Show NOTES OF THE DAY A New York insurance company is getting a good deal of lucrative business busi-ness in China The Dominion ofv Canada has sent 200000 to the sufferers by famine and I I plague in India The value of the house property of London Is 3365000000 that of Paris 1430000000 that of New York 1355 000000 I is estimated that greater quantities quanti-ties of gold and silver have been sunk in the sea than are now in circulation on earth S t ii j 5 Caterpillars havft ieen doing a great deal of damage Jto hay and potatoes around Gainesville Fla going thoroughly thor-oughly over one field after another There is but one factory in Japan where leather shoes are made The natives except those about the courtr wear sandals of straw and wood Farmers about Miller S D have with avidity chosen helper from among a lot of boys who went about the state seeking employment on the farms The smallest dilfc > ces In the world is said to be that of r St Helena The bishop Dr Welby receives a salary of S900 and oversees three clergymen overees cergmen Still he has the lt of bishop Burke Perkinte Siyears old whose I children number 24 and whose grandchildren grand-children are uncounted the other day wedded Mrs Elizabeth Goings 76 years old in the town of Greenville O The clerk of Marion county Kentucky Ken-tucky has just received the papers in the case of the marriage of John Krog niski and Miss Teresa Stiliut of Falcon in that county which occurred 27 years ago I Of the 250 stamps which have been issued the values have ranged from 11 cent to 5000 Five dollars is the highest value among postage stamps I but newspaper stamps reach the 100 mark while a revenue stamp may represent rep-resent 5000 S 1 The famous old windmill at Nantucket I Nan-tucket was put at auction the other day and was bought by the town historical his-torical society for 885 One private speculator bid against the society and ran up the price with little sympathy from the townsmen The mill was built in 1747 As a lover of honev bees David 1I Kepley of Louisville has kept a hive I in his door yard One of the bees I alighted on his nose one day and alghted I stung the tip of i His face turned purple and for several hours two doctors doc-tors thought he was at the point of death He recovered Jhn Corv nisht watchman in the Indiana box factory at Anderson finding find-ing himself very ill grasped the rope cf the whistle to summon assistance and fell unconscious His hand still clung to the rope and the whistle continued con-tinued to sound until the fire denart mOat responded Fred Parker of Pendleton Ind three ears aso when accused of bursrlary 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 of his misfortune the charge will be nollied Spanish and French women of the higher class are usually expert swords women rues are taught to fence as carefully and accurately as their brothers broth-ers and there are numerous schools in the two countries where young women are taught not only to f < ffce but to handle the broadsword In 1873 a lw was cassed prohibiting the use of the portraits of living men on the United States stamps thus placing plac-ing living men in the same position that women occupied whether dead or alive for no womans portrait has ever graced a stamp belonging to the United States postal or revenue A peculiar instance of Impulsive recklessness reck-lessness is reported from Paris Ark where I 16yearold girl who had been reproved by her mother jumped out I O a third star window and her 19 yearold sister who saw her became excited and immediately jumped out after her Both were hurt seriously France his just ratified a convention with the shah of Persia by which in return for a large money payment she obtains the monopoly of archaeological excavations Jn Persia J De Morgan late director of excavations in Esypt has been appointed to superintend the Persian InvestigatIons William Benson near Nobleville sent to the department at Washington fora choice lot of tobacco seed and he received a package and planted the seed with great care After the plants had grown a toot in l height examina i lion showed that the government had gent him su cpllectiori of mullein weeds instead of coIn co-In tbe warmer countries of Europe mUk is now sdld in bricks in summer like so much ice cream I Is frozen solid and is broken off in pieces a required re-quired In Copenhagen a company has been formed and arrangements have been completed for the kxport of frozen milk Contracts are already made for the delivery of 110000 pounds per week |