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Show 'Jin: New Fashihvs is Caicds. Son," dttyn before the adjournment of con htv-'. ar thf nlory goes, gnrxl- n lurid ami ponderous Senator Mc-Creery. Mc-Creery. ol Kentucky, was waddling down Pennsylvania avenue, when a dapper young l: nlletuau, one of that class which delights "eociely girls" by exclaiming at intervals during a fashionable reccp'.ion: "Hae you been very gj.y l:iio PPSID ?" appro ap-pro tcbid him will) the question: "Ah, w:nator, how dodo? 1 called 'on you this morning. Did you get iy rard V "Vis," said the senator dryly, "I cot the Vard; hot wiit did you mean by writing 'K. V. ' in I he corner ol it?" "Oil, tiil," aai l top yoiiiiii gentle-man gentle-man evidently deiigi.t-fd at being able to give informal. on, "lli-f. you know, mean (n y.rf-n , in other wrrd, 'left in pc rern. "Y-a, ypf," puJ the prnaior mtdi-tativo'y, mtdi-tativo'y, "1 n, e " Th next day Mr. MeCrc-ry aain ni' t the young man, n 1 th n time cm 1. g up to him, f ii I: "Ah, r-y luc way, I cnik.il 011 y":ti ti;H nijruing; il'.d you g-t my card ?" "Yen, sir," wan the H;ly, ' I gt it; but I cm v , sen !i tor, what in the wor;:l rh'1 y.Li mean by writing 'S. B A. N.' iu tr.t corner of ii ?" " What !" cried the old g ntleman, liii;h;i,g all r,v-r hi? big 1-ce, "didn't you unJrrstard that ? I'm surprised. Vi hat ehouid I mean but 'sent by a L,i.T ? ' " |