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Show There is nothing new under the sun: Luminous paint, which produces beautiful effects in the dark, is being introduced as a novelty, when in fact the Emperor of China in the year of grace 976, possessed a painting, the subject of which every morning left its frame to go and take a walk, and was only on view at night. The Emperor naturally thought there was something peculiar about the artist, but it turned out that he made his paints of a luminous substance extracted from the oyster. To-day, a thousand years later oyster shells and sulphur are astonishing our grown up minds.-Industrial News. |