Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1892 — Current Notes. [ARTICLE]

Current Notes.

The biggest income in Germany is. that of Herr h rupp, the cannon maker. There are twenty Bepresenlatives in Congress who are under 36 years of age. Barbers gamble with the money earned by shaving dead men. It brings Luck, they say. It is stated that Mr. Edison employs 200 women in the more delicate details as his electrical inventions. The poet Burns spelled his name Burness (his family name) until the publication of his poems, in 1786. It is estimated that there are less than 10,000 papers in the Japanese empire. with its population of 237,000,000. The people upon the two oontinents>f North and South America, without the Arctic, regions, -are only eight tothe square mile. There will be a building at the World’s Fair where a woman fan leave aer baby and get a check for it while (he sees the show. Italian, titles are not very expensive. That of prince costs only $13,000; that it duke $10,000; marquis, $8,000; count, 15,000; viscount or baron, $4,000.