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Show THE DIPLOMATIC' CORPfa. A Contnil llgurr, luhiplrunut Tor Tlmrlt unit I luiiiiiicrf. riaron Fava, at tho Inst Inauguration, was tho second In the runic, lipon which tho diplomatic corpn Is sopcr&lstont, the dean nt tho tlmo being- tho minister of thu llttlo rrovoriimciit of Ifaytl, Mr PrcsAon. It has not infrequently hai pened in the history of tlio diplomatic corps nt Washington that tlio representative represent-ative of the Binullcct country In rcgarn to territory, population, wealth ano power has outranked the greatest cm plrcsof tho old woild. This, bayt, tlir Boston Journal, has lioou true for man) years. The rrprcstut&tlvo of Great Britain, owing toiiuirolrcqucntchanjrc In tho representatives in her ambassadors ambas-sadors hero, has not bcun dean of the diplomatic rp fclnco tho days of Sir Edward Thornton, who wan bubso-quently bubso-quently "promoted," na It li termed In tho diplomatic language of Europe, to tho court of Bt. lVlcreburg. Sir Edward Ed-ward Thornton was followed nsdeau by tho rcprrfcntutlrc (if tho smallest and moat iti-dgnlllcantof tho Independent Indepen-dent Koveruiucnts represented hero, the minister of lluytl, vho hold the position posi-tion of dean for n ureal many years; lu fact, until Ids retirement from offlee and hla subsequent death. Tho diplomatic diplo-matic corps bin g-i cat hociul fcuturo In Washington. It consihtFt of n few ills-tlngulsbcd ills-tlngulsbcd persons, but for tho greater part Is compobod of wnall men and apprentice, ap-prentice, who conildcr Washington n tho startlnt; point of their diplomatic career. Washington nB a city of diplomats diplo-mats Is a mibsloii of tho third class. Evdn the potty Italian court ha higher runic for the reason, perhaps, that Uu republic of tho United .States of Amer leu 'Is regarded ns plebeian. But, Insignificant Insig-nificant 03 this body of men Is, tc'.rcun-a tc'.rcun-a whole, It is n control ilguro of Wush-Injton Wush-Injton society, nnd on all stato ooea-hloiiR ooea-hloiiR I" HiRtln ctiuf plcuopa by its tlnseli and m uuie.-y. One of the chief occu patlonA of the corpn Is to act as u sort of ornuinontal uppuuduge or a fringe to oclety. |