MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

Doubt is the father of invention.

PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.