Occupation: Journalist Birth: June 24, 1842 Death: 1914
Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support..
ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend..
Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent..
GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student..
RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south….
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficul….
Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain..
ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life lo….
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom..
INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remo….
OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory ….
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion..
HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate..
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given t….
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….
Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire.
ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog..
EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial departmen….
TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy..
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think..
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam..