EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.