RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

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

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

WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .