WASHINGTON ETIQUETTE.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1639, 22 May 1879, Page 3

WASHINGTON ETIQUETTE.

A Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" relates the following good one i Some days before the adjournment of Congress', as the story goes, good-natured and ponderous Senator McOreery, of Kentucky, was waddling down' Pennsylvania avenue, when a dapper young gentleman, one of that class which delights " society girls" by exclaiming at intervals during a fashionable reception,, "Have you been very gay this season ?" approached him with the question, " Ah, Senator, how do do ? I called on you this morning. Did you' get my card ? " "Yes," said the Senator, dryly," I got the card; but what did you mean by writing 'E.P.' in the corner of it ? " '•Oh, that," said the young gentleman, evidently delighted at being able to give information, "that, you know, means 'en perso7ine'—m. othw words, 'left in person.' " "Yes, yes," said the Senator, meditatively, " I see." The next day Mr McOreery again met the young man, and this time, going up to him, said, " Ah, by the way, I called on you this morning ; did you get my card ? " "Yes, sir; yes," was the reply; "I got it; but I say, Senator, what in the world did you mean by writing 'S.B.A.N.' in the corner of it ? " " What! " cried the old gentleman, laughing all over his big face, " didn't you understand that ? I'm surprised. What should I mean but ' sent by a nigger' ? "