PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.