A nobleman is Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life. A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king. Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas jet and give more light than a horse. A cat is a soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. Friendship is a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. Academy: A modern school where football is taught. There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. | 
