HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

When you doubt, abstain.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.