WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.