The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-17
NOTES OF THE DAY.


A New York insurance company is
getting "a good deal of lucrative bust
ness in China.
The Dominion of, Canada has sent
100000 to the sufferers by famine and
plague in India.
The value of the house property of
London is S., S65, 0000 600, that of Paris
81, $780, 100000. that of New York $1.355,-
600, 600.
1t is estimated that greater quaint
ties Of gold and silver have been sunk
in the sea than are now in circulation
on earth. 53
caterpiIlars haye been doing a great
deal of damage to hay and potatoes
around Gainesville, Fla, going thor
oughly over one field after another.
There is but one factory ia japan
where leather shoes are made. The
natives, except those about the courte
wear sandals of straw and wood.
Farmers about Miller, S. D., have
with avidity chosen helpers from
among a 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 a salary
Of $500, and oversees three clergymen.
Burke Perkins, Cd years old, whose
children number "a and whose grand
children are uncounted, the other day
welded Mrs. Elizabeth Goings. rs
years old, in the town of Greenville, O.
| The clerk of Marion county, Ken
lucky. has Just received the papers in
the case of the marriage of John Krog-
nisEi and Miss Teresa Stiliet of Falcon.
in that county, which occurred 81 years
ago.
OF the $50 stamps which. have been
| issued the values have ranged from l
cen. to $1,000. Five dollars is the
| highest value among postage stamps,
| but newspaper stamps reach the $500
mark, while a revenue stamp may rep
resent $1,000
The famous old windmill at Nan
tucket was put at auction, the other
| day, and was bought by the town his
toricai society for 1856. One private
speculator bid against the society and
ran up the price with little sympathy
| from the townsren. The mill was
built in 1747.
AS lover of honey bees David NJ.
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 it. His face turned
purple and for several hours two doc
tors thought he was at the point Of
death. He recovered.
John CORY, night watchman in the
Indiana box factory at Anderson, find
ing himself very i'll, grasped the rope
Of the whistle to summon assistance,
and fell unconscious. His hand still
chung to the rope, and the whistle con-
timed to sound until the fire depart
| merit responded.
Fred Parker of Pendleton, Ind, three
years ago, when accused of burglary,
forfeited his bond and disappeared.
Nothing was heard of him until a few
days ago. when he had a leg crushed
by a street car at Indianapolis. In view
os his misfortune the charge will be
nollied.
Spanish and French women of the
higher class are usually expert swords
women. They are taught to fence as
carefully and accurately as their broth
ers. and there are numerous schools in
the two countries where young women
are taught not only to f6ce. but to
handle the brcadsword.
In 1875 a law was passed prohibiting
the use of the portraits of living men
on the United States stamps; thus plac-
ing living men in the same position thai
women occupied, whether dead or alive
for no woman's portrait has ever graced
| stamp pSloiSl Ing 10 the CHlteu states
postal or revenue.
peculiar instance of impulsiye reck-
lessness is reported from Paris, Ark
where 16year-old girl who had beer
; reproved by her mother, jumped out
, of third story window, and her 49,
year-old sister, who saw her. became
excited and Immediately jumped our
after her. Both were hurt seriously
France has just ratified convention
: with the shah of Persia by which. IL
: return for large money payment, she
, obtains the monopoly of archaeological
excavations in Persia. J. De Morgan
late, director of excavations in Egypt
! has been appointed to superintend thu
i Persian investigations.
S William Benson. near NobleSvilIe
sent to the department at Washington
for choice lot of tobacco seed. and. h
received package and planted tn,
D seed with great care. After the plants
] had grown foot in height, examina