X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.