Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

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

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.