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.

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.

Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.