EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! . . ."

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.