Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.

A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

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.