HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.

PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution - they knew no more of the matter than he.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.