MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.

LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.