The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-01-30

GAsrRoNoMY.-The following curious
details regarding the gastronomic tastes of
the reigning sovereigns of Europe, are
taken from Paris paper.
Napoleon III.-A Abstemious, cautious;
never making the slightest remark to the
serya ts Moderate drinker, but great
smoker.
Queen Victoria-Abstemious Pusey-
lite, liking beef and pastry.
Alexander II-Hearty eater, connois-
seur in wine, preferring Champagne and
Burgundy and fond of game.
His Prussian Majesty Good drinker
(Roedcrer, etc.), beef, mutton, biscuits
and sweet things. A pleasant and unaf-
fected host.
His Majesty of Austria. Silent at
table, eats dark meat, especially mutton
and game, and drinks the national wines
of Hungary and Bordeaux.
Victor Emmanuei-Mighty hunter.
Capital appetite, eats only white meat
and small game. Kills wild boar, but
never eats their meat; drinks the Cote'd
Or wines.
Isabella of Spain.-Great appetite !;
prefers veal and white meats, drinks
Spanish wines and Bordeaux.
The Sultan.-Partisan Of strong meats.
of rice, of pastry, of Eastern fruit, and
of Burgundy.
His Dutch Majesty has the finest cellar
in Europe; fond Of fish, and especially
salmon. His ncighbor of Belgium eats
very little, and always small game, and
dripks sparingly of Bordeaux.
The ex-king OF Hanover lives on tho
Bohemian pheasant, the woodcock OF
Galicia, and smoked ham Of Styria and
drinks Moselle and the Rhine wines.
King Louis of Portugal is the smallest
eater in Europe.
RICH MOBILES OF ENGLAND.-Speak-
ing of the rich man of England, it is said
the Earl of Dudley is one of the richest
noblemen of that little island. OF his
wealth it is said:
His territorial possessions and country
seats in Staffordshire and Worchester-
shire, England, his shootipg-grounds in
Scotland and the cast of England, his
mansion and picture gallery in London,
his winter palace in Rome, even his valu-
able mineral estate in Merionetshire, fade
into insigni6cance when compared with
his mines and colleries, and iron works
around the midland town which takes
his title. The latter estate-horey-
combcd by industry beneath, hlackened
by industry on the surface covers an
area Of ten square miles. 1t furnishes
employment for nine thousand working
people, and reckoning in their families,
wholly supports at a moderate computa-
ton, something like seven and twenty
thousand human beings. 1t is intersect-
ed by two private canals and trayersed
by forty miles of railroad. The horses
employed upon it are numerous enough
to supply a cavalry regiment; the canal
boats to furnish a feet The steam
power used is simply incalculable, it is
SO dispersed. Eight locomotives ply upon
its railways. There are forty boilers in
one of its works, and twenty in another.
Every pit and every furnace over and
under the whole ten miles has accompany
ing steam engines. This vast estate
yields seventy thousand tons Of pig iron
per week, to say nothing of the limestone
used for fux; and it sends manufactured
iron into all the markets of the world.
Nearly hundred heads of departments
are engaged in managing it, and It takes
over three hundred clerks to keep tho
accounts. The annual outlay in wages
does not fall far short of half million
sterling.
The nanier dress is now called the