The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-12-13
ITEMS or INTEREST.

Heavy cars. each holding sixty pas
seugers. travelled easily thirtySscven
miles IN one hour over the Albany ana
Hudson electric railway, az the formal
opening recently. The road Is interesting
IN that Il is the longest third rail" road
In the world. and. although an experiment.
It seems 70 be perfect success.
"A recent number Of the Railway Jour.
nal contains a story OF railway ticket
which took a sudden journey on It's own
account As the northbound train on the
Colorado and Southern Road passed one
OF the stations a passenger In forward
car raised a window, aud Ia an instant
his ticket was blown from his hands out
OF doors. The passenger naturally gave
Il w for lost. ana was very much sur
prised when the baggage master handed
Il to him a little while later. II anpcars
that who's the ticket flew through the
window a southbound train was PASSING
The suction OF that train. which was
moving at rapid rate, drew the ticket
along with II. and as % passed the rear
end OF the northbound train u blew into
the door OF the smoking car. There Il
was found by the baggagemaster.
The two-horncd white rhinoceros of
Africa Is considered one OF the rarest Of
animals For years needless sportsmen
slaughtered the species until Il WIS
thought TO have been exte minated Some
time ago six specimens were discovered
IN "a remote corner OF Mash0naland. and
a hunting expedition was o gauiZed which
resulted IN four much-dcsired mountings
being secured by museums. IL was again
concluded that the white rhinoce. os had
been exterminated. but recently Maj.
Gibbons OF the British army ran across
a stray specimen IN the Nile region AMI
sh0; a. This Andrew Carnegie succeeded
In buying for tho Carnegie museum CT
Pittsburg. and It IS a mos desl able curlo.
for besides being exceedingly rare, IL IS
said to be a fne mounting. standing Elk
feet high at the shou ders and measuring
70 feet from the tip OF the nose 20 the
root OF the tail.
"A good many typical American ho-
boes drift down TO Central America
says a business man quoted by the New
Orleans Times Democrat, "aud one good
thing about Il Is that they never ger
back again Tho country seems TO suit
them up TO the hllt. have been watch.
ing the tramp travel for several years,
and Il has afforded me considerable
amusement. Some OF them scrape up
enough money TO pay for a deck passage.
but most Of them either stow away or
go down as roust-abouts. When they
land. they generally drift a little dis
lance into the interior, and that settles
u. In Nicaragua and Costa Rica espe-
clally life IS very easy FOR an able bodied
man who has an aversion to working and
Is not very particular about his surround
ings. All he has to do Is TO marry
native woman and settle down In some
little banana or cocoanut grove for the
balance OF his days To my certain knowl-
edge that Is exactly what has been done
by large number Of Weary Willies from
the United States"
The Queen OF italy has a great fancy
for collecting old boots and shoes OF by
gone celebrities, and has some very beau
tiful. as well as very interesting treas
ures. which are in an admirable state OF
preservation. says the New York Journal.
She has a shoe worn by Joan Of Arc. enc
shoe which belonged TO Mary Queen OF
Scots. and another which encased the
foot OF Marie Antoinette. The Princess
Of Wales has a remarkable collection Of
hats and bonnets. consisting OF al those
she has worn during the thirty Odd yea
she has led London fashion. Each hat
or bonnet. carefully put away bears the
date OF the season OF It's use; and a his
tory OF the whims. changes and vaganes
of feminine fashion, which are never 50
capricious as IN the mater OF headdrcss.
might well be written upon this interest
ing collection. There are a number OF
royal photograph collectors. but Il Is to
be doubted whether there Is any one who
has pursued the hobby with such ordor as
Princess Beatrice. She has been an as
siduous collector OF phOtogra phs ever
since she was a child, and has many
thousands neatly labeled indeXod aud
packed away There are about eight hun
dred photographs placed about her va
rious rooms, and the walls Of her b u
doir are simply covered with views and
poftraits Her sister. Princess Louise. Is
an adert az sculpture from living models.
Tho generating OF electricity by means
OF wind power IL receiving considerable
attention IN Germany and in a recent is-
sue OF the Elektrotechnische Zehschrift
Il Is stated that Gustave Couz. OF the
"Gustavo Couz elektricitats gesel Ischaft.' o.
In Hamburg has been experimenting in
this direction with promising results. A
wind motor has been erected at the w0Fks
Of the company in question, which has a
diameter OF 20 feet and an effective sail
surface OF 100 square feet The mossr
works at the race Of about eleven revo-
luilons per minute. which speed is regu-
lated by the automatic modification OF the
direction OF the sails TO the wind with
this motor an output Of one horsepower
10 thirty horse power and more may be
obtained. according to the force OF the
wind, which power - transmitted 10 a
thirty-horse-power shunt-wound. ironclad
dynamo. designed to give ID amperos az
leo volts terminal pressure when running
at 100 revolutions per minute. The cur
rent generated by this machine Is con
Quoted TO a switchboard and thence 70
storage batteries having a capacity OF 65 .
90 watt-hours, or may be delivered 10
electro motors
The poorer classes OF the Chinese eat
every part OF an animal and an kinds OF
animals. writes Frank G. Carpenter in
the Kansas City Journal. In North China
horse meat. mule meat and donkey meat
are everywhere sold. There are butcher
shops IN Pekln where you can buy camel
steaks The age OF an animal or the
manner OF its death makes no difference
as 10 the sale. Such beasts as die OF old
age and disease are marketable. and ca,
Ito taken OF with pleuro-pneumonia arc
not allowed 10 80 TO waste. Dead dogs
and cats are eaten as well as deas
fowls. / had gastronomic discussion the
other night with Or. Hykes. the head OF
the American Bible Society. during which
he described trip he made some years
ago through the Yangste valley. There
had been great floods and nearly an In,
food had been swept away. He was try
fru n live off fhs rnttufrt a.