Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.