Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in Central Africa only. The Pigmies are so called to distinguish them from the bulkier Caucasians - who are Hogmies.