Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.