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Examiner of Claims in the State Department, and 

 is well known as the author of the standard Ameri- 

 can work on International Law. In the evening 

 Messrs. Putnam and Angell entertained the Chief at 

 dinner at the Arlington, a report of which, as given 

 in the New York Herald of the following day, is 

 appended : 



MR. CHAMBERLAIN DINED 



AN ORCHID DINNER GIVEN TO THE FISHERIES COM- 

 MISSIONERS AT THE CAPITAL 



{From our regular correspondent) 



Washington, November 29, 1887. — The dinner 

 given by Messrs Putnam and Angell, the American 

 negotiators for the settlement of the fisheries ques- 

 tions, to the British Commissioners at the Arlington 

 Hotel this evening was the most expensive as to 

 floral decorations ever given there, the table being 

 adorned solely with orchids and ferns. 



As a special compliment to Mr. Joseph Chamber- 

 lain, who is believed to have the finest collection of 

 orchids in England, Mr. Putnam desired to give 

 him an " orchid dinner," and it was done. The 

 florists employed to furnish the flowers and plants 

 say they had to telegraph to one hundred different 

 places, east, north, and west, to secure enough orchids 

 for this dinner. 



The guests of Messrs. Putnam and Angell besides 

 Mr. Chamberlain were Sir Charles Tupper, Sir 



