Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

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.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.