The sum of religion, says Pythagoras, is to be like him thou worshipest. Had Pythagoras lived in our day he would have seen his mistake. The sum of modern religion is to make him thou worshipest like unto thyself.

Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

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

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.