Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.

MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.