Connecticut western news., 1884-04-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

| the battle of Teb said they knew noth- ing of the English forces, had never heard of their victory over Arabi, had never heard of Arabi himself, and had never heard of Tewfik.
 ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS ARE SEP ARATED from each other by the Missls sippi River, but are now, in all but the mode of government, one city. In tue past year 6,700 buildings have been erected at cost of SIT, ,494, 900.
 A LONDON CORRESPONDENT AT BERLIN writes that Prince Bismarck's exaspera- ton against Minister Sargent is aggra- vated by his intimacy with Frederick Kapp, once of New York, and recog- nized members of the opposition.
 JACOB EYLER, OF TRoTwoop, OHIO, aged 72 years, a very wealthy man, com mitted suicide because he feared that he would have to pay a neighbor $l0O damages, resulting from an overflow of water from one of the ditches on his farm.
 JOSEPH MCCAIN, A ooStPosIToR on the N. Y. Herald, in one hour set 2,060 ems of solid minion type, and in the second 2,013 ems. George Arensberg, on the N. Y. Times, in one hour, on Feb. 19, 1870, set 2,064 ems of solid minion. This is fast work.
 IT HAVING BEEN ASSERTED THAT THE French General Schramm, 95, who late Iy died, was the oldest General, a Bel gian paper says that Antwerp can pro- duce one yet older, 96, who took part in the retreat from Moscow, land is still able to enjoy life.
 A BOY WAS SENTENCED BY Laporte, Ind, jury to four years imprisonment at hard labor for stealing a suit of clothes. A jury in the same town and on the following day gave Henry Au- gustine only five years imprisonment for the murder of his uncle and cousin.
 UxBR1DaE, MASS, HAS WOMAN who makes her own dresses, plays the piano votes for school committeeman and sits on the board herself, milks the COWS and makes and markets butter; she can also chop wood, hoe corn, swing the scythe and expects some day to vote for Presi- dent.
 l LIVERPOOL IS THE GREATEST SHIPPING port of the world, its annual tonnage being 2,647,372 tons. London is the next port, with 2,33O, 6SS tons. Glas- gow ranks third, with 1,432, ,354. New York comes fourth on the list of shipping ports of the world with tonnage of l, ,153, ,676.
 E. D. WNDsLow, WHO ACHIEVED fame as forger in Boston, is now a very big man in Buenos Ayres, owning and edit ing a newspaper of that city. He also owns blocks of buildings, drives the fastest pair of horses in the city, has un- limited credit, and is considered an esti- mable citizen.
 THE OLDEST TOWN IN THE United States is Ysleta, the chief town of the county of that name in Texas. It has a population of 2,5O0 souls. A Spanish military explorer, named 'Corando, visited the town in 1540, and found it then popular and prosperous civilized Indian community.
 GEORGE MUNRO, THE PUBLISHER of cheap novels, says the public have mis- leading notions as to the circulation and profit of these "Libraries. He adds |: I have had to take back million and a half copies at a time from the news companies. The first edition of book seldom exceeds 1000 copies.
 NEARLY FIFTY YEARS AGO woman named Lois Lyman, of Cabot, Vt, be- gan to plait the combings of her hair into a rope. It was half an inch thick and of various shades, the hair having changed materially during the half cen tury. When she died few days ago the rope was nearly 100 feet long.
 THERE IS GOOD sToR Y OF AN old and unsuccessful dramatic author who drifted into very indigent circumstances. He had son in a prosperous business, who made him an allowance for his SUD- port. When asked by his friends how he was getting on he always said, "0h, I am living on my authors rights"
 DR. OrTo KRUMMEL, OF GoTrNeEN. who has been Investigating the area of oceans, estimates the superfcies of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans at 194, 787, 425 square miles, and the total superfcies of all the seas on the globe at 23l 1915, ,9O5, while the total super ficies of the continents and islands he puts at 34 ,354. $50 square miles.