Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1896 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

The German parliament house was built with the money extorted from France after the war of 1871. Nearly one-tenth of the deaths In Valparaiso are from pneumonia. In Bombay the deaths from the same disease are in the ratio of only twenty-six in 10,000. It costs Great Britain' - $20,000 J to scrape the barnacles off the bottom of one of its big men-o’-war and repaint it, and this has to'be done twice a year in the case of nearly every vessel. The most expensive thermometer in the world is in use at Johns Hopkins University. It is an absolutely correct instrument, with graduations on the glass so fine that it is necessary to use a miscroscope to read them. It is valued at SIO,OOO.