COMMENDATION n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles but do not equal our own.

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense.

Doubt is the father of invention.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.