Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.