Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1880 — Dictionary of the Future. [ARTICLE]

Dictionary of the Future.

Accordeon: a pair of bellows which have accidently swallowed a jew’s harp. Auctioneer: a man of morbid temperament. Eccentricity: reg•lar irregularities. Genius: a lunatic—more or less sane. Knack: the art of using genius. Love: an archer who never uses a cross beau. Prndery: patody of modesty. Plagiarism : the discovery that our ideas have been stolen by our predecessors. Peace : war taking a nap. Part songs: (German) a game of follow my Lieder. Quadrille: a silent protest against the immorality of dancing. Seldslimsi: a prefereicj misplaced. University: academies in winter 6f scholarship, and in summer of scullership.— Scribner’s Monthly.