Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1919 — Lucky and Unlucky Accidents. [ARTICLE]

Lucky and Unlucky Accidents.

General Grant used to contend that it was because his mother happened on one occasion to be short of butter that Jie eventually became president, observes London Tit-Bits. It was while procuring the butter that the lad heard read a letter concerning a possible vacancy at West Point He applied, obtained the vacancy and from that time never looted back, . A simple incident observed in a little country tavern resulted in no less a measure than the introduction of the penny post. The observer of the Incident happened to be Rowland Hill. Only a missing marriage certificate prevented the hodcarrier of Hugh Miller establishing his claim to the earldom of Crawford, Just as the absence of a comma in a bill which passed through congress on one occasion cost the American government -a million dollars.