Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.