OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.