Morning journal and courier., 1892-01-30

ceeding in finding them, although he spent his whole fortune and kept up the search without ceasing until his health gave out few weeks ago. Anybody who can keep spirit of revenge alive and active for twentyyears has greatly misunderstood things.
 Some ships last long. A recent report of casualties to shipping shows some re- markable facts in regard to the great age of some craft still in active service. Thirty-nine sailing vessels mentioned in the report are between fifty and sixty years old, eighteen between sixty and seventy years, thirty between seventy and hundred, while six have been afloat dur ing century. This is, of course, only a part of the list of ancient craft still in service, and the vessels referred to are ses-going craft, and not barges or river boats. It is, however, probable that there is exceedingly little of the original struct- ure left in the old ships. Constant repair ing and reftting has almost rebuilt them; but while one plank of the original re- mains, the vessel retains it's identity.
 We are accustomed to think of Pennsyl- vania when coal mining is spoken of, but last year coal was mined in fifty-seven counties in Illinois. The number of mines and openings was 91S. e. coal of all grades 15,660, ,698 tons were taken out. Nearly 33,0O0 men are employed in the work. The average value of lump coal at the mines' mouth was s1 ,00S4, and the average price per ton paid for hand min ing was $0.71527. Sixty men were killed in the mines, thirty-seven of whom were married. 112 children were made father less. 367 men were injured. For each life lost 261 ,011 tons of coal were mined. The output for the year was 321 ,S60 tons of lump coal greater than that of any year preceding. There were 241 mining machines in use in the State, a falling off from the year before of twenty-five. Less than oDe-ffth of the total product was mined by mechanical process. In the work of blasting 26, 146 kegs of powder was used.
 Pretty soon lover can say to his girl with some fitness, "Oh, fly with me-" Chicago capitalists are said to have forfned company with $50, 100000 capital to ventor of the ship that bears his name, has charge of the business. At their works at Mount Carmel they expect to build ship that will carry fifty passengers across the Atlantic at the rate of 200 miles an hour Mir. Pennington says: "A man can go to sleep in New York and wake up in Lon don. There is hardly any limit to the uses to which it can be put. A farmer living 100 miles from city could load up lot of garden truck, carry it to market and fly home, all in two hours time. Mails could be carried from New York to Chicago in five hours. Freight and all kinds of articles could be let down into buildings by means of chutes connecting with the roofs. Carrying the mails will be one of the prime uses of the airship." The ship will be made of alumi- mum and will be completed in about year.
 The management of the London Times has utilized the telephone in unique way. Telephone wires have been laid in the un derground railroad tunnel between the composing room in Printing House square and the parliamentary reporters gallery in the house of commons. A copy reader placed at the telephone reads the steno- graphic ''turns" from the notebook as fast as it is possible for the compostors to take them on their type-setting machines in the Times building a mile and half away. At first the reporters did not take kindly to the innovation, but when they found that they could dictate their notes direct to the composing room without the trouble of transcribing them they began to look at the matter in an entirely different light. Proofs, of course, are sent to them for cor
 rection. Each machine can produce from five to six columns of solid minion night. Errors will sometime creep in, but there is no doubt that the practice will become a permanent one. Its great advantage be- comes apparent when the fact is consid cred that the Times is able, by adopting it, to print in time for the 5 a. m. newspaper trains going to all points of the United Kingdom the whole of the debates, which are often continued until 3 a. m.