Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.