Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

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.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.