Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

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

Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.

As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.