Show in regard to colors mo we are far behind the ancients none of the colors in the fhe egyptian paintings of thousands of years ago are in the least faded except the green the tyrian purple of the entombed city of pompeii is 13 as fresh today to day as it was those thousand years ago some of the stucco tainted painted ages before the Chrls chris christian tian era broken up and mixed reverted t to 0 its original C lustre and yet wo we pity the ignorance of the dark children chi ehi idren of the ancient egypt the colors upon the walls walla of neros festal vault are as fresh as if painted yesterday so is the cheek of the egyptian prince who was contemporaneous with solomon and cleopatra at whose feet caesar laid the riches of his empire and in regard to metals the edges of the statues of the obelisk il of egypt and of the ancient walls walis of rome are aro as aa if but hewn yesterday and the stones still remain so closely fitted that their seams laid with morter cannot be penetrated with the edge of a penknife knife and their surface is exceedingly hard ilard so hard that whon when the french artista artiste engraved two lines obelisk brought from ec egypt apt they destroyed in the tedious task many pathe of tha best tools which can be manufactured and aa yet these ancient are traced all over with placed upon them in olden time this with other facts of striking character prove thit that they were far more skilled in metal metai thail we ive yve are quito quite rt it is recorded that when an Ameri amerl american cair catt vessel 0 mihe wife as on rho nho shores ores of AM african ci n ann son of that be g tl 0 aa an iron fron boop hoop 1 kni kniffi Q I 1 s 1 t ty ell vii b on n b board 6 a r d 0 of f t the ai e asel and another madea made a sword of excellence from a piece or of n |