ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.

INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

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

There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.