Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-12-06

. A communication, which ought to have a
special interest for Staten Island, New jersey,
and other chill and fever localities, has lately
been addressed to the French Academy of Sci
ences by a Mr.. Gimbert, who has been long en-
gagged in collecting evidence concerning the
eucalyptus giObatUS, tree Of extraordinarily
rapid growth, which attains huge dimensions
and appears to possess an extraordinary power
Of destroying mia>mat influence in fever
stricken dis riots. 1t has the singular property
of absorbing ten times its weight of water from
the soil, and of emitting aDtiseptic camphorous
eiiiUvia. When sown In marshy ground il will
dry it up in "A very short time. The English
were The first to try it at the Cape, aud within
two or three years they completely changed the
climatic condition OF the unhealthy part OF the
colony. A few years later its plantation was
undertaken on a large scale in various parts of
Algeria. AtPardock, twenty miles from lgiers
a farm situated on the banks of the HamyZel
las noted for IT'S extremely pestilential air. In
the Spring of 1861 about 13 900 of the eucalyptus
were planted there. In July of the same year
the time when the fever season used 70 set in
net single case occurred; yet the trees were
not more than nine feet high. Since then com
plete immunity from fever has been maintain
ed. In the neighborhood of Constantine the
farm OF Ben Machydlin was equally in bad re-
pute, 1t was covered with marshes. both in
Winter nd summer. In five years the whole
ground was dried up by Il 900 oil these same
trees, and farmers and children enjoy excellent
health. At the factory of the GAY dc Constan-
tine, IN three years p plantation OF eucalyptus
has trans Ormed twelve acres of marshy soil
into magnificent park, whence fever has
completely disappeared In the Island of Cuba,
this and all other paludal diseases are fast dis
appearing from all the unhealthy districts
where this tree has been introduced. A station
house at one Of the ends of a railway vaduct in
the Department the Var was SO residential
that the officials could not be kept there longer
II an wear. Forty of these trees were planted :,
and il is now as healthy any other place on
the line. We have no Information as to wheth-
er this benefcent tree will grow In other than
hot climates We hope that experiments will
be made to determine this point.
THE SCHooL-MAsTRR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
may be a little behindhand In this country. but
our boys are ingenious. In an examination in
the West, last week, q class of forty lads, hay-
ing been set to write out the second command
ment contrived to spell the word "jealous, in
twenty-eight different ways--twenty-se of
which. need not tell you, were unconvention-
al. The same bright youths metamorpho
PontiOus PLATE into a"punchit split" Hbunch
Of spled" (this was really magnificent, and
punches pilot" while more advanced pupil
described the estates of the realm rs those which
pertained to the crown. These young GENTLE
men, it must be owned, did not belong to what
we delight to call "the educated classes" but
the following was lately elected from an under
graduate at one Of our universities, who had
been required to give his views upon the career
Of Oliver Cromweil "He was bold, bad man,
but repented on his death bed, when he ex-
claimed, IF 1 had served my God rs have
served my king. he would not have deserted me
in my old age.'" l am inclined to think that
this is the happiest confusion of ideas that edu-
cation has yet effected.-Load0n Core spondent
If Bozor.