There is no cereniouy at the White House, Washington. A visitor was surprised to find that the official who opened the door was dressed not in livery, but in ordinary everyday costume Standing in the hallway were "two of >■.< policemen as one coidd intM-l in ;• d;i\V walk through any of the worse gnvt rni-il of oui huyu cities.** After being duly presented to the President they returned to tbe door through which they had witfiivd, whm: there Mere several uniformed official*, and iih the party upproached one of th«;m deliberately raised his foot and kinked the door open bo that the two visitors might pass out. Standing I>etore a clergyman who was about to marry him, a rustic was asked. " Wilt thou have this woman, etc. The man stared in surprise, and replied, "Ay, surely! Whoy, I kunumsd a puppus !" *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6259, 5 January 1892, Page 2
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