RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.