MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.

Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.