If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.

CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.

PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore.

A large stone presented by the archangel Gabriel to the patriarch Abraham, and preserved at Mecca. The patriarch had perhaps asked the archangel for bread.

INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.