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.

LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

OWE, v. To have (and to hold) a debt. The word formerly signified not indebtedness, but possession; it meant "own," and in the minds of debtors there is still a good deal of confusion between assets and liabilities.

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.