Occupation: Journalist Birth: June 24, 1842 Death: 1914
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another..
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket..
Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact..
HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not i….
DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world..
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated..
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation..
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live..
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility..
A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer..
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves..
Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance..
UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have bee….
ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit..
TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authorit….
ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ….
Immoral" is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb..
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities..
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt..
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others..
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy..