Long Ago Life In Washington

There are sorae entertaining pictures of life in Washington 70 years ago in Stratford Canniiig's diary and letters. "My predeoessor, " he writes, "had greatly the advantage over me in his collection of good stories. I record one of them to serve as a pattern of the rest. He was Sir Charles Bagot, a rnan of very attractive inanners, intelligent, witty and kind. An American minister and his wife dining with hira one day, he heard Lady Bagot, who was at sorue distance, sajr rather qnickly, 'My dear Mrs. S., what can you be doing?' The salad bowl had been offered to Mrs. S., and her arm was lost in it up to the elbow. Her reply was prompt - 'Only rollicking for an onion, my lady. ' "