, who talk most about nationa
dignity and honor and are always de
manding a scream from the American
eagle when we have any little differ
enees with foreign power, are thu
very ones who refuse to vote money TO,
the purpose of backing up the scream
If they want the United States t,
be as spunky in maintaining he
rights and in insisting upon tn,
difference due to the American eagl
let them do their duty and give th,
Government something more tangible
than words to depend upon in al
emergency.
IT is said that the reports of peopl
dying promiscuously in Labrador oI
starvation are, in the main, wholly
without foundation, and emanate from
the brain of an enterprising Canadian
| who is now collecting funds for the re
, lief of his supposed to be starving con
, stituents. This thrifty individual is ais
E the probable author of the repor
, brought by telegraph oday that al
, army Of one thousand polar bears
| driven south by hunger, are now gnaw
ing the bones of the natives and devastat
| ing an already devastated country. Tn
Queen of Great Britain evidently ha
n subject on this side of the water who
, if not cut off in his prime, will becom
: as great and startling novelist as tn
. lamented Charles Reade.
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SECRETARY ANDERSON, Hallet XII
bourn and +. w, Fox were before tn
joint Library Committee this mornin
in behalf of the Permanent Exhibitio
project The unanimous action Of tn
joint committee is expressed in pre-
amble and resolution offered by Senate
= Hoar in the Senate to-day, which wi
. be found in our Congressional proceed
ings. A similar report for the lIous
was also adopted, but substituting tn
Speaker in place of the President c
> the Senate so that if the resolutio
i passes both branches joint speci'
- committee will be formed, and if
only passes one branch the committC
. appointed from that body is authorize
to act.
8 A TERRE HAUTE special says {
J; Editor Cutting, who appears to hay
q had somewhat checkered journa
ii istic career, that he is "a tough Gu
toner" This probably accounts fl
q his being in Jail. A Toledo speci
If says che isn't worth fighting over,
). and this may account for the apparcr
X indifference OF the State Departme