Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.

MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.