Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

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

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.