Nevertheless, we do not recall that it was a newspaper which gave currency to obsolete words like “commensals” or extraordinary ones like “vastated,” or called a woman who lives in New York a “New Yorkeress,” or described a man as having a “plangent” voice, or referred to a table-d’hôte dinner as being “prefatorily furnished” with olives.]

In most of the grand Articles, these slow-paced Societies afford us but little Comfort; and return Ignoramus upon many an Enquiry: whilst a Blacksmith will easily show you the Philosopher's Stone ; every Apothecary help us to a Panacæa ; every Watchmaker to the perpetual Motion ; and every Pilot to the Longitude.

And it is hereby enacted, that in any zillah, in which the Governor in Council of Fort St. George deems it expedient to establish the zillah court, and the court or courts under subordinate judges or principal sudder ameens, at separate stations, it shall be competent to the said Governor in Council, by an Order in Council, to authorize the session judge to take cognizance of all criminal cases subject ordinarily to the jurisdiction of the subordinate courts, […]

My brother's name was Caleb Peck. What a fine old-fashioned name, said Mrs. Tabor.