Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1883 — Definitions. [ARTICLE]

Definitions.

Bath.—-The leveler—a tub in which King, burgher and peasant look and act alike. Bummer.—A philosopher; the latterday name for a modern Diogenes, derived from the Greek word TnaMp. Soldier.—A machine working automatically; powerful for autocrats; powerless for democrats. Thieving.—A too-visible appropriation of another person’s goods; called speculation when artistically done. Honor.—An invisible quality that men swear by, not act by; a colloquial phrase. Army.—A conglomeration of atoms, that one atom may raise itself above the others. Happiness.—An abstract term, meaning absence of misery. Blue Blood.—A fife stream tinged blue with the dregs of centuries. Politician.— A human sac-simile of the Keeley motor; a thing of promise and of little worth.— The Judge.