The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-08-20

rible explosion in the Pyrotechnlc School at
Toulon. A naval lieutenant was filling
bottles with dynamite, gun cotton and phos-
phorate of calcium, and the story is that a
drop of perspiration from his forehead fall
ing, under certain conditions, on matter
not explosive without contact with water,
produced the catastrophe. At any rate,
three persons were killed on the spot.
It is said that the Colorado Central rail-
road, which is twenty-one miles in length,
is built among the rocks and lodges, and is
known to be the crookedest line ever built.
At but three places is the track straight.
and then only for a distance of 800 feet.
1t is moreover said that the legislature
granted the company charter as joke,
never expecting that it would be built, yet
it has proved profitable investment to the
builders.
General Spinner's father was German
| priest, his mother German nun but some-
how love slipped into the cloister and abbey
and triumphed over nonastic vows. Al
though the civil laws of their native coun-
try sanctioned their marriage. their church
forbade it, SO they emigrated to America,
and settled in Herkimer county, New York,
where the General was born.
The international postal money order
| system between the United States and Can
odo want into oya,.a+ +o,, ~, +ho %;rc& of ~; q
month. More than three hundred post
Offices have been named in this country at
| which this kind Of business can be transact
ed. Orders issued in the United States will
be payable in Canada, in the value of gold
coin of the deposits made in the United
States in paper, and the value in the United
States paper money Of deposits made in
Canada in gold coin or currency of par val
ue, for payment in the United States, will
be determined according to the current rate
| of premium on gold in New York
According to the San Francisco Bulletin,
the Chinese emigration, commencing in
1862 with an influx of over five thousand
Celestials in that year, giving for thirteen
years a total of 118, 8,094, of which less than
five thousand are females. The greater
emigration in any one year was 1888 in
1872. Of these $50 were women. And
this disproportion of the sexes gives key
to the whole subject. The domestic life of
the Orientals has never come here. The
whole movement is little more than mere
labor apprenticeship. every Chinaman
| keeping his purpose of ultimate return to
his native land steadily in mind, and whether
living Or dead, he goes back unless his life
is failure.
1t is now stated that the Eucalyptus, or
fever tree, is quite as valuable in respect to
timber producing qualities as it is in sani-
tary point Of view. In California it has
been found to grow very rapidly and to an
enormous size, and is now being planted
for wood. Trees emily four years and half
from the seed are now twenty-five feet
high and sixteen inches in circumference !;
and single cultivator has raised, during
the past year, from two and half pounds
of seed, no less than $4,000 trees eight
inches in height.
1t has long been one of the staple argu-
ments of the total abstinents that man is
the only animal that makes use of intoxi-
eating drink; but recent research seems
to discredit the proposition. 1t is now
stated that in South Africa, at a certain
season of the year, the elephants resort to
place where the umguan tree grows for
the purpose of eating the fruit, which is
highly intoxicating. The accounts given
Of their drunken antics are not such, how
ever as ought to induce human beings to
follow their example, even to the limited
extent of an annual "bender."
The death of Andrew johnson leaves the
country without a single ex-president liv-
ing This has not happened since the
death of Washington in the administration
of the elder Adams When John Quincy
Adams was inaugurated, fifty years ago, all
the presidents for the preceding seven
terms, twenty EIGHT years, were living,
namely, the elder Adams, Jefferson, Mad
ison and Monroe.
Gen. Geo. E. Pickett, who died at Nor
folk last week, was one of the most gallant
soldiers that Virginia has ever produced
He was graduate Of West Point in the
class of 1846, and Immediately entered ac-
tive servica as a lier1tenant in the Mexican
war. He was afterwards assigned TO duty
on the Pacific coast, but resigned in 1861
to take part in the cause of the southern
confederacy.
Prisoners Captured and killed.