ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

A violin is the revenge exacted by the intestines of a dead cat.

The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.