The Washington critic., 1890-05-07
thing is true of what is told of Madam
Blavatsky's occult quality and powers.

thing is true of what is told of Madam
Blavatsky's occult quality and powers
THE FACT THAT the Kemmler case is
at last before the Supreme Court of the
United States gives assurance that the
extraordinary struggle of an electric
company to prevent the use of its ma
chimes for eXecutional purposes will
soon be terminated. In the whole
business there has been no sentiment In
favor of Kemmlcr, who has been
proved to be an utterly unworthy, I'M
mitigatcd and brutali2ed villain. The
legal action simply resolves itself Into a
question of finance, with which the
aforesaid electric company is most
deeply concerned.
Mr.. HAHWsoN c. FIsKE, the recent
and latest husband of Minnie Maddern,
is trying TO naugurate movement for
the playing of the "Star Spangled Ban
ucr at the close of every theatrical per-
Torrance. Many of the theatres of
New York have signfied their accept
ance Of the proposition. If New York
audiences are in any respect like Wash
ington audiences the national air will
have to be played very rapidly to be
recognized before the curtain goes
down. Our people as rule do not
wait for pOSi.m0rtem music.
\ MEMORIAL FROM Philadelphia
delegation was last week presented to
Congress asking for the establishment Of
line of steamers to the west coast of
Africa. Though American traffic with
the Dark Continent is as yet insignii-
can't and has hitherto been confined to
rum and missionaries, there seems to be
an awakening perception out to the fact
that this country may have some little
interest in the dawning development of
the Congo region and of equatorial
Africa.
NoTwITHsrANDING the lapse of Emin
Pasha, it is understood that the British
East African Company has succeeded
through its agent, Mr.. Jackson, in
placing the whole Uganda country and
the territory contiguous to the Victoria
Nyanza under British protection. This
is supposed to assure to Great Britain
an ascendancy in the struggle for
supremacy in Africa, That region will
therefore be speedily brought under
civilizing influences of the usual British
sort.
IT HAS BEEN suggested that that
nervy, muscular and indefatigable in
ventor, Mr.. Edison, be called upon to
construct a table that shall no longer
groan under the weight of the good
things heaped upon it. 1t is we'll
known that groaning has been the
immemoIial habit of banquet tables,
and the idea begins to prevail that this
gloan at a feast is superfluous.
IN THE RECENT municipal elections of
Paris, where the Boulangists endeavored
TO make good showing in opposing
! government candidates, the victory of
the government was in every way com
| plete. Returns showed the election OF
only two Boulangists, thirteen Mon.
archists and sixty five Republicans.
That would seem to be sufficiently con.
elusive.
TIE TENTH international Medical
l,n xrt
August. The special features are to be
improved instruments, food prepara'
lions and models of hospitals. Year by
year these conventions show the amount
of thought and study which is given
by scientists to the alleviation of pain
and suffering.
IT Is STRANGE that Brother Halstead
of the Brooklyn Standard Union should
dare to rake up the past so recklessly
The man who wrote the letter to Chase
proposing the assassination of Lincolr
and Grant, and afterwards in 1872 har
! pooned Blaine's Presidential aspirations
runs considerable risk in awakening th,
echoes of memory
WHEN SENATOR TELLER denounce
the compromise silver bill as "a bait o
the gold bugs it is suggested that tn,
most effective argument that the Sen
ator could urge in the circumstance
woIld be Persian insect powder.
y BALTIMORE paper remarks that tn
Presbyterians of to-day are afraid to ac
cept the logical conclusions of Calvin
ism. But logical conclusions are dread
full things anyway without any referenc
to Calvinism
THE OPINION is beginning to prevail
in New York that the present is not
congenial time for politicians TO max
gifts to god children.
A MACHINE FOR indicating the pres
ence of shoal water has been invented
II is just in time for the River an,
Harbor Committee.
REFERRING TO MAYOR GRANT ant
Sheriff Crocker some irreverent contem
porary suggests that they have Floss,
times
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