Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 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 160 feet high buMt entirely of glaas bricks. From Bologna and Berne, as well a« from fictitious universities in the United States, fraudulent medical degree* are being issued. Oapt.. Slocum of Boston, with Ids thlr-teen-tou sloop Spray, has reached Newcastle, New South Wales, on his solitary sail around the world. Food Is served In oue of the London restaurants on electrically heated plate* so that the guests can eat leisurely and still have the viands continue warm until the close of the meal. A Colorado genius claim* that he hag found a way to telegraph without wire* from oue mountain top to another In an cast ami west direction, using atmoepherlc strata which are already electrified as his conductor. The apparatus employed Ims not been publicly described, but the Inventor Is said to be ex|>erlmenting In Colorado and Utah, and he says he has transmitted message* by Ids method over a distance of eightjf miles. The case of Mr. Newcomb and other* whose hands have been damaged by continuous exposure to “X" rays recall* that the World has several times suggested the Intimate connection between! these rays and heat. If accepted theories are correct the only difference la . oue of vibration, and further experiment will probably show that X ray* In excess have to a limited extent th* same dlsorganialng effect on animal tissue that Is produced by excessive heat.—New York World. The most highly paid ruler 1* the Emperor of Russia, who'receives, say* th* Bolden Penny, the nice little salary of £2,200,000 per annum. The Sultan of Turkey gets £1.400,000 a year; the Emperor of A iistrla manages with £912,600, while Emperor William only receives £780,000 a year. still Is ths King of Italy with £686,000, while Queen Victoria has exactly the same Income, which Is unfair, seeing how much greater her empire Is. The President of tho French Republic gets £488,000, but the King of the Belgians cau only boast of £120,000.