Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Noise: a stench in the ear.