New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-16
GENERAL NOTES.


pieces of tapestry the Vatican shall be collected and
arranged in chronological order for exhibition. It
that for the Kings Of France
toned TO send every year piece OF Gobens tapestry
| to the reignng Pope, and the manufactures at
Flanders in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries also
contributed their share il may be imagined what large
quantity has been accumulated The welltnown tapes
tics eTse1d IN fanGrG from eeieSrassd
| have been previously exhibited.
! What is popularity known IN America az the
fraud YELL" Is in Paris a signal for pstoshots IN
! shady corner Another duel has been fought in Yer.
| saies. this time between Count Mae, member of
the Right and NJ Laisant Of the Left. The origin Of
! the quarrel was that the former applied the word
fraud TO the action OF the Electoral Committee OF
| Inquiry Count Maille was slightly wounded NJ. Paul
de Cssa gnac the hero French duelists, also made
some rather damaging reflections on the Committee in
question the same day but ne managed to avoid en-
| DrOllmg his hands IN aLOther duel
Merry times there will be at the ODD Regi-
meut ArmOry. in FOurteenth-st, to-day The childrens
hours Will be between and O'Clock in the afternoon,
and The entertainment viii present such varied attrac
lions as music flowers, refreshments, sleghtOfhand
and an oid-fashoned grab-bag for the Ii tic In
the evening the annual coffee party Of the ladies'
Association will call together the friends and we'll
| wishcrs OF the Hahnemanp Hospital. From to IL
| o'clock there will be pleasant company flowers, re-
freshments music and dancing. The object OF the asso-
citation is to raise money for the benefit OF the new
ground upon which it stands and the building itself are
entirely free from debt, so that every ticket sold
will directly benefit some sick person. Inc ladies' VINO
have planned these charming entertanm1ents viii %
clad To at the armOry this morning. bouquets
cut flowers, and plants. rs we'll as cakes Tea, cohee
| sugar, cream, or money.
| A millionaire has his sorrows as well as
pauper Dennis Mccarthy, Of Limerick. has recently es
ablished his claim to an fortune which rela
tive in India acquired Relations, friends, we-wshers
strangers and beggars have opened with
him. He receives from 500 TO 600 letters day. and
employs a stenographer and a secretary to answer
them He is harassed with appeals in behalf OF schools
churches hospitals, missions asyums and benevolent
enterprises mishaps and griefs the failures and
| needs OF man. woman and child, condded to lin
with tears prayers ana compliments lady who is en-
gagged to an admiral tells HIM chat there hitch in the
settlements and that loan Of $4,000 will make two
loving hearts beat Another lady who cOnfesses
that she is indeed sends him her photograph
aud threatens 20 commit suicide II he fails 10 lDeOse
check for $3.50 by tue next mall AiaeEl poor Dehhis
wrenohed hundred times a day. Moral: Blessed
they who have nothing for they have no begging letters
to answer.
The omnibus drivers on Broadway will have
to brush up their mathematics If they are TO keep
abreast with this scientific age Mr. Bixo, president Of
the Paris Omnibus Company, has published treatise
horse-eeding which not only the absruse maxims OF
chemistry applied to the economy OF the stable but
formulas given for calculating by algebra the no
or different sorts given uHefent
sorts OF The writer makes thrae separate cate
gories First. the animals which do not leave their
stalls any purpose secondly those which go out but
do not draw any carriage; and finally those which
engaged in work Of kind. Mr. Bixo's experiments
The London Globe states have been tried upon 900
omnibus horses. and important Iesults have been
reached All food given to horses is OF two kinds the
azotlc which is proper alimeutary purposes
and the carbonc which to be used when work has to
be done In proportion less work is de-
manded OF the horse ought the proportion OF the car
bouic to predominant the azOtc But the real test
is not much carbon OF azotc elements as the sub
stance called proteine. Mr. BlXio appends to his work
table by which the presence OF protenOu elements can
be estimated to nicely and with the table before them
their by applying to these calculations set prin
ciple OF alsebralcal science.
The second article in The EOrtngkty Rerielc
on The Political Adventures of Lord BeacOnsed" IS
as scathng and cauStic review OF that statesmans
career as was the first The author contends that the
Premers character in the situation which he holds is
danger and defiance to England, and threat TO the
peace the world lie arms that at present the doe
rne of the personal power loudly proclaimed and m
attempt being made TO revive the pretensions which
George I'll strOye unsuceessfuly to assert These as
symptoms Osteutatousy set forth in cOurtierlks
memoirs appearing under the royal sanction and in po
litcal manllestoes OF important Conservative organs
They III IN with doctrines which Lord Beaeonsfeld
has prossed with steadness than any other OF ms
nuctuating opinions Cardinal Wosey wrote: Ego et
rex meus" Lord BearOnsdeld according 10 the ausnor
makes very approach to q similar egotlsn aHa
is no longer possible treat him with the nan co"
tempuOus indul gouce that thought TO DC o"e
to political comedian. Up till 1874 Mr. Dsraeh WIS
treated joke. In 1873, without being serious III
sOnage, he holds very serious issues m DIS hauS
aut0r therefore, considers t essential that men shoua
he reminded what manner OF man he Is, 10 WhV nenn
English people. the English Parliament, ana tus W.,
OF England, have committed sort OF pohIcdi u''''O
| ship
The Bogot will case, in Dublin, is certainly
the most remarkable litigation that has engaged lhe ~
tention Of a British court since the TichborDe canh
disappeared from the scene. Christopher Neville Bogob
member of wellknown Irish family. left his home "a
| 1874 aud amassed fortune IN Australia In leoV ."
returned and purchased estate In County 1ai"1''
| While hunting I'm England he thrown from hof''
and sustained such serious injuries that he was paalt
from the hips. In London he married TO Ahee 'o
ner young sister OF Sir william Werner Inc maii.ss
took place at hotel at midnight, IN August 1870 -,
died In May, 1877, leaving n large estate 10y me W.
the widow was cut off with an annuity Of 5000; e
paernitySf her child was denied, but $4,000 was yea
TO the lad on his attaining his thirteenth year. ana o
| bulk of the estate went TO tAe eldest DFo'@st
| of the testator The widow has brought sai'
| TO break the will. The latest Eufop"s
mail contains the brothers. testimony The tesator h
told him that he would never have married II MIS- p
had nat professcd the greatest love and affection io1
him. that she used to spend sixteen hours with Bun o
Of the twenty -four at the hotel. and that she sal" GA
abe wanted was to take OF him and nurse hih. ~
said he was afraid 1t rash act rs he had heara -
the yerners were a very irregular family. He sao ~"
Lady Werner desperately wicked, passlona.o ,.r
man. mat she and her husband used TO fight most Ia
fully; that she used take the diamonds on her
and fling them into the fire. ana Smash Tue IA
He also said that when tic late Sir william Werner ws
dying, she took the falnlis AWAY auu iei' "