The Washington critic., 1886-07-10

the America soup, IS expected TO arrive
Off Marblehead in few days, having
sailed from Liverpool on the 25th in
stant. Her arrival will add to the al
ready great interest taken in yachting
matters in this country. The prepara-
tions for the great race are meanwhile
going on. 1t has been decided that
the three trial runs to determine what
American yacht shall meet the Galatea
will commence on the 10th of next
month. The only yachts that will
take part in those contests will be the
Puritan, the Priscilla, the Atlantic aud
the Mayflower No changes will be
made in the Puritan. The Mayllower
and Atlantic have already undergone
material alterations. which are said to
have bettered them, as they work to
windward, and the owner Of the Pris-
ella has learned something from his
recent contests with the Puritan, for
that vessel will now go to Wilmington,
where lead keel, similar to that of
the Puritan, will be put upon her.
Still, Boston is willing to bet the years
crop of beans on the Puritan.
IT Is REPORTED from Portland, Me-,
that u German, DIR. Brunter, has been
making series of experiments in the
domain of anesthetcs which have re-
suited very successfully. The Doctor,
II is said, first transforms water. gas into
snow and then converts the snow into
crystallized mass resembling ice, but
which is in reality a powerful local
an@sthetic. The simply touching of
this snow-like substance to any member
of the body completely benumbs it, thus
rendering any surgical operation en-
tirely painless. No bad effects follow
the administration of the anesthetic,
except the blistering of the part to
which 1t is applied. BY the use of
ether rgical operations have been
rendered painless, but there is more or
less danger in its application. If the
report from Maine is true another great
discovery is to be placed TO the credit
of the medical world.
THE manager of first-class hotel
would not be justified in devoting one
half his time to examining into the
scholastic requirements of applicants
for walters places, and the other half
to examining the offal barrel to see
what waste occurs in the peeling of po-
tatoes. Neither would President of
the United States be well employed
who should eNpend one half of his
time in devising conundrums with
which to puzzle applicants for clerk
ships, and the other half TO the study
of one.sided statements concerning
eight.lollar pension bills passed in be,
half of obscure and uninhuential
women, whose husbands served the
Nation in time of war. An occasional
mistake may be found, but the hunt
for it takes time that might be better
employed
IT Is related Of one of the nominees
for Congress out in Illinois, that in the
course of an address be delivered to his
fellow countrymen in 1876, he made
the folio wing forcible but somewhat
extraordinary statement: at fell to the
lot of American ingenuity. in the per-
son of Captain James b. Eads, to re-
move from the mouth of the Mississippi
the distractions of three hundred years
back, known as the jettiesP' As this
| gentleman is certain of election to the
| next Congress, we shall nominate him.,
in due time, for the craftsmanship of
the Committee on Rivers and Harbors.
THE trouble lies not so much in the
fact that removals are made without
cause, as in the stupid folly of pre-
tending that they are not. Why do
both parties insist upon trying to hum
bug each other and the public with
pretending to respect the clvll-service
act, which they despise, when they
ought to know that they are thereby
only humbugging themselves? This
is suggested by the impudent lecture of
some postal clerks to Postmaster
General Villas.
IN the case growing out of the seiz
IRE of the Bankers and Merchants
wires by the Western Union Telegraph
Company, Mr.. Conkling made a speech
before Judge Lawrence in New York
yesterday, wherein he pronounced q
scathing denunciation of Jay Gould,
the Western Union and greedy corpora
tions in general. Were Mr.. Conkling
in the Senate he would prove a power
ful hacker to Mr. Beck.
SECRETARY BAYARD's 5 demands upor
the Canadian authorities for the rGleas
Of the schooner Adams having beer
complied with, the owner of the latte
now serves notice on the Collector o
, Customs at Digby that he wants $12,
0OO damages, This puts q new aspec
upon affairs, and now, instead Of Il wal
protracted law suit which Is almos
as much to be dreaded, seems immi
. ueut.
The rejection Of the nomination o
Nj Goode for Solicitor. General ar
| pears 10 have turned wholly on In