RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

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

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.

RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.