Let us have peace.
Accepting a Nomination for the Presidency, May 29, 1868.—Ulysses Simpson Grant.
Ulysses Simpson Grant, the greatest of American generals, and eighteenth President of the United States, was born at Point Pleasant, Ohio, April 27, 1822, and died at Mt. McGregor near Saratoga Springs, N. Y., July 23, 1885. His “Personal Memoirs,” won for him everlasting literary fame.
Have you sent to the apothecary for a sufficient quantity of cream of tartar to make lemonade? You know I die if I have not everything in the highest style.
“Man and Wife,” iii,—Colman.
George Colman, the Elder, a celebrated English dramatist, was born in Florence, Italy, April 28, 1733, and died in London, August 14, 1794. Among his comedies are: “The Deuce Is in Him,” “New Brooms,” “Man and Wife,” “The Separate Maintenance.”
Injuries from friends fret and gall more, and the memory of them is not so easily obliterated.
—John Arbuthnot.
John Arbuthnot, a famous Scottish humorist, was born near Arbuthnot Castle, Kincardineshire, Scotland, April 29, 1667, and died in London, February 27, 1735. His most celebrated work was, “The History of John Bull.”
Life is a game the soul can play
With fewer pieces than men say.