PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.

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

ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.