| Show i HIS NAME I The New Years reception at the White House passed off very pleasantly I Immense throngs of people paid their respects to the President and Mrs Cleveland and the laides of the Cabinet who assisted at the reception Besides the Chief Justice and the Judges of the Supreme Court and the heads sf departments de-partments and foreign representatives all the citizens of Washington seemed to have turned out Always in a crowd like that acme funny and ludicrous incidents in-cidents will occur The correspondent of the Chicago News relates one In the society of the oldest inhabitants inhabi-tants of the District of Columbia which always appear in full force on New Yearff day were several of the character charac-ter of Washington One of them the venerable ven-erable Mr Decker was very anxious that Colonel Wilson who was making the introducrtions to the presidents president-s oud get his name right It is an e osy and a common name he said and there is no reason why 14should be mispronounced cMr Dicker shouted Colonel Wilson Wil-son without entering into th3 dfscus sion HowdO you do Mr Becker said the President It is a pleasant day Mr Fletcher said Mrs Cleveland Delighted to see you Mr Thacher said Miss Bayard You have seen a good many New Yeirs days Mr Thackery said Mrs Whitney who always has a pleasant Word as people pass down the line A happy New Year Mr Flannery exclaimed Mrs Fairchilds and then when the poor old gentleman who was so particular to have his name pro nouced correctly got to the end of the line Mrs DicKinson called him Flanni gan and he staggered into the east roo aUdPUlJed some envelopes oatbf > hl locket to seed o1n their addresses whfie was when b started r I |
