The Washington critic., 1890-04-21

practice of men, when making love"
to do so but to one woman Mt time.
Mrs. Leslie says she despairs of Con
vincing man that there are about him
points susceptible of improvement"
We agree with her view of mans gen
eral iDcorrigibility. But the point to
which she has referred does not come
within its scope. He simply doesn't
do It,
IT IL 4 STRANGE CIRCUMsTANCE yet
it is nevertheless true. that some Of the
hard fights Of the late war are already
comparatively forgotten. Few now,
except those who participated in the
battle, remember the victory gained by
General Schofle d over Hool OF Frank
lin, Tenn, in November, 1864. Yet 1t
was ono of the most fiercely contested
battles of the war. General Sohofi I'D
was moving toward Nashville to re-
inforce Thomas, when Hood attempted
to prevent him. Splendid fighting
qualities were shown on both sides, and
the memory of the battle has been re-
Gently revived by DIR, II. NJ. Fieli's
description of It lin his Bright Skies
and Dark Shadows. as told on the
spot by Confederate who was in the
fight.
TODAY MUHAT HALsTEAD, late of
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, as
sumes editorial control of the Brooklyn
Standard Union, with view to make
it great and triumphant Republican
organ. The "Field Marshal's' recent
successes in Ohio have not been
specially conspicuous, but no one
doubts that If his discretion and temper
were equal to his ability the Standard
Union would speedily be found in the
front rank of influential newspapers,
and the cause of Republicanism would
receive substantial aid from Mr.. Hal
stead's work in Brooklyn.
The SPLENDID reception accorded on
Saturday to Stanley, the explorer. at
Brussels, by the Belgians and King
Leopold, suggests that the great traveller
knows as much about the extreme ex-
periences of human life as any man
living. Fancy man struggling for
months and years with the discomforts
and dangers of an African jungle and
being then transferred to the luxury of a
kings palace and the pomp of a royal
reception.
THE PRESIDENT of the French Re
public has been successfully swinging
round the circle" He now proposes to
visit Corsica and win the hearts of the
vendetta-loving but Bonapartist island
err. So it is already given out that it
was the Presidents famous grandfather,
M. Carnot, that had Bonaparte ap-
pointed general of the army of Italy.
II is very evident that President Carnot
knows thing or two about practical
politics.
The FRENCH GOVERNMENT is said to
have successfully tried torpedo boat
that can remain under water twenty
four hours and be handled during that
time with perfect ease. If any dis
covery, even approaching to this has
been made, 1t will at once appear that
iron-clad fleets have had their day, for
not even the largest cruiser would be
safe in the neighborhood of a torpedo
boat that could be easily aud definitely
sailed in the water beneath her.
THE New York Worlds practical re-
traction yesterday of the infamous So
called interview with ex. President
Cleveland, which it had published,
brings into prominent notice the sheer
and utter indecency of some of the
methods of metropolitan journalism.
The World, in effect, confesses itself q
"fakir," and the unmitigated malignity
of the New York Sun, when In oppo-
sitioD, is a disease of long standing.
THE STATEMENT is going the rounds
that Grants personal memoirs no longer
command remunerative sale, probably
because the market has been glutted.
n revival OF Grant literature Is prom
ised for next year. however, when Mrs.
Grant will publish the memoirs of her
husband from her standpoint.
IT is SAID THAT the bill for the census
enumeration of the Chinese was de-
feated in the Senate because the Chi
nese look 80 much alike that Its pro.
visions could not be successfully carried
out except upon the sole condition that
Speaker Reed should do the counting.
REFERRrNG TO THE separation of
Shortstop Ward from his wife, known
on the stage as Helen Dauvray, some
one has been clever enough to remark
that the noted baseballist carries his
professional aptitude into the matrimo-