Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.

REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.