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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.—Samuel Johnson.

Quotation.—Who said, "A gentleman will not affront me, and no other can?"

Ans.—Perhaps you mean, "A moral, sensible and well-bred man will not affront me and no other can." Cowper, in "Conversation."

The Devil.—Who wrote: "The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he?"

Ans.—Rabelais, Book IV., Chap. xxiv.

William Morgan.—Is it true that Captain Morgan was killed by the Masons for betraying their secrets?

Ans.—There was a William Morgan whose death was the immediate cause of the promotion of the anti-Masonic party. He was born in West Virginia, about 1775. He fought in the defense of New Orleans in 1815; removed to Canada in 1821, where he became a brewer and whence soon after he removed to Batavia, N. Y., and in August, 1826, disappeared; soon after a rumor had been spread that he was to reveal the secrets of the Masonic order. He was supposed to have been drowned in Lake Ontario. A corpse found near the mouth of the Niagara River was stated to be his, and much political capital was made of this so-called proof. Thurlow Weed, a leader in the anti-Masonic movement, cynically said