ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.