A Toothsome Yarn

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 138, 14 May 1891, Page 4

A Toothsome Yarn

Tpe^b has been* worshipped, and, in fuct. avy , vwnerjatHdias. relics, in some it iiiiioiin shrines.. Buddha's tooth is, jireswiryjs-.l in an Indian,', temple ; the. worship the ; tb!»th v of,,a.: iiiiiukpy; while an pieplant's.-. and".' a bhark'S-toiith" serve a ,[ similar 'purpose amoiigthe Malabar islanders aud the Tojiga. lslandeis ; respectively. . The: Siamese were formerly the possessors of the tooth of a sacred monkey , which they 'Vtiiuod ; very highly. 'la-a war wit h tihe Portuguese , they lost the lioly '"gniid'eri along with' niuoh' gold and , precious ; stones.. / They cared nothing,, Comparatively, for the real vahi'a^les.but made every effort, it is : eaid, to-recover the tooth, offering as roudhlaS; 706,006 - crowns for r its safe return:.. Portuguese were not . -Blowfto 1 - 'see^the bargain and let' the; ' worthless- relic go. It is now kept in • a Bmail<g6ld-:b.pZ', enclosed in six other boxes, in one of the ;many, ; sacr,ed ' temples-of -the Siamese capital Tuere is a'twaifcion-thiattne'human javv was : f orm : efly;>;iprovided- ; ; with KfoVty-two teeth, and that- the number, was: .'.re?! ■ ducedtp- thirty- two whion Ohosroes, the Persmn "Ring,' the- piece of 'the J tVue cVoss'' j enshrined ; at Cou- ; - Btantinbple^' : - r • i ' ;: . -^ vf -'' - • -