MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.