Show STOLEN PROPERTY AT VENICE venice in is one st museum of stolen property V elt righteous inscription over the gateway ot bt marks informs the visitor sas a writer in tl e arri hill mi at i etli lucli show of conscious probity that the antique bronze horses above II 11 e removed by tl e of tire enemy to lans under apoleon I 1 were again resorted to their proper thit incorruptible of strict international morality the emperor arancis that glorious teim a work of the sculptors of tie aroian age had previously been stol en in tl e thirteenth century by the dodge cindolo from constantinople whither they 1 id been carried from I 1 ome for his own glorification by konstantine the great who had filched them himself from the arlun phal arch of trojan whom lad borrowed them as seem able from the simi lir monument of liis pre le cessor ero hsuch are the humors of the world and the whirligigs of time indeed if every man lad ins on again one at most siy there zoild be no A anico col i bin of st marks its winged lion mould go back to arii it e square pillars by the doge a palace would return once more to st biba at I 1 tole mais the alabaster ala bister supports of the inner canopy would find way back anen to solomons lemile and bian the body of tie 1 vin gelist itself lich reposes be neath its pall of gold and jewel below the 1 agh lit ir 1 ive to migrate to tl e community from which it w is first filched the coptic christians of i |