I'm very particular about mine.

Take celery, now -- there's only one spot in this country where celery will grow.

But I an surprised about the wines.

I should think they were manufactured in the New York Custom House.

I must send the President some from my cellar.
I was really mortified the other day at dinner to see Blacque Bey leave his standing in the glasses." When the Colonel first came to Washington he had thoughts of taking the mission to Constantinople, in order to be on the spot to look after the dissemination, of his Eye Water, but as that invention; was not yet quite ready, the project shrank a little in the presence of vaster schemes.
Besides he felt that he could do the country more good by remaining at home.