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Show Superstition of Chinese. The Chinese are a superstitious people, peo-ple, and think it a bounden duty to keep the body intact, and if by any misfortune they are compelled to lose a limb by amputation they invariably ask for the severed member and keep it in a box. Sometimes they will actually actu-ally eat it, thinking it only right that that which has been taken from the j body should be returned to it. On this i ame principle an extracted tooth will e carefully preserved or ground to |