How John Chinaman Dines

jliinaman diñes tlius: lie hol ds the dish in the left hand and uses lus pair of c'iop nücks with the riglit hand, holding tliem na :i bone playcr at iho uegro rainstrel ooncert does bis pair of boncs. At irst glance the pair of chop stioks in :iis hand appear like a forked stick. - llapid manipolatioii, which conuot bc dcscribed, cauces tho rico to disappear as if by magie. After breakfast groups of from tvro to four gather togother a.id begin Bmoking a proparstion of opium, which in about five minutes partially stupcfies them, when they "Wrap tlie drnpcry of tln.ir conch About theiu, and lie down tu jileasant dreams, whioh losts from fifteen (o thirty minutes. Soid a youngstor, in high gloo, diplaying his purohase to a bosom friond ou the sidewalk : " Tvto eocoa nut for ten cents ! that will makt me eiek tomorrow, I wont ha?o to go to school." Office Brekers cry, " Oh tliat I wcro an eveut, that I reighttake place.''