Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.