Dismay In The Diplomatic Quarter

The advance agent of a theatrical company which was to make a visit of three uights in Washington had summonses in legal phraseology prepared and sealed with wax, notifying the receiver that he must appear at the box office and buy at least one ticket of admittance for the play. They were fonnally addressed and sent by messenger to the prominent people of Washington. A ntimber of foreigners in the diplomatic corps receivec them, and not understanding the peculiar methods resorted to by the Americana bastened to the secretary of state to demand protection, protesting thai they knew nothing of the matter mentioned in tho Bummons, and that it was a breach of national law to arrest an aocredited foreign roproscntative. It required the combined efforts o: Secretary Gresham and his several assistant secretarios to explain the thing to the foreigners without hurting their feelings or wounding their diguity. -