RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".

MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.

Rome has seven sacraments, but the Protestant churches, being less prosperous, feel that they can afford only two, and these of inferior sanctity.

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

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.