Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.

PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

Doubt is the father of invention.

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.