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ICE. A substance the world uses to put a damper on swelled heads.

IGNORANCE. A lack of knowledge. For instance: The man who never heard of
a microbe sometimes has the colic, but he never gets appendicitis.
(Milton, page 7.)

IMPOSSIBILITY. A stuttering man trying to make a bluff.

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INCONGRUITY. A man who prays with such noise in Sunday School that he
sprains his voice and then goes home and beats his child for talking too
loud on the Sabbath day.

INDOLENT. A lazy man just before he becomes a loafer.

IRONY OF FATE. A man with an invitation to a beefsteak dinner who has to
stay home because his wife has acute indigestion.

INDIAN COMMISSIONER. The gentleman who invented the idea of opening up
barber shops near the Indian reservations, so that Lo could get his hair
clipped by a reaping machine once every year, whether he needed it or
not.

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The idea of Marconi's wireless telegraph system pales into