Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-04-15
A ADisease-DestrOying Tree.

lncollecting evidence concerning the Aus
tralian tree Eucalyptus globulns. the
growth of which is surprisingly rapid. at
tanning besides gigantic dimensions. has
addressed an interesting communication to
the Academy of Sciences. This plant, it
now appears. pOsSt sses an extraordinary
power of destroying miasmatic influence
in feverstricken districts. 1t has the sin
rular property of absorbing ten times its
weight of water from the soil and of
hitting antiseptic camphorOus etfluvit.
When sown in marshy ground, it will dry
it up in very short time The English
we're the first to try it at the Cape, and
within two or three years they completely
hanged the climatic condition of the un-
healthy parts of the colony. A few years
ater its plantation WAS undertaken on
large scale in various parts of Algeria.
At Pardock, twenty miles from Algiers,
u farm, situated on the banks of the
,lamyze, was noted for its extremely pes
tilcntial air In the spring of 1867. about
plante there In July of the same year
the time when the lever set in-not a
! single case occurred yet the trees We're not
more than nine feet high Since then,
complete immunity from fever has been
maintained. In the neigllhorhood of Con
tantinp, the farm of Ben Machy,ilin was
! equally in bad rcpu,e. 1t was covered
with marshes, both in winter and sum-
mrr. In five years the whole ground was
| iried up by fourteen thousand of these
! trees, and farmers and children enjoy ex-
! rellent health. At the factory of the Cue
dc Constantine, in three years. Il plant;t-
ion of eucalyptu, has transformed twelve
! tcres of marshy soil into a magnificent
oark, whence fever has completely disap-
p.ared. In the island Of Cuba, this and
all other paludal diseases are fast di>ap-
pearing from all the unhealthy districts
where this tree has been introduced. \
station-house at one end of the ends of
| railway viaduct. in the Department of the
Var, was 50 pestilential that the officials
could not be kept there longer than
year. Forty of these trees We're planted,
and it is now as healthy as any other place
on the line. We have no information as
to whether this benefcent tree will grow
in other but hot climates. We hope that
experiments viii be made to determine
his point 1t would be a good thing to
Introduce it on the West Coast of Africa
| H0mcWGrd Null.
BUFFERS JOKES IN New ORLEANS
Col. c. c. Fulton, writing from New
Orleans to the Baltimore Americdn, says:
General Butler has left engraven in en-
| during granite several pungent jokes he
perpetrated whilst in command of this
| city. One Of these is on the base of the
eqUestr an bronze statue of General Jack
-On. One morning, when the curses of
The people were loudest and deepest, Il
stone cutter, guarded by file of soldiers,
WAS observed in Jackson square commence
nc work with his chisel. No one knew
| in what way he would desecrate the mon
ument of the hero of New Orleans, and
each letter was watched as it appeared on
the base until that declaration which made
him famous. The Union must and shall
be preserved was spelled out by the in
dignant people.
a short time aftcrward, the same work
man, similarly guarded, appro Iched the
bronze monument to Henry Clay, on Canal
street, and soon was cut deep and distinct
IN the granite block, Immediately under
the foot of the statue, the following
extract from one of the greatest spe che
of the distinguished Kentucky sttte,man:
= If l could he instrumental in eradicating
this deep stain-sluvery the charac-
ter of our country, l would not eXchangr
the proud satisfaction which should en-
Joy for all the triumphs ever achieved by
he most successful conqueror." Little
lid those who erected those monuments
ever expect to see such inscriptions upon
them. but although they gnl>hed their
teeth ut the time. they now regard the in
@crptions as not altogether out of place
in view Of the changes that have been
wrought by fratefnal war The people
have got used to them, and now laugh at
these grim jokes of the erratic Butler.
New HorsEs.-The coincidence of a
mans moving into a new house and dying
soon after has frequently been subject OF
remark, and there is an avoidable cause
the house is moved into before the walls
and plaster and the wood are sufficiently
dried. Sometimes the cause of death is
he poisonous character of the water CON
veyed through new lead pipes. No water
for drinking or cooking purpo eS should
be used in a building supplied with new
lead pipes in whole or in part, for at lcas
one month after the water has been used
daily; this gives time for Il protec ing
coating t. form on tn. inner surface 0. til
, pipes. wien their chemical change from
/ contnct wi h the water gen. rally ceases.
t But the damp mater ais of the house
; hlve the most decided effect, pecia ly on
l persons over fifty years old or of frail c n
5 -titutiOns; whereas if the person were in
| the full vigor of life and health, not even
, an Inconvenience would be exper encrd
In building new house. or on going t.
1 live in another locality where the waltI
t supply is not far from the house, it should
Y be ascertained with the utmost certainty
that the spring OF we'll is higher that the
: privies or barnvar,s. Insidious and fatt
q forms of decline and typhoid very often
l. result from persons drinking water whicl
: is drained from the localities named.
i. The safest plan. and the only safe plaI
+ for furnishing dwellings with the mos
0 healthful and unobectionabe water. is t.
), have II water-tight cistern. and let th'
+ water from the roof of the house OF barn
T. or other outhouses, he conveyed into i
Il through a box of sand several yards long
n this box to rest on a board, or cementeC
Il bottom and sides, so that no outside waite
!. could get into it.-Hai's Journal 0
d Health.
BOTH SIDES OF THE SUBJECT.-Trainin;
-, girls for household duties is just as neces
= Sarv as teaching boys that money was no
,. made to sauander in smoking and in drink
= ing. If wife knows how to kee
- house" if she understands how to set
+ table, if she has learned how things ough
). to be, how beds should be made. how car
= pets should be swept. how furniture shoul
: be repaired turned. altered and renovated
= if she knows how purchases can be mad
!, to the best advantage, and understands tn
= laying in of provisions, and longest, if sh
II appreciates the Importance of system. OF
Iar tidinesS and quiet management q