[on vocabulary errors] … and helpmates for meet-helps—the difference of the meaning of the two words is so obvious, that it is surprising it should have escaped attention.—A person may be a helpmate and at the same time be very far from being a help-meet, which is here intended.

The left brain, or that which supplies and animates the right side of the body, is the most active brain, as a general rule.

That band was ill.

The fire engine, presented to the town in 1700, was frequently in service, and compulsory thatch rakes, for pulling burning thatch from buildings, hung on the fronts of buildings with a tub of water beneath.