Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1897 — LIVE TOPICS OF TO-DAY. [ARTICLE]

LIVE TOPICS OF TO-DAY.

The French National Library has 72,000 books on the French revolution. A Liverpool glass manufacturer has a chimney at his factory 150 feet high built entirely of glass bricks. From Bologna and Berne, as well aa from fictitious universities in the United States, fraudulent mtslical degrees are being issued. Capt. Slocum of Boston, with his thlr-teen-ton sloop Spray, has reached Newcastle, New South Wales, on his solitary sail around the world. Fowl is served in one of the London restaurants on electrically heated plates so that the guests can eat leisurely and still have the viands continue warm until the close of the meal. A Colorado genius claims that he has found a way to telegraph without wires from oue mountain top to another la an east and west direction, using atmospheric strata which are already electrified as his conductor. The apparatus employed has not been puDlicly described, but the Inventor Is said to be experimenting in Colorado and Utah, and he says he has transmitted messages by his method over a distance of eighty miles. The case of Mr. Newcomb and others whose hands have been damaged by continuous exposure to “X” rays recalls that the World has several times suggested the intimate connection between these rays and heat. If accepted theories are correct the only difference is one of vibration, and further experiment will probably show that X rays In excess have to a limited extent the same disorganizing effect on animal tissue that is produced by excessive heat.—New York World. The most highly paid ruler Is the Emperor of Russia, who receives, says the Golden Penny, the nice little salary of £2,200,000 per annum. The Sultan of Turkey peror of Austria manages with £912,500, while Emperor William only receives £730,000 a year. Lower still Is the King of Italy with £585,000, while Queen Victoria has exactly the same income, which is unfair, seeing how much greater her empire is. The President of the P reneh Republic gets £438,000, but the King of the Belgians can only boast of £120,000.