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Show Clilaei Minister Wide Awake. Minister Wu Ting-fang recently attended at-tended a reception following a dinner at the Washington home of Senator Hanna. He had hardly arrived when a senator congratulated him on emerging emerg-ing from a rumor that he was about to be recalled, and added: "Let's take a glass of wine on it." The Chinese diplomat was much gratified, but began be-gan to smell a mouse when half a dozen more public men approached him in the same way. "They were evidently trying to put me under the table," says Wu, "but by keeping cool and spilling a few glasses I managed to maintain my equilibrium. |