God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

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.

INTERPRETER, n. One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.