QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.