YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.