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Show HIS CRITICISM WAS AT FAULT English General Had Much to Learn TOti of tbe Geography of the United States. The European has grown so aecus- iKf?'- tomed to sneering at the American for mi Jj$ft his Ignorance of European affairs. WxFs especially since the outbreak of the , , war, that we have grown to take the K''f-A ! 3nub submissively, with never a Vs I thought of the even more gross ignor- fc-rj: ' ance of things American on the part Rv$ of Europeans. V.;;" Yet that such ignorance Is common .; ;.,-; In Europe, even among the educated H and military classes, there is no doubt. V H The elder Charles Francis Adams, who E.;. I was United States minister to Great '6 -;' I Britain during the Civil war. used to !E i ii r loiinwinp exjjenenco mm a k . . - prominent Englishman: ?'-Late ?'-Late in July. 1863. there being no " cable then laid under the Atlantic, a K I steamer from New York brought to r" the American legation in London dls- L,.. , patches announcing the fall of Vicks- K' ' - f burg and Lee's repulse at Gettysburg K on tbe same day. A few evenlncs m later I held a reception In honor zz W. 1 1 the double victory, inviting all the r prominent figures of English official ' society. L-' i Among th guests was MaJ. Gen. W) I j Garnet Wolseley, afterward command- B'" 1 er In chief of the British army. After congratulating me upon the dnal sue- ' I , cess of the Union arms, he added: if "Yet T think your generals made a I very serious blunder. Mr Adams." r "In what respect ," I asked, some- - I what mystified: for It had seemed to j- me that Grant, at Yicksburg, and E Meade at Gettysburg, had done about I all there was to be done. T "Why, in resting upon their arms." 8 ! explained General Wolseley. 'in or- R der to make the two victories com- K J plete. General Grant should have IE I I joined his forces with those of Meade f . ! that night and. by daylight the next U. j morning, fallen upon the remnants of ; Lee's army and crushed It." 1 Though sorely tempted, T considered I my position as a minister and re- trained from calling the doughty gen- k eral's attention to the fact that Yicks- burg and Gettysburg are a thousand f- miles apart! Wild Horses. True w ild horses, intractable and '" i terrified in man's presence, have been If. I the. subject of some Interesting ex- I periments. It was long believed that t- true wild horses with unbroken wild I. ancestrv were extinct, but the animals jg- 'discovered by Prjevalskl in the Gobi ;E " desert. In Asia, have been pronounced g- 1 by Russian naturalists wild horses of i' a distinct kind, with no relationship f ' to the ass. A few years ago about I thirty of the horses were captured. fa They were mere co'ts, most of which 6-hav 6-hav e grow n to maturity In Russia, but Is a few were taken to the estate of the I duke of Bedford in England. They I. have developed from their shaggy and I awkward youth Into animals of good jit" appearance. They have some resent- blance to the domestic horse, with the F : : same neigh and frightened snort, but 1 all attempts to tame them and make t '.hcn useful have failed, and they are t stl" badly frightened when any per- I wn comes within several rods of 18. ' , 'nem. Efforts of tbe Mongolians to I ame the horses have been equally un- L T i.ecessful t' oo lieet ileal machinery has been In- vented to reset the pins In bowling alleys. C |