Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

Potable, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine.

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.