FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.