Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1892 — People and Events. [ARTICLE]

People and Events.

Thebe is an oil craze at Tacoma, Wash. Of the foreign merchants in China only twenty-seven are Americans. The genuine Shetland pony can be bought on its native heath for about S4O. A new ocean cable is to be laid between Pernambuco, Brazil, and Senegal, Africa. It is controlled by English capital. The output of asbestos from the Canadian mines last year was 8,000 tons. It is said tliat more money is spent for eggs than for flour in the United States. \ Immense flock of crows have exterminated the grasshopper pest in some parts of California. The famine in Russia; has seriously affected work upon the construction of the transsiberian railway. The new Swiss railway—the Brenzer Rothbornbahn—is the highest in the Alps. It is 7,536 feet at the summit level.