Show time incense there has recently been added to tho the sol Ol lection of folk objects in the museum of the university of Penu pennsylvania sylv a package of incense the use of which survives in the rural districts of china for eor the purpose of measuring time it is called kong koung beung or I 1 clock incense f the word kong hong being our familiar eng lish word gong which we got from the chinese it is used by the watchman whose watch at night is divided into five parts five of these sticks are burned luring during the night and they are shortened by breaking them off in ac sor or dance with the seasons reasons this incense was purchased at a chinese shop in philadelphia and is another curious instance of df primitive survivals among these interesting te people Ted ledger ger I 1 |