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Show Few Mirrors In Japan. It Is only during a comparatively short time that the Japanese have known glass as occidentals know it. says Harper'B Weekly. Wbpn the first railroads were built passengers In the coaches often put their heads through the. glass, supposing the frame3 of the windows to be empty, and the railroad rail-road company at length paHted pictures pic-tures on the glass to call attention to the fact that a solid substance wai behind them. The masses of the Japanese Jap-anese today do not know the mirro as it Is known In the west. The richer rich-er people have one mirror, Indeed, but usually trie glass used In the mirrors sold to the populace is not quicksil vered. being merely well poliBhed. As for cut glass, It Is practically unknown un-known in the island, and glass drlrtlcr ing cups are rare. |