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Show STOVE IN THE POCKET. Chinese Ward Off Winter's Rigors by Carrying Hsnd Furnaces. Tho contented smile of the "heathen Chlneo" may ba partially accounted for by tholr Indifference to the coldness cold-ness of tho winter months. For la tho north of China they care not whether they be Indoors or out; they always havo a stove with them In tha shapo ot a hand furnace. Instead ot tho flro being placed In tho house It Is carried about tho person, beneath tho thickly padded cotton garments or In tho hand; at times It Is placed beneath the chair on which the Celestial Celes-tial Is seated. Tho discovery of this unlquo method of avoiding wlntcr'a rigors was mado by a travolcr In Fu-klen Fu-klen prolnco, whoso attention was attracted at-tracted to the universal and peculiar deformities ot Its Inhabitants. Strange swellings projected In the most unaccountable unac-countable places on the anatomy ot tho villagers. Speculations wero set at rest by an old gentleman, who removed re-moved his coat and disclosed a small copper furnace secured around bis waist with a band and neatly covered with basket work. This artificial mode of warming the body is only resorted re-sorted to In time ot extrcmo cold, as on ordinary occasions tho people deem their thick clothing a sufficient protection pro-tection during winter. |