WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard.

HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.