Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 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 ony\one of our cities is found in Boston, 38,294. 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 flnxseeed in your pocketbook. They will find a cinder or speck of dirt iu your sye in a moment, almost, 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 or papers with large patterns have the opposite effect.

Charlemagne possessed a table cloth woven from asbestos. He used to its touish his guests after dinner by gathering it up and throwing- it into the fire, front whence he drew it eleaused from gravy and other grease. A heavenly census is now being taken by the I’aris Observatory; to count tlie starts the hea veus 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 ortvn earth, it is, compared with the size of the visn>le "mnveT.se, tnerely- as a-drop in tlie 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 riiby, 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 Logis" lature have passed a bill to protect newspapermen 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 monarchs who are entitled to ride at the head of English cavalry regiments—the Czar, who is colonel in chief of the Scots grays; tlie Emperor William, whose regiment is the First Royal dragoons, and the Emperor of Austria. Augustin Daly is to have a dinner tendered him by the Shakspeare society of New York iu recognition of his eminent a nil successful services In mounting and production, during tlie past twenty-five yea-s, of the most splendid revival of Shakspearean comedy ever attempted. The first edition or I’rof. C. A. Young’s work on "The Sun.” published in 1881. mentions twenty-one elements as liavliig D'wssi detected by the spectroscope in the sun. I* «li of these 860 lines had been Identified. The new edition of Prof. (Young's book states that Prof. Rowland has now compared sixty elements with the solar spectrum, and established tlie existence of thlrtyeigjit of them in tlie sun. being doubtful in regard to eight of the others. Of iron lines alone he has identified more than rwo thousand. ,