How The Czar Travels
Even as the Russians are surpassing the Turks in the field, so does the Czar excel the Sultan in Oriental magnificenoe. Whenever he travels by railway he makes use of liis own private train of seventeen carriages, fitted up in the most luxviriant style. Every joumey of the Czar from Plojesti to Bucharest (sixty kilómetros) costs 6,000 francs ($1,400) for railway expenses. At the imperial table no less than 4,000 bottles of champagne are dronk every month. The proprietor of the Hotel Brofft at Bucharest has undertaken the canteen of the imperial headquarters. Por this purpose he has provided four especial conveyances, each drawn by four horses, 9liuouvri2iiii'ïL- preserves" caviare, anchovies, etc., etc. A bottle of Bordeaux costs 15 francs; of Ehine wine 20 francs; and of champagne, 25 francs. A sandwich of bread and butter and Swiss. cheese costs 3 francs. Some idea of the difficulties of a conunissariat may be gathered from the fact that M. Brofft has just received a consignment of preserved vegetables from Paris, of the value of 127,000 francs. And yet we are told that the luxury of the imperial mess is nothing compared to that
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