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Show Cbineae Superstition There are towers In Shanghai where men watch for fires. When one Is disco ered tlie lire-bell Is rung. When the old custom house was built n Inrge clock was placed In Its tower. For some weeks after this clock began be-gan to strike the hours there were very few If any fires. The Chinese said It was becnuse the fire-god thought that every time the clock struck there was a fire announced, an-nounced, so , he could rest without helping. All these things seem ridiculous ridic-ulous to us but are very real to the Chinese. |