The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-08
FOREIGN ITEMS.

The cultivation of the oinohona, orquiuine
! plant, in Jamaica has proved thoroughly sue
\ cessful. It was introduced in 1856. and at
the close of the following year the number of
| young plants had so increased that it was
. found desirable to convert 500 acres of virgin
forest on the Blue Mountains into a cinchona
plantation. Fifty acres were cleared, and
forty of these at once filed with cinchonas,
! which, in spite of unfavorable circumstances,
have largely multiplied. The plantation is
situated about 5000 feet above the sea level.
is well watered, and possesses a suitable soil,
/ capable even of resisting the pernicious infu-
ence OF q season like that Of last year. which
was one OF the driest on record. Sir James
4 Grant, in his report Just published, regrets
that the demand for young cincbonas for pro-
pagatiou has hitherto been Ear behind the
(%Supply; but when the success Of the expert
ment has become more widely known, no
hopes that mountain %proprietors will find it
to their interest to cultivate largely a plant
which has commercial as well as sanitary
value to recommend it.
DR.. Guy. in his recent treatise Pub
lie Health, attributes much Of the virulence
with which the sweating sickness attacked
ENGLAND IN the sixteenth century to the sur
feiting and g%luttony which then prevailed
among the people. ''Elesh meats highly sea-
5oned with spice were eaten to excess, strong
g@ine was drunk early in the morning. and
M A0Aof NV ShApNhnAASC WIZ 1hoNOiAtAA1s
IThe epidemic, it is well known, differed from
other pestilences in having been wholly deve-
Hoped at home, and not imported from abroad;
and where cases occurred in foreign coun-
tries. they were almost always among Eng
glishmen. or persons addicted to English
habits Of life. If this is true, says the FdH
IHQE Gazette. it is rather curious to notice the
otsl absence of all apprehension of the re-
e~urrence of such a pestilence in our own days.
Our consumption of meat is. at least, four
times as great as it was in the sixteenth GEN.
tury; and we are endeavoring, by stimulating
Importation from distant countries, to increase
is supply. under the belief that a meat diet
viii counteract those numerous maladies
hich arise from deficient nourishment. But,
neither we agree or not in the suspicious
it'll which DR.. Guy regards the "Roast Beef
Old England, we can cordially commend
the attention of every officer of health the
neral conclusions, which he thus expresses:
F"A nation of ~gluttons and drunkards, liv-
2 in filthy, unventilated houses. in squalid,
isome streets, with their persons steaming
hot and uncleanly clothing. are prepared
any conceivable amount of sickness and
p~rtality.' Any exceptional weather or
pidemic constitution of the air may de-
|elop q pestilence which neither indulgence
meat nor abstinence from it will have
ouch power to check.
1.-The Paris GdulOis announces the success
nl completion of one of those undertakings
hitch recall the surprising labors of the
Fehedictines of old. Monseigneur Penny,
iEar Apostolic in the Celestial Empire, has
l4t presented the Emperor with the first
pIume Of a French ana Chinese dictionary.
Ills is q wonderful monument of linguistic
I'LL and OF conquered difficulties. The in
F~Iectuai exertion alone was enough to make
ID stoutest heart quail; but the author had
SO to overcome mechanical difficulties that
arc paaJIu incrparohla Ha haA RI form
Guilds for the 80, 900 characters comprising
he Chinese language, to run the type, and to
the work up with his own hand. And all
is in q little cell at the establishment for
reign missions.
tSardes, the primeval city of Asia Minor,
to be called into life again. Supposed to
I'VE been founded by the Phenicians and
Ihave been alluded to by Homer. it is his
rica1y known as the capital and residence
st of the Lydian kings, later of the Persian
traps. Being burned down successfully by
o Kimmerians, the Greeks. Antiochus the
feat, and half destroyed by an earthquake
der Ijberius, it was always rebuilt again,
til at last, probably since the days of
~nAerlaDe. it ceased to be anything but
vast field of ruins: the remains of a
Patre, a stadium, and a triple wall, with
gers among them, were left as a memory
the royal city, which also boosted of
Wing been one of the first Chris
"a communities. 1t seems that a
lway i'll the course of construction between
lyrna and Kassaba is about to touch this
d Of ruins, and a Prussian savant now on
asual tour in those parts has taken steps
secure a methodical exploration of the
ole, cdelo,n faiSant. Apart from the gain
antiquity in general which a scientific in
litigation of those ancient constructions
st yield, there is no doubt that the Berlin
scum will obtain many a precious relic at
cry reasonable rate. News has also been
eiFed from the same traveller of certain
ciPus antique Greek statues, immured in
Eote or less damaged state in the medieval
ID of Pergamus, which could very easily
Rdpuired. Thus a colossal statue was dis
efed there the other day, in the most per-
preservation, but had, in default of a
tf German man-of-war to take it home, to
kyered up again.