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.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.