Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.