UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.