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PERSIAN TEMPLE COMING HERE.
Is 2,000 Years Old and Will Be Shipped in Sections. 

Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN.
LONDON, Jan. 31.-L. Kevorkian, a noted Persian excavator, who controls concession for excavating buried Persian cities south of Teheran, is going to New York with two or three hundred pieces of Persian pottery said to be from 2,000 to 5,000 years old. He will also take a remarkable praying temple, which is said to be 2,00 years old. It will be shipped in three sections. All the pieces are wonderfully enamelled. There are two small pieces and one small pot eight inches high which are valued at $80,000. Another piece is an urn which is said to be worth $60,000.

Mr. Kevorkian says the collection is the result of excavations in the past two years and that he intends to exhibit it in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. Mr. Kevorkian supplied Sir William Van Horne with a collection of Persian pottery. 

Paintings on Face Latest Fad.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 20. - Fashionable women in St. Petersburg are painting tiny figures on their faces and necks. Elephants, trees, and geometrical designs are the commonest patterns. This revival of the idea of the old beauty patch was introduced by the Russian woman painter Nathalle Gourtchakoff.