The Springdale news., 1889-08-09
SUMMARY OF EVENTS.

Los ANGELES, Cal, has decided to build 8 sewer to the sea, at a cost of S6, 00O,0OO.
 Ara New York wedding the other day the bride received one million dollars worth of presents.
 Ir is reported that floating island three | hundred wards in diameter has been found in Honey Lake, l. I.
 TIE flood dumped fully s2o0,O00 worth of lumber, which can not be identified, on a farm near Milton, Pa.
 TEN thousand eight hundred and ten per sons ascenued to the top of the Washing ton monument during the month of May.
 NEARLY every country is to hold Ma tional exhibition to celebrate the semi-cen- tennial of the discovery of photography. Italy is the latest to be heard from
 AN eclipse of the sun occurred on the 2oth of last June, but it was visible no further north than Southern Arabia. It was annu- lar only over portion of Southern Africa.
 ABOUT five thousand people have received railroad passes to leave JohnstoWn. Some of them have been sent as far as New Mexico.
 A MARRIAGE license was issued at Pitts burgh Tuesday to a couple whose ages loot up one hundred and thrty-tive years Both have been married before.
 A WELL. of so-called electrical water has been tapped at Fort Scott, Kan. To place both hands in the water at the same time IS utterly impossible The shock is So forcible that it throws one aside with vigor N A SMALL creek at Blossburg, Pa, ripped up the mountain side during the flood ram page, and revealed a good vein of coal and two of iron orc, one being over four feet thick, splendid bed of fire-clay and val uable bank of building and molding sand. V A CURIOUS walking match took place at Portsmouth, O., the other morning be- tween merchant, formerly of Clnclnnau and a clerk It was to decide which would wed a fair young lady to whom both gentle W men had been paying attention. They walked five miles, the merchant winning by fifty feet.
 W DURING the first six months of the pres ent year there have been about 300 strikes involving about 75,0OO men, against 4OC ' strikes and nearly 1l5,0OO men in the same period in lSSS. In the first SIX months o1 1887 the strikes were over 300 in number and more than 100000 men engaged in them.
 V JUDGING from the rush for timber land i'll Washington Territory its forests are doomed to speedy destruction. At Seattle recently two townships of valuable timber \ land in Skagit County were thrown open tC entry, an the land office was blocked Witf tlers In few hours over one hundred timber claims were filed.
 TIE members of the Montauk Club, oI t Brooklyn, recently went through a genuine \ Chinese dinner. The chief of the occasion was a Cepstal, the walters were iron Hong Kong, the dinner was prepared ant served in the Pekin style, the guests used ivory chopsticks, the beverages were Chinese, the menu was inscribed on a far ' of red firccracker paper, and tho banquet ing hall was decorated with pictures iron \ the floWery kingdom.
 Ar Mount Clemens, Mich, the other da, all hands took q ride at the school gradu # ating exercises. One scholar rccited Pau J Reyere's Ride" another, The King Q Denmark's Ride;" another, The Bicycl, Ride" and then came "Sherldans Ride, Whitman Ride, The Ride from Chen to Aix,n "John Gilpins Ridc,' "LQchn vars Ride" 'Thc Johnstown Paul Rc were" and "A Railroad Ride" The musr was: "We'rc Galloping, Galloping On, and Boat Ride Song.'