The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .

AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.