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

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

A lottery is a tax on stupidity.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.