Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

UNITARIAN, n. One who denies the divinity of a Trinitarian.

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

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.