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

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.