MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

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

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.