speculation in regard to chemistry, philosophy, physics, astronomy, sociology, political economy, those low and evil so-called sciences which once so disturbed and irritated and afflicted the human mind. (_A burst of applause, lasting forty-three minutes._) They have been done for, and instead we have strictly and sensibly confined ourselves, I am happy to state, to those more acceptable evidences of our place in Nature and our duties, as revealed by those renowned and profound teachers and thinkers, our noble and revered ancestors, Billy Sunday the Great, he of blessed memory (_applause, lasting one hour_)--Ralph Waldensicuss Trinecuss of Boston (_applause, lasting fifty minutes_)--Arise-and-Sweat Marden (_applause, lasting forty minutes_)--Erbert Goughman (_applause, lasting thirty minutes_)--Philip Dugmore Potts (_applause, lasting twenty minutes_)--and Edith Whiller Nox Nox (_applause, lasting ten minutes_)--revealers and thinkers all, the true forerunners and prophets of our present peaceful and happy state. (_Prolonged applause, enduring over seven-hundred minutes, during which_ NOXUS _and the Moonshees snore and the two thousand Loobies and Gaberlunzies read long and refreshing passages from the works of the individuals mentioned. The Fuddys sizz at their task._) THE ONE HUNDRED HODDY-DODDYS (_As the applause subsides, feathering the face of the Moonshees._) Awake, your Referendunces, awake! (_They pole-vault in front of the Musnud._) THE FIFTY DIZZARDS (_Whistling between their teeth and striking with their feather clubs._) Oh, your Very Great Referendunces! Oh! Come to! Come to! (_They chatter and clog._) NOXUS PODUNKUS