The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-08-12

ovens are being built in the Connells-
 vile region, Pennsylvania, giving II
 total capacity of at least FLOOD ovens.
 The pig iron and steel producers are
 making use of every available oven to
 keep their furnaces going.
 Even the tramp has his good quail
 ties. Chief of Police Johnston of James,
 town said the other day that he could
 think of no case where tramp had
 been troublesome prsoner-that they
 are usually too indolent to care about
 making a disturbance The real danger
 from them, he said, lies in their taking
 possession of barns and unoccupled
 houses in the country where, by the
 careless use of their pipes, which they
 keep working in some wonderful man.
 ner," they sometimes contrive to start
 fire which destroys the building.
 There are some deep wells. In Eu-
 rope, one at Passy France, depth, 2,oOO
 feet: at La Chapelle, Paris, depth, g.
 $50 feet; at Grenelle, Paris, depth, 1,79S
 feet; at Neusalwerk. near Minden,
 depth, 2,2SS feet; at Kiseengen, Ba-, varia, depth, 1,7S7 feet; at Sperenberg,
 near Berlin, depth, 4,190 feet, which is said to be the deepest in the world; at
 Pesth, Hungary, depth, 3,1s2 feet. In the United States there are wells locat- ed at St. Louis, depth, 3,S4S feet: at Louisville depth, 2,0S6 feet; at Colunr- bus, Ohio depth, 2,775 1-2 feet, and at Charleston, South Carolina, depth, l,250 feet.
 Third Assistant Postmaster General Madden has received many complaints from Cuba that our stamps change and become faded in color under the blaz- ing Cuban sun. General Madden thinks the heat has more to do with it than the sunlight, and says he shall submit the faded specimens sent him to the bureau of engraving and printing, ask ing them "to print the stamps for our warm possessions in a special non-fad- fading keeps up, the department will soon be the laughing stock of the na- lives down there"
 The little town of Morehead, Kansas, has put the cooperative idea into prac- tice with considerable success The place has population Of only 800 or 600 but it is growing rapidly. It is on the Santa Fe railroad in the heart of prosperous agricultural section. The | cooperative principle has been extend- 1 eral farms are run on it, one of the de- | tails being division of crops for the | purpose of relieving those farmers who | happen to suffer losses. Moreover the | town has cooperative hotel laundry, hall, creamery and canning factory, and a cooperative dining hall, at | which perhaps twenty-five persons take their meals, has just been established. |
 The increase of the July fire bill in this country and Canada over that of 1897 and 1898 is startling. In the for mer year the total amount of the losses was $6,626, 300. Last year the figures were $s,929,75O. But this year the to- tai is no less than sl1, 426, 400 For the first seven months of 1899 the aggre- gate is more than seventy-seven mill lions, far in excess of that of the last two years. The largest fire last month was that at the Toledo grain elevator. That brisk conflagration consumed $845,000 worth of property. There were twenty-five fires that destroyed each more than hundred thousand dollars worth, warehouses and factories being on the whole the greatest sufferers.
 The facts collected by the Engineer ing and Mining Journal for the seventh volume of the Mineral Industry indi- f ,ate the largest mineral and metal pro- { lucllO1 ever I6CoIu6u III the united States. High prices have stimulated , production to the utmost. Ii is inter- |, ssting to observe that aluminium was I produced in this country in 1898 to the , ,xtent of 5,20O, 900 pounds, an increase of 200 O00 pounds over 1891. The price r ,er pound was about 9 cents, The in ,reased price of copper caused large c " increased demand for the light metal ' Dur production of gold was 3,14S,6 GAP f ,unces. worth $65,0S2, ,4SO; of silver, 5S,- f 6S ,127 ounces, worth 59 cents an ounce, gainst 60.35 cents in 1897, The pig iron v product was 11,560, 165 long tons. The opper product was 535,900,0 900 pounds, |, large increase over 1897. Of platinum he output was 300 ounces, worth $12S0 4 n ounce Of phosphate rock the pro- uot was 1,251645 long tons, against l. O7 s67 in 1897, the increase coming from and South Carolina. An important matter under consider t