REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe], followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."