Lord Hudson, in Queen Elizabeth's time, said, "To have courage to
observe an affront, is to be even with an adversary. To have the
patience to forgive it, is to be above him."

C.B.

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DEATH AMONGST LIONS.

It is remarkable that in 1438, all the lions in the Tower of London
died.

T. GILL.

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ANTIQUITY OF PORTERS.

Saccarii, among the Romans were a company or fraternity of porters,
who had the sole privilege to carry all goods from the harbour to the
warehouses, none being allowed to employ their own slaves, and much less
those of others, for that purpose.

The modern _Saccarii_, alias tackle porters and ticket porters, are
well known to Londoners, and have been thus poetized by Gay:

"If drawn by business to a street unknown,