Show ducor iad alic many queer fads of royalty is one possessed by both the late czar and liis brother in law the duke of sa ce coburn gotha namely a craze for collecting models of ships especially cruisers in the case of anko alfred they are all of there arc some sixty or seventy of them several bein three to four feet in length and they form an imposing fleet in the long pal lery in which they been placed in his palace at coburg thosa emperor of russia while merely of wood and brass made up in perfection of finish and detail what they lacked in their intrinsic value and one of the last additions to the collection was a model over seven feet conff of the cunard steamer lucania constructed at cost of over thousand dollars |