MONSIGNOR- A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.