MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.