Connecticut western news., 1879-01-22
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Anderson, at Brooklyn, N. Y., that of walking 2,700 quarter miles in 2,700 quarter hours. To accomplish the task seems an impossibility nevertheless, this woman accomplished it, and ap- peared not to suffer seriously during the walk. During the four weeks that she was engaged in walking, she slept but few moments at time, of course, as in each quarter of an hour during the
 time she must walk quarter of mile. Sometimes she would appear to be asleep on the track, and often she was fast asleep when lifted by her attendants and placed on the track. On being summoned for the 2,700th quarter-the last-at 10:45, she bounded from her room and fairly flew around the track with 8 square heel and toe movement.
 Two men ran ahead of her to keep Q pathway open through the black mass
 of men who filled the rink. Two fol-
 lowed her to sec that the open line was not closed. They all had to run to keep out of the woman's way. The roaring
 voices in the hall actually drowned the discordant blowing of the brass band.
 When tho last quarter mile was finished i and the time announced as 2:372, the fastest made during her walk, the uproar
 was simply terrific. The woman was then taken to her home and given
 Turkish bath and allowed to sleep, being awakened every hour. If allowed to sleep she would, her physicians say, | never awaken. At the end of each hours sleep she must be awakened, until such time as she can be safely allowed to indulge in long rest. The proprietor of every newspaper in his district is remembered by the member of Congress, and the newspaper man does not forget the member, and appreciates his kindness. Here is one
 token of thankfulness from Wisconsin
 paper: We are under obligations to the
 Hon. 0. G. Williams for half dozen
 volumes of Congressional Records.
 We already have several hundred of
 these interesting volumes in our little
 library, but they have been read and re-
 read so many times that we know every
 page of them by heart. These new
 volumes came opportunely on New
 Years morning, and that nigh! we gath
 cred our little family around the bright
 fireside and read one of them through
 to them. The affecting tale entitled,
 "A bill to change the name of the
 Braidwood National Bank" seemed to
 touch every heart, and when we came to
 the climax of that little story about
 "The bill to define certain legal terms, ;
 there was not dry eye between the
 front door and Addin Kaye's stable.
 We can never sufficiently thank MT.
 Williams for the innocent amusement
 thus furnished us. The memory of that
 happy evening will finger in our minds
 long after the present Congress shall
 have been adjourned.
 The acreage of corn ill the United
 States as found by the June returns of
 the Agricultural Bureau at Washington,
 shows, in round numbers, 51, GOO, ,00G
 acres in 1878, against 50, 300, GOO acres fol
 1877. The oats crop is somewhatin excess
 of the very large crop of 1877, constitut- ing it the largest crop everraised in this country. The total product of barley foi the year 1878, was, in round numbers. 42, GOO, 900 bushels, while in 1877 the croE was 34, 500, 900 bushels. The returns ol the potato crop show Q large decline in the product for 1878, as compared with 1877. The average yield of potatoes of the whole untry will be 69 bushels pel acre, against 94 bushels in 1877, thu making total product, in round mum bers, of PA, 100000 bushels for 1878 against 170,GOo,O ,O0O in 1877. The ha. crop is 20 per cent. greater than las :, year. The apple crop shows an increase' yield in all the New England States New York, Texas and the Pacific States In all the other States it shows failing off, Missouri reporting less than half c last years crop.
 S Of the 1899 marriages which too g place in New York city last year, abou @ one-quarter were of women or girl
 under twenty years of age. Of all tn g grooms, however, less than two hur d dred were short of twenty years. Thi ,r is about the usual proportion, in nol
 thern climates at least, and it indicate Il that most men before they assume tn
 responsibilities of matrimony, wait unt s they have at least reached the age (
 legal manhood, have got over boyis ,e thoughts, have gained some maturity (
 character, and are so fixed in life as
 be able to support wife. Italso show
 that girls, when they really fall seriousl M. in love, are likely to fasten their affe' tions on men, not striplings. In som r of the New England States last year tn r average age of men marrying for u ;, first time was nearly twenty-eight. The ,o were high averages, and they indicate ~ good deal of deliberation on the part ~ the men, That men generally cho z. wives younger than themselves we kno ,.. very we'll from personal observation ,1 but it is interesting to find from u statistics of marriages that the diffe 's u ence between the ages of brides al M grooms IS on the average about the sar VI from year to year, the women bei1 M sa from three to five years younger tn ,'' the men. Thus in Massachusetts it " at W just four years in 1877, and that difft ". ence, with little variation has been mai an m tained for long time past.
 Ills In pleasant note to Q Boston paE tly Capt. R. B. Forbes recalls an incide he connected with the sailing of one of