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Chinese Actors in Fantastic Costumes

out distinction of persons, upon any who back having borne before him an enor. are inclined to be quarrelsome or dis-mous lantern, inscribed with his names orderly. Again, every ten houses are and titles, and every man in the force under the surveillance of one of the in- bearing a small lantern of the shape of a habitants as representative of the authori- fish, a bird, or a stag. After a certain ties. As soon as night falls every house- hour, every side street is closed with a holder, rich or poor, has a lighted lantern barrier at each end, and the guards before his door. Although the city has posted there on duty allow no one to pass no public lights, the fact is almost com- unless carrying a lantern, and able to