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

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

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.

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.