Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.