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Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 323, 21 January 1874, Page 3

More Proverbial Philosophy. — "Who goes a borrowing goes a sorrowin'." More often it is "the other way up." Who goes a lending to often goes a sorrowin', while who goes 'a borrowin' not unfrequently goes on his way rejoicing at his dexterity. " Judy."

The Ciimatic Effects of the Blue Gum. — M. Ounbcrt, who has watched the result of planting the Eucalyptus Globulus, or common blue gutn, in Algeria, writes as follows : — " Within two or three years they completely changed the climatic condition of the unhealthy parts of the colony. A few years later its plantation was undertaken on a large scale in different parts- of Algeria. At Pondook, twenty miles from Algiers, a farm situated on the banks of the Hamiz, was noted for its extremely ijestelential air. In the spring of. 1867 about ia,ooo Eucalypti were planted there. In, July .of the same year, the time when the fever season used to set in, not & single case occurred : yet the trees were not more than nine feet; high. Since then complete immunity from lover has been maintained. In the neighborhood of Oonstantina the farm of Ben Machydlin was equally in bad repute ; it was covered with marshes'both in winter and summer.. In five years the wholeground was dried up by 14,000 of these trees, and farmers and children enjoy excellent health. At the factory of* the Gue de Conslantine, in three years a plantation of Eucalyptus has transformed twelve acres of marshy soil into a. magnificent park, whence fever has completely disappeared. In the island of Cuba, this and all other paludean diseases are fast disappearing from all the unhealthy districts where this tree has been introduced. A station-house at one of tho ends of a railway viaduct in the department of Var was so pestilential that the officiate could not be kept there longer than a year ; forty of these three were planted, and it is now as healthy as any other place on the line."

A LOBSTER FARM. — A lobster farm has ! been established within the last year on the j coast of Massachusetts. A space of thirty acres of flats in ai 1 arm of the sea was enclosedby a dyke, with an arched wap in the centre to permit the ebb and flow of the sea, the tide rising three feet inside and eight feet outside. During July and August of 1372, 40,000 lobsters of all ages, Bizes, and conditions, were let looae in the pond. Food, consisting of refuse from the S3h market, was plentifully supplied to them, anJ. a gate was put up to pi'eveut their, escape to the sea. Last winter holes ■were cut in tho ice, and traps were put down* Good hard shell lobsters were caught, thereby proving that the water was deep enough and pui c enough to keep the fish a'ive, and that the lobsters were healthy, having taken on their hard shells, and having recovered, their lost claws. This spring about 15.000 tnalo lobsters were- taken out and sold, the hen lobsters having been thrown back for breeding purposes. At tha present time the spawn is in its last stage, the. egg showing the young fry, and in a few weeks some millions of young lobsters will swarm in the pond. Tlie only obstacle-to success is the danger arising from other fish consuming the young lobsters, but it is believed that the gravelly bottom will furnish hiding places. — " M, L. Express."