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Show The Japanese Fire Box. hibachi io a firo box, of which the st form is that of a square, or cir-. cir-. or oblong receptacle ef wood, with dieet copper. Into this a Ay of lime dust or sifted ashes is aid on the top of that a little pile ol 1 charcoal, which burns slowly Wily upon the fine ashes, giving keat, but not a vestige of smoko. ii the primitive and plainest form "fire box," such as will be seen in J common purposes at railway stain sta-in Kuruma sheds, in wayside tes esand restaurants and in unpreten- stops. But Japanese skill and we to lavish themselves on thil piece of domestic furniture, and hibachis, accordingly, of all s and materials. Some are made of "ered copper, or brass, or iron, with rasdflicately and beautifully beaten ;'tw burnished metal: Some I have 'a great houses contrived from the a vast tree, the gnarled and knot-r-being laboriously hollowed hiied with copper, and the ex-'carefully ex-'carefully polished to bring forth "tyof the grain. Cor. London Slaps, i |