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Show Houoooly. Don't become excited or allow yourself to feel alarmed, if for a week now you notioe queer antics among the Chinamen. If your sbirt-ouffs sbirt-ouffs have no starch, and the tip end of your handkerchief is stiffened, be not alarmed. This is the Chinese season of jokes. Beginning Sunday and continuing for eight days thereafter, there-after, is the annual period of the Hougooly, when all China resorts to j "devil driving." Hideous dins of j orackers and gongs are now in order for the purpose of persuading the devil ; to such a distance that he will be unable un-able to return during a twelve month. If the season be not observed with due decorum in our own oity, wo may rest assured that the Hougooly of John Chinaman is engaged in some 1 better paying burgh than our own, i and that pigtails here have been unusually un-usually mild-mannered, to escape his visit. |