THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.