Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-13
THE LOST ARTS.
Buried Secrets of the Feasts and Sci
 enees of tho AncIenxs.


 enees of the AncienIs.
 Not Withstanding the great advance in in vention and manufactures of the present century in most respects, there are many wonderful arts and sciences in which the an eients have never been equaled and the se- cret of which has long since perished.
 In the letters of the Catholic priests who first visited China, which were published in France two hundred years ago, they relate that they were shown a glass, transparent and eolorless, which was filled with liquid made by the Chinese, which to the observers appeared to be as clear as water. This i- quor was poured into the glass; then, lock- ing through it, it seemed to be filed with fishes.
 the fuid but to the glass itself. The Chi- nese confessed that they did not make them, but that they were the plumber of some for eign conquest many centuries before.
 Wendell Phillips, in his lecture on the 'Lost Arts" in speaking of malleable glass, tells of Roman who, in the age of Tiberi- us, had been banished and returned to Rome, bringing a wonderful cup. This cup he dashed upon the marble pavement and it was crushed, but not broken by the fall. Although somewhat dented, with hammer he easily bent it into shape again. It WAS brilliant, transparent, but not brittle. He further states that the Romans ob-
 
 and that they brought it into Spain eight centuries ago In the books of that age there is kind of glass spoken of that if supported by one end by it's own weight in 8 days time would dwindle down to fine line, so that it could be curved around ones wrist like bracelet.
 The art of luminous painting was known to the Japanese nine hundred years ago, and an extract from one of their old writers has been translated as follows: cone Su Ngoh many years ago had picture of an OK. Ev- cry day the OK left the picture frame to graze 1 and returned to sleep within it at night This picture came into possession of the | GA. D. 97099S), who showed it to his ceur 1 tiers and asked them for an explanation l which none of them, however, could give l 'sAt last 8 certain Buddhist priest said that 1 the Japanese found some nacreous substance 1 within the flesh of 8 certain kind of oyster they picked up when the rocks were barred a l low tide, and they ground this into color ma l terial and then painted it with picture, which were invisible by day and luminoul l by night. "The secret was that during th. 1 day the figure of the OK was not visible, anc it was therefore said that it left the frame t. go grazing"
 In the year 157s, the twentieth of Queer Elizabeths reign, one Mark Scaliot, black smith, made lock consisting of clever pieces of iron, steel and brass, with a hol, low key to 1t, that altogether weighed bu one grain of gold. He also made gols chain composed of forty-three links, whicl he fastened to the lock and key. In tn presence of the queen he put the chain abou the neck of flea, which drew 1t with ease after which he put the lock and key, he and chain, into pair of scales, and they al together weighed but one grain and half.
 Myrmecides, an ancient carver, was g. proficient in microscopic mechanism that b made an ivory chariot with four wheels an