Grant's Court Suit

"Just before Grant started on his faxnous trip aronnd the world - in fact, just three days before he lef t - he walked into a store in Philadelphia and very quietly, just as if he was asking nothing unusual, said that he wanted a full dress uniform of thegeneral's grade flnished for him before he lef t. As he expressed it, he couldn't appear in civilian's dress at the various courts which he would visit, and he didn't like the idea of the knickerbockers and silk stockings of the regulation court costume. "It was a rush order," said the merchant who received it, "and we had to furnish everything except the sword, but we managed to finish it in time and made what Grant considered the best fitting uniform he ever wore. The epaulets hadn't arrived when the day for trying on oocurred, and our fitter told Grant, adding that he was sorry, but that he would have to come in again. Then Grant made a remark which showed his great good sense, one of his predominant characteristics. 'Theremust be somebody here, ' he said, 'who is a bout my build. Just put the coat on him and fit the epaulets that