Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.