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Show GENERAL GRANT'S BON MOT. Witty Rejoinder That Is Credited t the "SMent Man." A portrait of Jay Cooke, by Wa M. Chase, Is one of the best pictures at this year's exhibition of the Philadelphia Philadel-phia academy of fine arts. Mr. Chas standing beneath the portrait th other afternoon, said: - "When Mr. Jay Cooke posed for he told me of a boa-mot of Gn. Grant's. Grant was entertaining a clergyman one evening, and the clergyman had to mait a certain train - .on- a. -certain rtiroail-ot. -; . would not get home that night. Therefore his host kept reminding him of the hour, but he would put the) matter off and begin to talk in hi fluent, clerical way again. " 'Now, doctor, remember your train goes at ,10:20,' Grant for the tenth time said. "'That is all right about the train, General,' returned the clergyman; 'the Lord controls the trains.' "'Yes,' Grant chuckled, 'but If yon want to get this A. & B. line train, you had better start now. The Lord has had nothing to do with the A. & B. this many a year.' " Pittsburg , Gazette. , |