A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

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

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.