According to this story about Ulysses S. Grant, he once handed out an exploding cigar that missed the person who was its original mark and squarely struck one of his relatives several decades later.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 20 — The cigar that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant is supposed to have given to Horace Norton of Williams Point, was like the general's military thrusts. It had power. "And when," said Norton,"I light this cigar with trembling hand, it is not alone a tribute to the spirit of him whom you call founder, but also to that titan among statesmen who was never too exalted to be a friend."
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