Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.

OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.