New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-25

GENERdL NOTES.
American horses are appearing in London IN
,r,rt Of English carriages Kentucky horse worth
o5 can be transported Liverpool for $780, and then
Ia for $500 one Of the recent steamers carried out
,ortv-fo1r carriage horses for the London market.
The VOYAGE seems agree with Them for thcy gam ~
,gif and are very risky when they reach lard This
N,scb of me American EXPORT trade has been greatly
enlarged during the past year
Certain caunt creatures of the gentler sex,
who hail from Britain and are wintering IN Rome have
taken morbid interest IN the Lambertini Anoneh SUIT
The Courtroom where the preliminary proceedings have
been held is now sort OF dumpng-board, where inc
scandals Of life the Seven Hi'
are collected But whenever motion has been argued
or testimony promised there have been among the spec
tators fashonably ladies' sitting on the benches
with distorted nOstrs, and watching the morning
dump with sweet complacency So strong was the pas
sion for ecclesiastical smudge mat Weehs a ",T
the trial. English ladies engaged gOOu seats III lHo
Courtroom az a round premium
One of Santa Claus's letters has miscarrled.
1t was taken from letterbox in Boston, last
week q am brighteyed little boy" it ran, ana am
trying to good that you Will remember me on Chrs
mas morning I would like very much to have a
bayonet gun. sword, sled, watch ana chalh'
pair OF rubber boots shovel, some books aslaIe
some nice warm stockings little penknife, candy
cane and pair of mitens. hope You will not thmk
am asking for too many things, for do MOI wish to be
thought greedy Mamma send. love and hopes You VII
remember her. too.-lFrom itckie burton Ine Ie,T'
was directed 90 Mr.. santa Claus ana INC sticct' tc
Der and town were not given What Is his posi- Once
adde's. auyhowl So pretty note ought not 10 DC 00N
signed 90 the Dead Letter ONCE
There Is one word that can well he spared
from the statutes Of Maryland. II is the word "le
in the statutory qualifications Of an attorney. The
Court OF Appeals, in refusing The application oil On"es
Taylor q coOred man. for admission TO the par otses
It's action upon old law by which the privileges OF
court practice restricted to free Whde male cuzeh
The constitutional Amendments have not altered the
force of this statute aud the State courts have no right
10 admit either negro woman TO practice. The de-
cisou rests upon the groundwork Of the rulings OF the
United states supreme Court, under the Fourteenth
Amendment and Is evidently sound IN law, atho4SH
false Co the logic Of emancipation The Lesalure har
q plain duty before 10; the word Mhlc Hl.l', o'
word "uale "-bu ought not TO be dispuallous on
tlis. OF all days OF the year!
The picturesque Californian Tevels IN the
smallest Kind of side-show. a house was recently
moved from one end of Nlpa to the other portion OF
The frame being sawn Of and LETT behind for the family
e. occupy temporarily Across the exposed front OF this
shell were stretched several sheets and behnd the cur
tain the family lived moved and had their domestic beng
when the lamp lighted, and the family SAT down To
supper crowd gathered the sidewalk and remained
tler. until there was darkness within. II most in
tciestng series OF shadow pictures The potatoes a.
they passed into the mouths looked ON the screen Ike
pumpkins pitchforked into hay-mows, and the spoons
and forks enlarged a. 10 represent baseball
finished their supper and went 90 bcd; utterly uhcHu
scion, that they had been Illustrating BrObdusnag iOl
tie benefit of their ueighbors.
Mr.. Lavard has made a remarkable collec-
ton of stern antiquities. II consists chiefly of series
Of bronze architectural ornaments which Of old formed
part u the decorations Of the palace Of one OF the
sovereicus Of Armenia Tie objects include curou,
bronze panel which represents house palace, with
casteattd battements similar TO those figured on the
Assvriau bas-rel efs, as well as other fragments
bronze medal Of a winged and humaI-headed bull claims
possibly the chief place Of interest, being OF very me
bronze and presenting an those conventional arrange
tuts OF hair which well known in the larger stone
Assvrau sculptures The human face Of this bull is
missing aud probable that it was originally OF gold
cementel into the bulk OF tho bronze by layer Of btu
men This figure has arms folded the head, and
hands which clasp each other The date Of these objects
is approximately asceraincd 70 be B. C. 72l. The city
OF Vau from which the collection comes was III existence
cary as the lOth cent urN before ii7l Inc
of Van would to have once held sway beHohd tht
Armenian ranges southwark. and IN one tuunpha tex
Of kim Argrslls. Babylon i, mentioned a uioutarJ
1t was the people of Mennai, or the Kingdom OF Van
who with the NJ DIES aud Gnmerean', oVe'thTtW Nlhe-
ven b. C. GO9. and put al end 20 tue Assyrlu Empire
ESSAYS on the Almighty Dollar continue
l. appear the London journals apropos OF an Amer
can muionaire's opening the Winters festivities at
Paris The Globe seriously remarks that the United
States have developed what Dr. Johnson calls the poeu-
TALLY Of growing rich beyond the dreams Of avarce
II concludes that the Americ in quite comfoIts-
BILE circumstances nOtwi LsaDdug the hard times. A
T. Stewart the dry goods man; John Jacob Aston lsic)
the Mauhattanese Duke of Westminster, and Commodore
Vanderbilt the railway king each died worth roughly
speakne $780, 600 real and personal estate. In
Bank of England paTance this Is s2OOOOOOO sterling
and III another generation such fortune viii be looked
upon by Americans as o flea bite. There al eaiy
exists Californian whose dinner menus it is said are
printed on thin sheets OF gold, and whose wealth is III
popular belief equal having bought mp the pecunous
trio u. advered TO- When the United states shall have
emerged from IA present hard times ana the golden
Inowbau OF American capital shall be once more set
rolling its gathering dimensions viii be awful TO
template What Victor Hugo calls the magnificent hos
uiIaity Paris j. open % tine countrTmen and
count women OF Washington, and magnhcenty do the
rouutrymcn and cOuntIywOmen OF Washington repay
the magnificent hospitality OF Paris" The English
mor derives consolation however from the lup,es in
Tho French OF the American bOnaires VINO have been
known 10 mWmur, " COmpIeuny none VI your demmed
ccuteems"