The Springdale news., 1889-04-26
DISTANT rpINGs.


 fs France experiments are being made with cork car springs.
 TIE Royal Academy in London has defi- aitely decided not to open its doors on Sun days.
 A FRENCH soldier at Gran, Algeria, has just been condemned to death for striking 8 superior officer with quid of tobacco. A RUSSIAN joint stock company is build Ing an immense loat theater to float up and down the Volga river Performances are to be given at every large town. A CURIOUS old custom is still in vogue in the old Yorkshire town of Ripon. At that place the curfew horn is blown every night at nine o'clock by man in uniform. SHEEP for one penny each seems ridicu- lous. Yet, owing to the drought of the last six months in Australia, 50O00 sheep were recently sold in Melbourn at that price.
 THE King ef Sweden, or. his sixtieth birth. day, offered prize to be contested for by all the geometricians of the world. Poin- carre, . member of the French Academy of Sciences, won 1t.
 NEW religious sect has been formed in the town of Zwickan. Germany the members of which call themselves "Free Brethren in Christ" They reject infant baptism, and believe in an early reappearance of Christ on tNe earth. '
 THE electricians of the Paris exrosition have, it s said, devised method by which the waters from the hidden fountains will be Illuminated by electric light, with tho re- suit of producing very elaborate and ar tstic effects in color.
 CEYLoN people are inter ested in rivalry as to who shall find the highest palm tree l,,;1 made the first record at 10 feet, but Mir. Patron-Cray has just shown palm IF feet high, and takes the medal
 A BISMARCK museum is to be established on Unter den Linden, not far from the Ho- henzollern museum. The Iron Chancellor will himself contribute sople historical treasures, and an appeal will be made to the public for gifts of lIeepsakes and mementoes of him.
 THE lance. which once played an important part in warfare, iS likely to find general re- adoption in several European armies. It is picturesque, and could doubtless be made effective in the hands tf cavalry, but it is scarcely probable that it will supersedo the weapons which have been so long in use for hand to hand conflicts
 ACCORDING to q financial contcmpor the tANNSt'aNA osition made by a acompany recently formed Tn St Petersburg for the construction of canal to connect the Black Sea with the Sea of Azof The canal will be one hundred and eleven versts long and will afford passage to steamers drawing notmore tran nineteen feet.
 THE Chinese frequently place little metal idols within the shells of molluscs, remov- ing them several years afterwards covered with substance resembling pearl; they also lay strings of small pearls, separated by knots, inside the shells, and, on takin z them out, after a lapse of some years, ob- tain large and costly pearls.
 AN American girl who was presented at the Queens drawing-room recently was so embarrassed that she made quite faux pas. She wholly ignored the QTeen until after she had saluted the Princess of Wales, when she suddenly turned around an astonished her Majesty by saying: "Oh, l beg yoTr pardon madam" grabbed her royal hand, kissed it, and then hurried along the line The Queen, who is terrible stickler about matters of etiquette, at first looked angry, then, catching a sight of the amused smile of the Princess of Wales, she burst into a pleasant laugh and sent the disdomfited de- butante away with few kindly words.