Show time incense thero there has recently been added to tho the collection of folk objects in tho the museum of the university of pennsylvania a package of incense tho the uso use of which survives in tile rural districts of china for the purpose of measuring mea time it is called kong keung or clock incense tho the word kong being our familiar famili arEng english word gon gong which we got from the chinese 1 it t is used by the watchman whose watch at night i 13 s divided into five parts five of these sticks are burned during the night and they are shortened by bf breaking bie aking the them in off I 1 in 11 be accordance cor dance with tile beacons bea sons this incense was purchased at a chinese shop in philadelphia and is another curious instance of primitive survivals among thesta in tei esting people philadelphia ledger |