HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.