OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

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.

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

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.