SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.