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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. _ 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. — - — --- 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.