The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-01-23
The Anti-FeVcr Tree.
A PREVENTIVE OF MALARIA.

The following reprint from the Lon
don Telegraph contains q still more ex-
tended account of the Eucalyptus tree,
and the experiments which have been
made in different parts of the world with
reference to it's agency as a preventive
of malarious diseases. We commend 1t
to the careful perrlsal of all who may be
in a position to take active interest in
the subject:
At the last meeting of the French
| Academy of Science a very interesting
paper was read by NJ. Gimbert. Its sub
iect was the alleged febrifugal proper
ties of the Australian"tree, eucalyptus
| globulus, which is said to have the Gu
| rious and valuable power of destroying
| the malaTiOus elementin any atmosphere
where it grows. The species in question
is n of that family indigenous to New
South Wales, which the cOlonists call
gum trees. They shoot up very quickly
| and to an enormous height, some of
| them reaching one hundred and fifty
feet, with q girth of from twenty-five
to forty. The sparse and strangely
twisted foliage grows in q thin crown at
the top of the pillar-like stem, but the
characteristic of the whole genius is the
rapid habit of the increase, seen equally
in the iron bark, the blue gum, and this
particular specimen, the eucalyptus glO-
buluS. The tree in question absorbS an
immense deal of water from the earth,
and at the same time emits an aromatic
odOr, which has, perhaps, something to
do with the beneficial influence attrib-
| uted to it. Where it is thickly planted
in marshy tracts the subsOil is said to be
drained in a little while as though by
extensive piping. Miasma ceases, We
49,, 4o1I y-Hnnoror +l,D a,,oo1r,>+,,r Hn1rr
ishes. 1t has been tried for this purpose
at the Cape, and within two or three
years has completely changed the eli
matte condition of the unhealthy parts
of that colony. Somewhatlaterits plan
tatiOn was undertaken on a large scale
in various parts of Algeria. At a farm
twenty miles from Algiers, situated on
the banks of a river, and noted for it's
extremely pestilential air, about 10000
! eucalypti were planted. In the same
year, at the same time when the fever
season used to set in, not a single case
occurred, yet the trees were not more
than nine feet high. Since then com
plete immunity from fever has hcen
maintained. In the neighborhOOd of
Constantine, it is also stated, wasanOther
noted fever spot, covered with marsh
water both in winter and summer; in
five years the whole ground was dried
up by $4,000 of these trees, and farmers
and children enjoy excellent health.
Throughout Cuba marsh diseases are
fast disappearing from all 1.-The unhealthy
districts where this tree has been intro
duced. A station house, again, at one
end of q yiaduct in the Department of
the Var, was so presidential that the Of
ficials could not be kept there longer
| Al. - -yoor LNDu&rr oF 4Ia 4rOo, -n.
planted, and it is now as healthy as any
of the facts brought forward by NJ. Gin
would be most desirable to try whether
the eucalyptus would thrive on the west
coast of Africa, and other malarious dis
tricts of the warmer ATTITUDES. It is af-
tirmed that the %suntloWer possesses a
similar capacity to dry up the subsoil
and neutralize miasma. Nor should
botanists neglect these suggestions.
There are more wonders yet i'll the veg
etable world than are dreamed of in their
philosophy. How passing strange, fol-
kexample, is that property Ofthe paWpaw
tree to turn meat tender? A joint of
mutton, stepped in a solution of its juice,
becomes instantly 5ucculent, and the
flesh of animals fed upon it's leaves
"melts in the mouth" upon cooking.
How RICH MEN BEGAN LIFE.-Mar-
shall O. Roberts is the pOssessor of 49,
100000 or $5,000,0 00, and yet until he was
twenty-five he did not have 800 he
could call his own.
George Law at fOrty-five was a COM
mon day labOrer on the docks and at
present counts his fortune at something
like $10,000,000,
Alex. T. Stewart first bought q few
laces at auction, and opened his way to
success in a little dingy shop on Broad
way, the site of his present wholesale
establishment.
Daniel Drew, in early life, was a cattle
driver at the muniticent rate of IS cents
a day, and he has driven himself into
an estate valued at from $25, 900, 600 to
$4,000, 900.
Robert L. and Alexander Stuart, the
noted sugar ~retiners, in their boyhood.
sold molasses candy which their widow,
ed mother made, at a cent Il stick, and
to-day they are probably worth from
IS, 900, 900 to $4,000, 600 each.
Horace B. Clatlin, the eminent dry
goods merchant, worth, it is estimated
from $12,000,000 to S15,000,000, com
menced the world with nothing but en-
ergy, determination and hope, and sec
how he has invested them!
Cornelius Vanderbilt began life will
an old pirOgue, running between Staten
Island and New York and carrying gar.
den stutfB to market. With $4,000 OF
$4,000 raised from that source, he enter.
ed upon steadily increasing enterprises
until he has accumulated $4,000, 900.
NoAH's PRAYER IN THE ARK.-In thu
Arabic and Syriac there is d floating
tradition of the form of prayer believed
to have been used by Noah in the ark
The following is a translation of thu
prayer: 80 Lord, excellent art thou il
the earth, and there is nothing great il
comparison of thee. Look upon us will
the eye of mercy and compassion, delive
us from the deluge of waters, and Sc
our feet in q large room. BY the sor
rows OF Adam, thy irst-made man, b,
the blood OF Abel, thy holy one, by thl
righteousness of Seth, in whom thou ar
well pleased, number us not among thos,
who have t~ransgressed thy statutes, bu
take us into thy merciful care for tho
art our deliverer, and thine is the prais,
for all the works Of thy hands for ever
more" And the son of Noah said
"Amen, Lord" ID
MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF EGGs.-Tht
white of an egg has proved of late tl'
most ~efieacious remedy for burns. Sew
an or eight successful applications o
this substance soothes pain and effect
uaily excludes the burned parts from
the air. This simple remedy seems pref
cradle to colodiQn or even cotton.
Extraordinary stories are told of tn,
healing properties of a new oil which il
easily mnde from the Yolk of hens eggs