DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

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

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.