The herald., 1897-08-18
NOTES OF THE DAY

1t is estimated that greater quantities OF
gold and silver have been sunk in the sea
than are now in circulation on earth.
Catapillars have been doing great deal
of damage to hay and potatoes around
Gainesville Fla. going thoroughly over
one field after another.
There is but one factory in Japan where
leather shoes are made. The natives. ex-
cept those about the court, wear sandals of
straw and wood.
| Farmers about Miller. s. D., have with
avidity chosen helpers from among lot
of boys who went about the state seeking
employment on the farms.
/ The smallest diocese in the world is said
to be that of ST. Helena The bishop, DR..
| Welby. receives salary of 5000, and over
sees three clergymen. Still, he has the
title of bishop.
Burke Perkins. "a years old, whose chill
dren number twenty-four. and whose
grandchildren are uncounted, the other
day welded Mrs. Elizabeth Goings, rs years
Old, in the town of Greenvilie, o.
The clerk of Marion county, Kentucky.
has just received the papers in the case of
the marriage of John Krogniski and Miss
Teresa Stilet of Falcon, in that county.
which occurred twenty-seven years ago.
OF the 250 stamps that have been issued
the values have ranged from l cent to
$4,000. Five dollars is the highest value
among postage stamps, but newspaper
stamps reach the 800 mark, while a rev.
enue stamp may represent $50O0
The famous old windmill at Nantucket
was put up at auction the other day and
was bought by the town Historical society
for $3.50. One private speculator bid against
the society and ran up the price with little
sympathy for the townsmen. The mill was
| built in l147
AS lover of honey bees David M. Kepley
of Louisville has kept a hive in his door
yard. One of the bees alighted on his nose
one day and stung the tip of 1t. His face
turned purple, and for several hours two
| doctors thought he was at the point OF
death. He recovered
John Cory, night watchman in the In
diana box factory at Anderson finding
himself very ill, grasped the rope of the
whistle to summon assistance and fell un-
conscious. His hand still clung to the rope.
and the whistle continued to sound until
the fire department responded.
Fred Parker of Pendleton, Ind, three
years ago, when accused of burglary, for
feited his bond and disappeared Nothing
was heard of him until few days ago.
when he had a leg crushed by street car
at indianapolis. In view of his misfortune
the charge will be nollied.
Spanish and French women of the higher
class are usually expert swordswomen.
They are taught to fence as carefully and
accurately as their brothers. and there are
hume rous schools in the two countries
where young women are taught not only to
fence, but to handle the broadSword.
In 1875 a law was passed prohibiting the
use of the portraits of living men on the
United States stamps, thus placing living
men in the same position that women oc-
cupied. whether dead or alive for no wo-
mans portrait has ever graced stamp
hal erip n limited StafaS naSfaI n
| revenue
| A peculiar instance of impulsive reck-
lessness is reported from Paris, Ark,
where a 16-year-old girl who had been re-
proved by her mother jumped from third
story window, and her 19-year-old sister,
who saw her became excited and imme-
diately jumped out after her. Both were
hurt seriously.
France has just ratified convention
with the shah of Persia by which, in re-
turn for large money payment she OBJ
tains the monopoly of archaeological ex-
cavations in Persia. j. De Morgan, late
director of excavations in Egypt, has been
appointed to superintend the Persian in
vestgations.
William Benson, near Noblesvile. sent
to the department at Washington for q
choice lot of tobacco seed, and he received
a package and planted the seed with great
care. After the plants had grown foot
in height examination showed that the
government had sent him collection Of
mullen weeds instead of tobacco.
In the warmer countries in Europe milk
is now sold in bricks in summer like so
.much ice cream. 1t is frozen solid. and is
broken off in pieces as required. In Copen-
hagen a company has been formed and
arrangements have been completed for the
export of frozen milk. Contracts are al
ready made for the delivery of 10000
pounds per week.
One of the oldest women teachers in the
public schools of Portland, Ore, has the
Klondyke fever and proposes going north.
The clerk of the board of education, a Calf
fornia forty-niner. advises her to take up
a load of candles, cigars and nuts, rather
than to try any other way of making money
or living there. He recalls the visit Of a
woman with such a cargo to a California
camp, and says that she cleared $1,000 be-
tween Saturday and Monday.