HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.