The Springdale news., 1889-08-02
SUMMARY OF EVENTS.

Los ASGELEs. Cal, has decided to build sewer to the sea, at a cost of S6, Oo0,oe1.
 Ara New York wedding the other day the bride received one million dollars worth of presents.
 IF is reported that floating island three hundred yards in diameter has been found in Honey Lake, I. T.
 TIE flood dumped fully s20o,000 worth of lumber. which can not be identified, on farm near Milton, Pa.
 TEN thousand eight hundred and ten per- sons ascenued to the top of the Washing ton monument during the month ot May
 NEARLY every country is to hold Maj 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 q couple whose ages loot up one hundred and thrty-hyc 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 tune IS utterly impossible. The shockls so forcloIe that it throws one aside with vigor A SMALL creek at Blossburg, Pa, ripped up the mountain side during the flood ram" page, and revealed good vein of coal and two of iron orc, ono being over four feet ' | T zg fs.A g.lst, rslFNY n N q 1i- uable bank of building and molding sand
 A CURIOUS walking match took place at Portsmouth, O., the other morning be- tween q merchant, formerly Of Cincinnati and a clerk IL was to decide which would wed a fair young lady to whom both gentle men had been paying attention. They | walked five miles, the merchant winning by fifty feet.
 ' DURING the first six months of the pres ent year there have been about 300 strikes, involving about 75,000 men, against 4OO V strikes and nearly ll5,O00 men in the same period in 1888. In the first SIX months Of 1887 the strikes were over 300 in f, and more than 100000 men engaged ID them.
 JUDGING from the rush for timber land in Washington Territory, it's forests are uOUutu lC 5pCtuF hCoAl hN NLAOA'' @AO f@~N'NNAS recently two townships Of valuable timber land in Skagit County were thrown open to entry, anl the land office was blocked with flers In few hours over one hundred l timber claims were filed.
 TEE members of the Montauk Club, ot Brooklyn, recently went through genuine Chinese dinner. The chief of the occasion WAS q Celestial the walters were from Hong Kong, the dinner was prepared and served in the Pekiu style, the guests used ivory chopsticks, the beverages were Chinese, the menu was inscribed on fan of red flrccrackcr paper, and the banquet ing hall was decorated with pictures from the fowery kingdom.
 Ar Mount Clemens, Mich, tho other day all hands took a ride at the school .gradu- ating exercises. One scholar recited Paul Reveres Ride;n another, The King oi Denmarks Ride;n another, The Bicycle RIde," and then came "Sherdan's Ride. ' .Wnitman's Ride, "The Ride from Ghen' to Alx,n John Gilpin's Ride" "LqcHin- vars Ride" ''Thc JohnstoWn Paul Re vcre," and "A Railroad Ride" Tae muslC was: "Were Galloplng, GaLopinE On,' apd stRpnt Ri9p Spupff