LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . ."

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.