Show A NEGRO michaeli MICHAE Ii ANGELO angey O in campi campinas campanas Cam pinas nas Brazil there is is an enor moua church which has been seventy years ii in n building and is not completed the remarkable feature about it is the wonderful WO carving of the interior and the still more wonderful ivond erful fact that the greater part of it if is the work of a negro mancho man who has never studied the sl simplest in blest principles of w who ho indeed does not even know his alphabet the sense of beauty of form was instinctive with him and with the cunning hand of self taught genius he hk ha has carved temples and columns flowers and kraves arabs ques cherubim and archangels throwing off his wondrous creations with the profusion which is only po possible isible to those who dra ara draw w their inspiration from within he ile worked at his labor of love with W th delight until old age brought failing sight aad trembling hands and ana now poor solitary help heip helpless legs and blind he ekes out a miserable pittance which his townsmen grant for his support by begging alms aims in the streets of campinas campanas Cam pinas others have continued djs workmore work mor more e br or less imperfectly and as there thore had been no plans made the variety of workmen has greatly detracted from iram the harmony of the th general gereral essect effect ex v |