REMARKABLE TRIFLES.
The Italians are wonderfully clever in working with the most minute things. A skilful Italian has made a beautiful little Iboat out of a pearl. The sail is of beaten gold studded with diamonds. A tiny ruby serves as a headlight. The rudder is an nnerahl. and its stand is a little slab of ivory. The boat weighs less than half an ounce, and is valued at X 1(100. Not to iie uutdone by a man, an ambitious Italian woman has painted on a canvas, so small that half a grain of corn hides it from view, a windmill with the miller, and a horse and cart with people in the cart, Some of the Italian mosaic workers in Florence will take bits of stone and glass no larger tilnni grains of custard seed and fashion litem into the most graceful flowers and other designs on shirt-studs,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 121, 19 June 1909, Page 4
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149REMARKABLE TRIFLES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 121, 19 June 1909, Page 4
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