Connecticut western news., 1884-12-17
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

bushels daily in New York and as many more in Baltimore. Tho English mar ket takes 10, 900 bushels a week.
 PETER DosEN of St. Louis, wrapped S5 bill around roll of paper and went around showing off what was taken for Q | thousand or so. Next thing he knew he had a cracked skull, and two policeman were taking him to the hospital. He says he will never try to put on airs again.
 A NOVEL mode of aging whisky and other liquors is to place a Maxim or Edison light inside of the barrel. Ex- posture of the liquid to the electric light for hundred hours, it is said, changes the flavor and converts a new liquor into one that resembles a ten-year-old- brand.
 As ONE travels upon the Continent, says an American who was for some years abroad, he will learn that from every port the best articles are dis patched to England and the worst to the United States, but Americans are invariably expected to pay the best prices.
 MASSACHUSETTS, has a rival in the number of marringeable women. Para quay, in South America, has only 8O,O0O men to marry 270,000 women, a veritable woman's kingdom. The men sit at home drinking and smoking, and the women are the farmers, producers and workers.
 THE New York Press Club elected Amos J. Cummings of the Sun Presi- dent. Mir. Cummings is a working journalist and goes to the front as naturally as if he belonged there with out any election at all. He is typo who sets type for fun occasionally, and not because he has to.
 AN indignant New Yorker reveals the ro"t that in that city goats repose on the front steps of brown-stone mansions and occasionally enter theparlors and browse on the wallpaper and pictures. As a consequence, fierce war is raging be- tween the brown-stone aristocracy and the predatory animals.
 SEVERAL papers in Oregon take wheat in payment for subscriptions for adver- tisements, and their prospectus reads about like this: "7he Star of Empire will be sent to any address for five bush. els of No. winter wheat. We have nc use for any other kind. Reading notices inserted at the rate of two bushels pei inch. Come on, noble farmers; our bin is nearly empty"
 EDMUND YATES says in the London
 World: "An officer of the Fourth Illus. sars tells me they have got over forty gentlemen serving as troopers, and ] hear that the Buffs, or what used to be the Buffs, has also got large number of gentlemen privates. This looks as il the service was improving, and seems tc throw new light upon the question oI what is to become of our sons."
 A MEMBER of the British Parliament engaged an agency which does suct things to furnish him with clippings o ali the derogatory things which tho newspapers should say about him for { month. The return was enormous. and cost the member thirty pounds. Fol the following month he bespoke clip pings of all that was printed in his favor and his bill amounted only to sever shillings and sixpence.
 IN New York city there is an army of . office holders. There are 10,832 salaried officials in the city's employ receiving monthly, S917, ,952.40, or an average oi SS4. "A each. In addition to these, there were in September 8, ,224 laborers on the pay-rolls who received S193, ,S60.09, ol an average of S6013 each. There are large number of political strikers on the payroll who only go to the City Hal on the first day of the month to draw their pay.
 SOME years ago Mir. Ruskin told his Oxford pupils that the beautiful and the good were identical, and that it was theil duty to make the world as beautiful a' possible. So he got together lot o undergraduates, and made them takt dreadful VOWS to lead simple life, anC to reclaim a beastly place called Little Hincksey, which was near. To work th' young men set. Their first job was tC make a road, but they soon got tired O
 barrows and pickaxes, and Hincksey Ii as unreclaimed as ever.
 THE other day in the country, after
 marriage ceremony had been performed [ the bridegroom and several friend 3 walked down to the spring. els h outen' hearen ?" asked the bride "Yes," some one replied, "Wall, than
 the Lord, it's over. I've been CT try.n
 to hem that follor up for more than tei
 years. an have just succeeded. I wante say to you wimmen folks-Don't giv , up. Recollock whut the Bible says, 'i
 you don't git what you air airter at fust 3 keep peggin' away till you git thar f FREDERICK ARCHER, the celebrates !. English jockey, now on visit to thi , country, is twenty-eight years old, 'm |, short, of quiet and indifferent demeanol l and dressed in black. He has mounte more horses than any other Englishmau ,. and has won the Derby three times an,
 the St. Leger four times. His fathe also was Jockey. He says that Nh & Pierre Lorillard's Iroquois is eth n noblest animal I ever mounted, kind
 gentle, and winning. When ] won tn
 Derby with Iroquois, Mir. Loriilar,
 gave me $5,000, which was quite uu
 usual"
 TIE THREE R's.-The Washington ! Capitol interviewed prominent politi ' cian who said asked Mir. Blaine hoy it happened that he failed to rebuke Dr I p,,robord on tha sr,ot and whether