Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.