MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.

QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.

Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.