Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination . . .

Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation. . . . Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.