OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.

POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific-and without science we are as the snakes and toads.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

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

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.