ANECDOTES.
TRUE BENIFICENCE.
—Mark Antony, when very much depressed, and at the ebb of his fortune, cried out, "I have lost all, except what I have given away."
WASHINGTON AND THE SOLDIER.
—A British soldier said, "It was once in my power to shoot Gen. Washington." "Why, then," said an American, "did you not do it?" "Because," he replied, "the death of Washington would not have been for our benefit, for we depended upon him to treat our prisoners kindly."