HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.