A modern school where football is taught.

MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.

PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.