“So old Doctor Quill is dead,” said Mrs. Partington, as she put an extra piece of butter on her bread. “They do say that he died of information* of his brain; but they mustn’t try to make be believe sich an unprobable story as that – information on the brain, truly! Why, he was the greatest fool I know on! I can’t help laughing at his presumptuous ignorance. Why, didn’t he, at one of his lectures one cold night last winter, try to make be believe, together with the rest of a large respectable ordinance, that the sun was then nearer the earth than it would be in the hottest day in summer? – and didn’t he try to suppose on my mind, when he called on me, that time is money? O, the dolt! Why, there’s Cousin Slow (he has his whole time – he never was known to do anything) and the world knows how poor he is. O, you can’t make be believe sich stuff! I wonder what will carry me off, if he died of information?” and she arose from the table flushed with excitement.

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*Notes about the transcript: -

`information of the brain' is likely to mean `inflammation of the brain'.
sich = such
ordinance = audience

The article obviously written colloquially to emphasise the ignorance of the speaker

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