HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.

A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.

POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.