HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

A lottery is a tax on stupidity.

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

PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.