"Lunarian: But this system of maintaining an expensive judicial machinery to pass upon the validity of laws only after they have long been executed, and then only when brought before the court by some private person--does it not cause great confusion? "Terrestrian: It does. "Lunarian: Why then should not your laws, previously to being executed, be validated, not by the signature of your President, but by that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? "Terrestrian: There is no precedent for any such course. "Lunarian: Precedent? What is that? "Terrestrian: It has been defined by five hundred lawyers in three volumes each. So how can any one know?" EXHORT, v. t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort. EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin," replied: "No, sir, but I should like to anchor on it." Years afterward, when he had been hanged as a pirate after a career of unparalleled atrocities, the following memorandum was found in the ship's log that he had kept at the time of his reply: "Aug. 3d, 1842. Made a joke on the ex-Isle of Erin. Coldly received. War with the whole world!" EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem; From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!" EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired waist deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Shows him the path he never should have gone. Joel Frad Bink. EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends. EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. F