New-York tribune., 1885-08-09
PiRIS GOSSIP.

GENERAL CRANT-MR. STEAVS SCANDAL
rvRou TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT THE TRinrNE.
| PARIS. July 20.
Itbardly conld be expec ed that justice would be
douo by tae Paris press to General Grant 10 the
sketches of his life OF which his death has been tie
occasion. The alscrty with which he rccog-
nized the Third Republic did not mako the
French conione his imagined offence against
them IN congratulating the Germans on thcn
victories in 1870. heard General Grant say that
nothing could have beon more formally official than
his compliments. He was painfully surprised When
he found that Victor Hugo was full Of resentment
oo inst him and told soi Americans that he hoped
he would not call upon him. because his presence
in his housc would be disagree iblc. and the laws o,
hospiaity would not admit of his closing his door
against him. never saw the poct 80 indignant
about an gthing at attempt made BY an Amer
,can 10 explain away General Grants " sin agains;
civilization to quote Victor Hugo. The ex-Presi
dent of the United States hal not
The qualities which take in France.
He was taciturn and had not
brilliant; quality. The solid qualities only showed
themselves under the sevcrcst pressure. when they
stood the hardest tests. In general company Grant,
when he was here. looked i'll AZ ease. But whoa
thero were people IN the room who wcre worth
noting his observant faculties came into
the ewes of any man than in his
at soircc at the late NJ Emile de Girardin's. when
he brought them to bear on Ganbetta. Leon Re-
uault. Mener Spnllcr. Wadeck-Rousssan. Bonnat,
Carous Duran, and other celebrities invted 20
meet him. few evenings iatcr was in his SO
ciety at the house Of an English merchant who had
known him IN America Somebody spoke OF the
want OF durable enthusiasm the French charac-
ter. and callei ita straw famo which barnt ont
at once the fuel on which IL fed. 81
guess" observed Grant. quietly thas
the straw is now pretty damp aud that nobody VIII
get II TO light before ii gives out lot OF siiocatiny
smoke" This was the conclusion that he had come 10
al Girardin's where he saw the whole Opporfunist
party There has indeed been deal OF smoke put
1879. Ga,nbetta had both flame aud smoke hiers
was a clear brilliant fire. C!encnceau also blazes
publican, and for that matter Orleanist and Bona
partist political leaders, with their newspaper Or
gans are straw that being pretty damp gives out
dense, sutlocating smoke
II js impossible to overlook the gigantic circula-
ton which the revelations OF The iaH MdH Gazette
command here. The publicity they have attained
is due to multiple causes OF which certainly is
taste for pruriency Inc others are press esa der
Joseph surfaceism of wealthy Englishmen.
| of about 400, 900 in London. Here the issue of
them has been in millions, and the supply Is not
vet equal to the demand. Ihey come out Ill gratis
suppiements. in newspaper premiums, by them
selves on paper. tho cheapnesso OF which on
ables the publisher to sell them for five centlmes,
as huilIetons, and IN serials. never saw anything
like the avIdity with which they have been bought
Tho hawkers who bawled them on the old Boulc-
wards have extended their field Of operations to the
whole city and suburbs. In the " Moral Order
cansed. The prestige of the British anstOcracy ~
ruined In France At the same time tho ParIsians,
as Pastor Kirsch vehementIv insists have no right
IN cry ont AGAINST the British Babylon without
ciothing themselves IN sackcloth and putting ashes