The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1873-02-22

1t may be consoliug " those of rs who
fear that the precious metals will one day
be exhausted from our mines, to hrd the
ory that gold, silver, copper, iron. ETC.,
actually reaccumulste 10 certain localities
under the potent influence of Law not yet
discovered. Such q theory has been sug
gested by an English writer named Jacobs,
who throws out many useful observations
tending 10 establish it. The loss of coined
metals by mere friction alone amounts to u
great sum. An estimate of the part thus
lost BY abrasion gives y startling aggregate.
What becomes of itl What becomes of the
pins This last inquiry becomes really in
teresting when il is recolected that In one
New England town fourteen tons of brass
wire 10 manufactured into pins daily. '
1t cannot seem improbable that the metal
when reduced to impercepsiblc atoms, .s
they arc by use are. collected again in con.
formi.y with some yet unknown law, and
recor solidated. What IN enormous quan.
tity Vt iron decomposcs and disappears an.
nuslly; where does II 20? 1t 10 disente.
grated by air and wafer and reduced by
abrasion to impalpable dust, and the quan.
tity thus lost 10 80 great ~ to defy all calcu.
latiOn.
That the metals should he subject to laws
like oil Olacr elements seem reasonable; ~
they wear out and disappear they cannot be
lost. When, therefore, the writer above
alluded to suggests that they arc recon due
ted to regions which have property of recon.
centrating floating atoms. thence to be dc.
posted and to be dug on, for the use Of man.
the theory seems no way absurd or start.
ling. Untold thousands of tons of the metals
have disappeared during tho last three thou.
sand years, which may now be regathered
in our own mines or in those of Africa.
And oil ths iron anda large rAra nf tho oihss
metals now in use will hy of In dir, to be
deposited somewhere and quarried again,
perhaps, At some definitely distant period
in mans future history. Such IS the idea
OF Mr.. Jacobs book and the idea Is worth
. thought ~ we move on.-DuNetjn
Burial Places sf IL Dsaapaxtss
The ashes of tho Bonapartes have undcr>
gone ~ many vicissitudes as its members
have experienced in life
Their graves are severed far and wide
BY mountain, stream. and sea. '+'
Tho dust of the first Napoleon rests in the
lnvali1sS Josephine is buried as Malmaison;
the King of Rome lies in tho vaults Of
schonbrunu; Joseph. Lucicn. Charles, and
Jerome the tour brothers of the first Run.
peror, lie IN different parts of Europe; M.
poleon Charles, the eldest son of Hortsnsl
and Louis aud the brother of the late En-.
peror, ID buried st St. Leu, and there, to-
ID buried Charles Marie Napoleon, of Cors,.
ca, the father Of the whole family. In St
Leu, too, is buried Napoleon Louis, thu
elder brother of the late Emperor, who died
st Forli in 1881. and there finally was in
TERED. Louis himself, with his father AMI
bis children. The late Emperor, it seems
had adopted st. Leu ~ the family resting
place, and altered the name of the village Il
Napoleon st. Lcu," rebuilt and enlarged
the village church, and constructed sspscia
vault IN the chaucel, into which were 70
moved the remains Of the. four members oi
his family buried there, The pillars, roofs
and walls of the church arc studded thicklJ
with imperial bees, In the recess behind
the altar 10 = monument of white marble
surmouuted by painting Of st. Nopoleor
and crowned by full sized statue OF Louis
and below, in inches, ars the busts Of tn
other three occupants Of the vault.
A SIX. HUNDRED. Pound SHor RKsIsrED