MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.