Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

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.

One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.