TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.