REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.

EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.