Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1896 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

St. Louis has more Germans than live in any city of Germany except the ten largest. The greatest number of BritishAmericans in any one of our cities is found in Boston, 35.294. To be perfectly proportioned it is claimed that a man should Weigh twen-ty-eight pounds to every foot of his height. When you travel, carry flaxseeed in your pocketbook. They will find a cinder or speck of dirt in your eye in a moment, almost, and save you a world of pain. When papering a small room it is well to remember that blue in all light shades makes a room look larger. Dark colors oivpapcrs with large patterns have the opposite effect. Charlemagne possessed a table cloth woven from asbestos. He used to astoulsli his guests after dinner by gathering it up and throwing it into the fire, from whence he drew it cleansed from gravy and other grease. A heavenly census is now being taken by the Paris Observatory; to count the stars the heavens are photographed in sections. Some of these sections show only a dozen stars, while others of the same dimensions show over 1,500. J. E. Gore, writing on the “Size of the Solar System,” says that “enormously large as the solar system absolutely is, compared with the size of our own earth, it is, compared with the size of the visible universe, merely as a drop in the ocean.”

The crown of the Czar of Russia which was worn at the coronation is valued at nearly $450,000. On its top is a ruby, surmounted by a cross of five magnificent diamonds, and the rest of it is fairly covered with diamonds and pearls. Both houses of the Maryland Legislature have passed a bill to protect newspaper men from being compelled to divulge either before a court or grand jury the source of any confidential information given them in the course of their employment. There are now three reigning monarclus who are entitled to ride at the head of English cavalry regiments—the Czar, who is colonel in chief of the Scots grays;' the Emperor William, whose regiment is the First Royal dragoons, and the. Emperpr of'Austria, Augustin Daly is to have a dinner tendered liim by the Shakspeare society of X(>.w York in recognition of his eminent mounting and production, during the past years, of the most ‘splendid revival of Shakspeureun comedy ever attempted. The first Sdltion of Prof. C. A. Y'oung’s work.,,on ‘•The Sun," published iu 1881. metltijfvns twenty-one elements as having been,detected by the spectroscope in the sun. irj «11 of these 800 lines had been identified. The nerw edition of Prof. Young’s book states that Prof. Rowland has now compared sixty elements with the solar spectrum, the existence of thirtyeight of thenf’iu clpubtful iu regard to eight of (M dfiierSs* Of iroit lines lias identified more than two thousand. •: