RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.