Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.