WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.

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

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.