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

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.

Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.