POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.