A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.