MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers - particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.