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Show CHINA U8E8 CJOARETTE. j Even Opium Smokers Using Them, Re-I Re-I ports Consul McNally, Washington. Cigarettes and kerosene, kero-sene, tho former superseding the pipes formerly smoked' by tho Chinese, vlo for the record as tho articles most In demand In China to-dny. Consul McNally of Nanking reports Hint woiaen or all classes Indulgo aa openly In cigarettes ns their brothers, and that tho sproad of tho habit throughout Iho empire has been astonishingly as-tonishingly rapid. The cigarette, which can bo bought from ono to a thousand for n prlco as low as ono-fourth of an Amerlran cent each, Is oven used by opium smokers, who smoko clgarettCB after Inhaling tho fumes of opium, rom which, tho manufacturers say, tho cigarettes are free. Even tho walls of temples aru desecrated with cigarette posters. |