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Show Japanese Lacquer. The Japanese lacquer wliich attracts to Biux'h attention hore on trays and ornaments imported frota that mysti;- ; rcmslanilhasanin.k'resting'Iiistory. It is extracted from a tree, like Bur:i-r from a -maplti, and these lacquer yielding tr j roach a very large sizo. They only live ; a'Dout forty years, when they are cut ; down, aail the lacqueT extracted from , the hranchos, and young trees take their j place. The varnish is proof against boil- ; Ing water, alcohol and almost every ! agent known, while it takes a polit-U j W'hkh is practically iiidestructilile. It can be used for the most diverse puf ; poses. New York Teivaprarn. |