BELLADONNA, n.

BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady;
in English a deadly poison. A striking
example of the essential identity of the two
tongues.

ABSENT, adj.

ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilified; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.

To men a man is but a mind. Who cares
What face he carries or what form he wears?
But woman's body is the woman. O,
Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go,
But heed the warning words the sage hath said:
A woman absent is a woman dead.
—Jogo Tyree

CALAMITY, adj.

CALAMITY, adj. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to

ourselves, and good fortune to others.