R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.