Show ELECTRIC headlights electric headlights for railway loco motives are coming very generally into use in the western states and are paying for themselves in saving the railway companies large sums formerly paid tor cattle killed on the track tho light will show a cow or horse at a quarter of a mile on a dark night with a good clean reflector the intensity of the light Is about candle power on the front of tho locomotive boiler lust aft of the Is located a small dynamo and a steam turbine the whole being coupled together and enclosed in a watertight casing to light up the engineer simply turns on steam the apparatus absorbing about 11 horse power when in operation with one trimming of carbons the headlight will burn eight hours without further attention the failure of the democrats to denounce the annexation of hawaii was I 1 doubtless doubt lesa due to the fact that the vote of hawaii alone enabled them to revive the 16 to 1 corpse |