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Show HK f A REMARKABLE TOOTH. HH -Wonderful itello In tho Templu at Yaka- HH i. ilttnin, Japan. HH r The temple at Yakadama, Japan, con- HH tains a wonderful relic in the shape of a HH tooth -which, tradition says, one of the HH gods pulled from his jaw in order; to HB have a weapon with which' to'dispatch' HH an immense cobra, says, .tho St. Louis HB Republic. Years ago, according to the HB tradition, after the tooth' had been HH -worshiped by heathen devotees, for HB centuries, a change of sentiment took HH placo in regard to tho relic. It was BB declared to bo a fraud and was, ne BB cordingly, ground to a powder nnd then HB thrown into the river. But the particles BB came together, so the priests say, and BB again formed themselves into a per- Bj feet tooth, which was found as per- HH feet as before the ordeal, quietly repos- HB ing in tho bed of the river. After this HH miracle, the "Temple of the Sacred BH Tooth," which had also been destroyed HH by the unbelievers, wasrcbuilt and tho BH tooth again enshrined as nn object of BH adoration. At present it is kept in a HH gold box wrapped in films from tho BH sacred white spider's won- HH Noiuhelievers in the power of the Sa- HH crcd Indestructible Tooth say that it is BH fiimply a molar of some extinct (species HB of gigantic animal. '."! ..j,IL, ... hhWbv |