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Show A Jap Goi. Brook?, of the New York Ej-j.rf.i, thus write.- of the Jap- , anesc sod ftji-bo.vz: We went inside ; of him, al--r running all around htm ; on tin- oiiwde. His iiwde is full of gilt Buddhist s'iiii?, with crosiers, glories r.i'icd ihe heid, etc. We threw ; tempos (cents) up into his head to ; hear them raule. The priests liked it, for we did nit pick them up, though' they were frightened lest the heavy ; copper tempos fallini baik might hit on their shaven heads. We kirted on the outside asaiti, the better to com-: prebend this im-s of bronzo, fifty feet hisrh ad thirty fee, wide at its base, which re-is on a pile of masonry six feet hiirh. We rau again into the in-1 side t'i .-'f1 how iln: bronze joints were ' put together, and these joints were al- i mot imperceptible. Wc got up to : tlu old fellow's :mus. Six of us sal on his thumbs. WoiiXiI.edintohirifaee.and saw there the mournful repose, the lips closed, the eyes downcast, and the head silrrhlly bent upon the breast. I Great is Dai-boolz. I don't think much of him as a god; but as a mighty work of bronze :;!;, as a Colossus, in (hat way I worship him as I did the , Sphynx, near the Kjryptiau pyramids, and I wish 1 had a week to give him instead of this passing hour. |