Examples of this ware, which comes from Venice, are faithful copies of valuable specimens housed in museums. It is the most beautiful glass ever made. The crowds who admire the endless variety of shapes and the sea green color of the collection shown in a Regent street window do not realize that they are admiring vessels conceived more than 2,000 years ago and treasured by art lovers in ancient Rome. So careful have the designers been to reproduce the originals in every particular that some attempt has been made to fuse colors and to graft patterns in red or blue glass on plain colored vases. "It has always been surprising to me," said a prominent archaeologist to a Daily Express representative, "that modern manufacturers have not copied ancient glass. So beautiful and highly prized was glass at one period in ancient times that a certain Roman emperor made a law prohibiting us from a manufacture, on the ground that it might cause a depreciation in the gold currency."

Fortune Lost by Misdirected Letters. A waste of $1,740,000 annually results from wrongly addressed mail, according to a recent estimate by the Post Office department. An average of 376,381 misdirected letters every day are received at the post office. The salaries of employees to read (each for parts in the year) alone to more than a million dollars a year.

PASSION PLAYERS GET $2.25 EACH FOR PARTS IN DRAMA. Anton Lang, Who Portrayed Christ, Waved His to Boost Portions of Others. Performers in the year's "Passion"  Play at Oberamergau received an average of 18,000 marks for their services, according to the final financial statement issued by the committee in charge. The sum represents about $2.25 at the prevailing rate of exchange. 