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KNOXVILLE JOURNAL
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
Holland reclaims an average of eighl
seres per day from the sea and |the salt
water is no sooner crowded out than cab¬
bage is crowded in.
At Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.
ground has been broken for the first
gymnasium and mechanical laboratory
for colored people the world has ever
seen.
The merits of newspaper advertising
were well estimated by a prominent soup
man of Philadelphia when he said that
he confined his advertising to newspa¬
pers “Because the man who does not
read the papers does not use soap.
It is reported from Cape May that ii
the Government cannot be induced to
build the proposed channel from Cape
May to Atlantic City ail effort will be
made to raise the money by popular sub¬
scriptions at the two resorts during the
summer.
The people of the Pacific Coast are
taking considerable interest in the Mel¬
bourne Exposition, which will be opened
in August, though why it should be held
in winter is not clear. It is expected
that there will be a very creditable ex¬
hibit of California products at the Ex¬
position,
If the Emperor Frederick should get
well, the Sultan of Turkey will take no
small part of the credit to himself, for
he has sent the Emperor a collar consist'
ing of nine hazel nuts with inscriptions
from the Koran, over which the der¬
vishes and sheiks of the palace had
prayed, and which, as the Sultan assured
the German ruler, would cure him with
out doubt.
A prison revolt, which was not quelled
without much bloodshed, took place re¬
cently at Damanhour, Egypt, about
twelve miles from Alexandria. Two
prisoners in the jail who w T ere under
sentence of death, aided by eighteen
other convicts., managed to make their
escape from the prison. The police at
once started in pursuit, but before they
could come up with them the prisoners
took refuge in a mosque. Here a des
]>erate fight took place, iu which fifteen
of the prisoners were killed and two
were wounded, while the police had four
killed.
The Taos Valley of Colorado and New
Mexico is about to have a boom. A
company will soon irrigate the eutire
valley, fcays a recent visitor: “The
beauties of the valleys of Southern Cali¬
fornia are much extolled by tourists as
well as by the inhabitants. Taos, how¬
ever, discounts anything in the Golden
State. The climate is much more de¬
lightful, and the enemies to vegetation
much fewer. None of the destroyers of
fruit which arg common to California are
found in the Taos region, and I can as¬
sure you that watermelmons picked there
two years ago are good and fresh, and
fit for the table at the present time.”
A correspondent of the Philadelclhia
Ledger suggests that the court of the
new City Hall in that city should be
embellished -with statues of eminent
Philadelphians, after the manner of the
Ufiizi at Florence, lie suggests, as ap¬
propriate subjects, William Penn, Ben-'
jamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush, Ben¬
jamin West, Bishop White, Stephen
Girard, John Fitch, Robert Fulton,
Robert Morris, Lindiey Murray, Dr.
Kane, Charles Broekden Brown, Thomas
Buchanan Read, Bayard Taylor, Henry
C. Carey, Dr. Gallaudot, Horace Binney,
Vice-President Dallas, Dr. Hayes, John
Welsh, and others.
Europe now has twenty-two cremato¬
ries, ten of them added within the past
year, while no less than 600 bodies have
been burned in Germany and 800 in
Italy. The United States have seven
crematories, with six building. Thus it
seems, infers the New York Observer,
that prejudice against cremation is fast
abating.
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Boulanger, the fleeting idol of the
volatile French, is described by the
Boston Transcript as “an off-handed,
rather open-hearted fellow, who likes to
please, delights in rendering services to
no matter whom, is charmingly gallant
to women of all ages and ranks, has an
elegant figure and a handsome face, a
winning smile, sits on horseback like a
centaur, and took when he was in the
army as much enjoyment out of his fine
belongings as a child does out of its
Sunday clothes. He was really pictur¬
esque on his black prancing horse, sur¬
rounded by his staff. The rank and file
adored him; for why? he gave them
clean beds, lavatories, mess tables and
plates, tumblers, knives and forks. For
men who had to spend three years at
least in the army this was a good deal.
Before the time'of Le Beau General they
fed almost like hogs, each eating out of
a tin can, with his fingers or penknife as
best he could. The beauty of the thing
was that this change cost the taxpayers
nothing, it being clipped oil contractors
and their patrons. Wilson didn’t like it;
but Boulanger didn’t care. Boulonger
didn’t care either • whether influential
politicians took, when he was war minis¬
ter, in bad part his refusal to tame col¬
liers on strike by sending a military
force to their black country to drago: u
them. When the colliers were starving,
Boulanger telegraphed to the soldiers to
share their victuals with them. I don’t
think he did this to win popularity, but
merely from a kind impulse.”
The Biggest Geyser at Work.
The Excelsior geyser in the Yellow¬
stone Park is in operation. This geyser
is in the great middle geyser basin, close
to the Fire Hole river. It is in the form
of an immense pit 820 feet in length and
200 feet wide, and the aperture through
which it discharges its volume of w'ater
is nearly 200 feet in diameter. Its gene¬
ral appearance is that of a huge boiling
spring, and for mauy years its true
character was not suspected. when Its first
eruption occurred in 1880, it
revealed itself as a stupendous geyser.
The power of its eruptions was almost
incredible, sending an immense column
of water to heights of with from it 100 rocks to and 800
feet, and hurling pounds
bowlders of from one to 100 in
weight. Its present eruption is said to
be a repetition of that of 1880. It is
throwing its volume of water 800 feet
into the air, and Fire Hole river is re¬
ported to have risen two feet from its
rushing floods. This is now conceded tc
be the most powerful geyser in existence.
— Chicago Tribune.
Lameness in Horses.
Horses often suffer from lameness
through some foreign substance imbedding working
its way into the frog and
itself there, causing inflammatory ulcera¬
tion and sometimes lock-iaw. Some
twenty years ago or more, when Captain
Moore’s horse Privateer was a two-year
old, his owner had just given him a
splendid gallop over the Crab Orchard
(Ky.) track when he suddenly went lame
and for weeks all treatment failed to cure
him. Finally, Captain Moore, at the
suggestion of a friend, took Privateer to
a veterinarian, who was told to cut into
the frog of the ailing foot. The veterin¬
arian examined the foot and demurred,
saying there was nothing there. where “Nevei I tell
you mind, but cut away emphatic
you,” said Moore, in the style
for which hewas noted. The
.cut in and a stream of “pu3” flowed
forth, and on further examination a
piece of walnut hull was found imbedded
in the frog, which was the cause of the
whole trouble. Privateer mended rapidly
afterward, and his career is a matter oi
turf history.— St. Louis Sayings.
English chemists have discovered a
fluid that will dissolve metal of any sort,
even sold
HISTORIC MISERS.
STARVING RATHER THAN PART
WITH THEIR MONEY.
Elwes, the Millionaire, Whose Moth¬
er Starved to Heath—-A Mi¬
ser Who Was Also n<
Philanthropist.
Perhaps the most famous m’ser that
ever lived was John Elwes, an English
man, who died from neglect because he
refused to incur the expense of physi
cians and nurses, though worth not less
than $4,000,000. In the case of John
Elwes, his sordid character was not the
result of ignorance, for he was a gradu
ate of a Swiss university, and later in
- life was a member of Parliament. His
greed of gold was an hereditary sin. He
was the son of a London brewer, who
died when the boy was only four years
old. His mother survb ed, but to such
an exteut did her passion for money gain
ahold upon her that, though she had
$100,000 in her own right, she actually
starved herself to death. An uncle, Sir
Harvey Elwes, was also a miser, and the
example evercised of these two blood relatives
such an influence upon John
Elwes, that he became the most famous
miser of three centuries. After his re
turn moved to in England fashionable from Geneva, Elwes
Loudon society,
where his prospective wealth entitled
him to recognition.
■When he visited his uncle in Suffolk,
where the latter lived in the most abject
penury, his hopeful nephew would play
a double part. He would wear his
fashionable garments as far as a little
inn in Chelmsford, where he exchanged
them for a patched pair of trousers, a
worn-out coat, darned stockings, and
clodchopper shoes with iron buckles,
In this attire he would call upon his
uncle. The latter would not permit a
fire on cold March days on the score of
its being extravagant, and the two
would sit with a crust of bread and one
glass of wine between them until it was
too dark to see each other’s faces, and
then they would retire to save the ex
pense of the candles. Wh<?n this uncle
died he left his nephew a fortune of
$ 1 , 000 , 000 .
As he grew older, John Elwes de
his veloped the terrible avarice that marked
life his by a passion for cards. He would
sit in thread-bare clothes with the
Dukeof Northumberland and play with
feverish eye and trembling hand with
thousands at stake, and then, after hav
ing lost or won, as the case may be, he
would walk to his miserable lodgings,
th»ee miles distant, in a pelting rain,
rather than pay a cab.
Elwes owned a magnificent country
seat in Berkshire. When he would
leave London to visit it he would put
three hard-boiled eggs and some crusts of
bread in his pockets, then, mounting a
horse, would ride over fields and through
lanes, going miles out of his way to
avoid roads where he would have to pay
a few pennies toll. A more than faith
ful biographer says of him:
“lie would eat his provisions in the
last stage of putrefaction rather than
have a fresh joint from the butcher, and
at one time he wore a wig about a fort
night which he picked out of a rut in a
lane, and which had apparently been
thrown away by a beggar.”
At his country seat he allowed of no
repair save a little brown paper or a bit
of broken glass. During the harvest he
would amuse himself with going into the
fields to glean the corn on the grounds of
his own tenants; and they used to leave
a little more than common to please the
old gentleman, who the was as eager after it
as any pauper in parish. To save
bed coverings, before his death, he
would go to sleep completely dressed
with boots and hat on. He died miser¬
ably, his mined weakened by worry and
privation. which The value of his fortune,
went to two sous, was not less
than $'>,000,000.
Another celebrated miser was Ephraim
Lapes Pereira, the Baron d’Aguilar, Theresa formerly
cashier to Empress Maria of
Austria. Strange to say, the early years
of his life at the Austrian court were
England, years of splendor. married Then wealthy he moved lady, to
a and
Bottled down. He lived in sumptuous
style; servants. kept He several carriages married and twice, twenty and,
was
after his second marriage he left his fam¬
ily and friends and withdrew himself
from the fashionable world. He turned
farmer. At this time hewas worth $1,
000,000. After a year in the country his
place began to be known as and “Starvation
Farmyard.” His cattle poultry
were amass of skin and bones, and peas¬
ants he began to hoot at the Baron when¬
ever ofhis appeared for his mean treatment
animals. He always insisted on
being fed, present when the stock was being
so that he plight see that there was
nothing stolen or wasted. He went
about his farm clad in mean and dirty
clothes, and refused to spend money' to
buy new ones. After a life of selfishness
and meanness he died in March, 1802,
leaving property estimated at $1,100,
000. His diamonds alone were worth
$150,000, while his solid silver plate
weighed over 700 pounds,
That a man who expended during his
life and bequeathed to public institu
tions on his death over $1,000,000, should
be called a miser, seems a paradox, and
vet such was Thomas Guv, the founder
of the famous Guy’s Hospital, London,
and a man whose memory will be cher
ished for hundreds of years to come,
Thomas Guy, was the son of a coai
dealer in Ilorselvdowu. lie began life
with a capital of £100 as a bookseller,
By fortunate investments in the year
1720 he amassed an immense fortune,
mainly through what was known as
South Sea stock. His whole life was
marked by a penurionsness that strangely
comported with his lavish public gifts.
He old invariably ate his meals alone, using
an newspaper as a table cloth. On
wdnter nights ho would burn the half of
one candle and shiver over a few sticks
of wood in a brick stove. It was of Guy
that the famous story is told how
Hopkins called upon him to get a lesson
0 n the art of saving. It was night, and
Guv was seated at a plain deal table with
a half-penny candle,
“Is that nil you came about?” said Guy,
after his visitor was seated, “why, then
we can talk the matter over in the dark,”
and he deliberately extinguished the fee
ble flame.
AVitli all his record of personal mean
ness and penurious habits, the hospital
that bears his name will ever perpetuate
his memory. He spent almost $100,000
in building it, and then left it endowed
with nearly $1,100,000 at his death. He
left $2000 to the governors of Christ’s
Hospital perpetually to care for four poor
children of London, and $5000 for re
leasing four prisoners in the city and the
counties of Middlesex and Surrey.—
Pittsburq Dispatch.
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An Improvement in Dentistry,
A well known Pittsburg dentist has
lately received a patent upon an electrical
appliance that has certainly solved one
of the many difiiculties attending the
proper Heretofore haudling of gold the human teeth,
a whole tooth has been
made by the old-fashioned swedging pro
cess, at once clumsy and hardly effect
ive. The gold cones are technically
called galvano-plastic tooth crowns, and
the process of making them is very
simple. A soft metallic model of the
tooth is made, this being done perfectly
by first taking an imp: ession of the tooth,
The metallic model is then placed in a
dynamo electric bath, and a deposit of
nure model. gold When is thus this formed gold his all attained over the
a.
suitable thickness the soft metal is easily
melted out without injuring the cone,
leaving a This perfect, smooth gold * tooth
crown. process is far easier than
the old way, and has received marked at
tention from the scientific dental organs
in the East ,—PMsbvry Dispatch.
An Interesting Spider.
The habits of a running spider of
Southern Europe, are curious. It makes
a vertical round hole in the ground
about ten inches deep, and this, with a
small earth-wall sometimes made round
the mouth, is lined with web. A little
way down is a small lateral hole into
which the spider shrinks when an animal
falls into the tube; when the animal has
reached the bottom, the spider pounces
on it. One can readily tell that a tube
is tenanted by the bright phosphorescent
eyes of the spider turned himself upward. its In
fighting the legs,striking spider erects with the others. on
last pair bite of fatal it
The is not toman, but causes
large swellings. The children in Bucha¬
rest angle for these spiders by means of
an egg-like ball of kneaded yellow wax
tied to a thread. This is lowered with
jerks into the hole, and the spider
fastens on it, and can be pulled out;
whereupon another thread is passed is
round one of the legs, and the animal
played with.
There are seven stars in the dipper,
seven days iu the week, seven wonders
of the world, seven ages of man, and, ac¬
cording to M. Scribe, a French play¬
wright, there are seven dramatic situa¬
tions of which all others are mere varia¬
tions.
