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Show CHINESE GAMBLER WASAPLUNGER New York, April 12. Paper money, paper shapes of his ancestors and a joss will bo burned in oxtra largo quantities for Mon Fah, who died in the Chinese qharter last nlghL Every precaution against the evil spirits will be taken and the friends of the dead man are glad that his queue was of extra length, for Mon Fah killed himself. him-self. Mon Fah was known to Cliinoso from Atlantic to the Pacific as the most skillful and daring plunger in this country at the approved Celestial Celes-tial games of chance. He was reputed wealthy when he retired from his ca-reor ca-reor of a professional gambler a couple of. years ago, on account ,of ill-health. Ho was then G2 years old, and since that time ho had been an invalid, traveling about the country and visiting his countrymen in vnr-ous vnr-ous cities in his search for health. He i declined to consult American physi- j cians, however, contenting himself with the advice of native medicinemen. medicine-men. Recently he spent a large sum, it is said, to obtain pills of dragon blood, brought from a sacred spot beneath be-neath the shadow of the Great Wall. They proved ineffectual, however, and the old man, despairing, killed himself him-self last night oo |