OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

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.