BACHELOR

    From Latin

     baculus

    , a stick, unattached. Hence, an unattached man, which any lady may stick, stick to, or get stuck on.

     BACKBITER

    A mosquito.

     BALANCE

    Something wanted by book-keepers and often lost by topers. May be found in a cash-book or the kangaroo gait.

     BANDIT

    An outlaw. See

     ALDERMAN

    .

     BARBER

    A brilliant conversationalist, who occasionally shaves and cuts hair. Syn. for Phonograph.

     BARS

    Things found in harbors, hotels, fences, prisons, courts and music. (Those found in courts and in music are full of beats).

    BARGAIN

    A disease common to women, caught in the Sunday papers and developed in department stores on Mondays. Symptoms, loud talk, pushing and shoving, a combination prize-fight and foot-ball scrimmage. (Old spelling

     Bark-gain

    ).

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