The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-22
COOKERY IN VIENNA.
a Novel Exhibition Illustrating tho
Culinary Art

a Novel Exhibition Illustrating tho
Culinary Art.
Eastern Letter1
An exhibition of novel kind, illus
trating the culinary art, was held re.
Gently in Vienna. The keepers of all
the most renowned hotels and restau-
rants exercised their skill and powers of
invention to please the eye as well as
the palate; so that the jury, whose
honorary president is Count Kinsky,
the chief of the kitchen department at
court, had some difficulty in making it's
awards.
A telegram from Vienna to The Lon
don Daily News said: The cookery
exhibition has proved wonderful sue
cess. The Ring and all the streets
surrounding the horticultural halls are
blocked. Long rows of carriages and
dense crowds make movement all but
impossible. The exhibition doors were
closed three hours ago. Owing to the
large number of people admitted the
crowding became dangerous. Thous-
ands, however, waited outside and
clamored to be let in. The emperor
ard the archdukes visited the exhibi-
ton yesterday, and expressed their
satisfaction with what they saw. The
empress last night sent word that she
would visit the exhibition early this
morning. It was cleaned and lighted,
and at half-past z his majesty, with the
Archduchess Valerie, was received at
the gates, where electric lights were
shown in the wintry morning.
Among the most remarkable objects
to which her attention was drawn were
the gold dishes, in original and most
splendid forms One hotel disguises
its game pies, fish and cakes in various
shapes-a Roman emperor, Gothic
b .ildings, Chinese towers, fortresses,
Greek temples, and ships. A beefsteak
is decorated with bulls heads-small
masterpieces of plastic art. Pies show
their contents by having heads of
pheasants and grouse upon then. Two
sucking pigs dance upon their hind
legs on either side of pie over which
fiuttering hen seems to protect the
eggs under her, which are already made
into savory dish. A very remarkable
object is a large wild boar, whose
skeleton is exhibited side by side with
it. Pheasants, peacocks, game of all
kinds are shown in their natural form,
yet ready to be served. Besides these
| luxurious dishes, are exhibited economi-
cal dinners. All the paraphernalia of
kitchens, dining-rooms, cellars, are also
exhibited, and among this mass of deli
cate objects crowds numbering over
5000 persons slowly move.
When the doors were closed to pre-
vent the public from storming the en-
trance panic siezed the people inside,
who did not know how to get out. At
last officials from the balcony explained
that one small ba k-door was open,
but a disaster well-nigh happened.
While this one narrow outlet was alone
| open curtain caught fire from an
electric wire. Happily few noticed it.
When the people outside became very
clamorous an official from window
begged them to disperse, as it would
endanger their lives to let them in. The
crowds dispersed for a quarter of an
hour. Now, at IL o'clock, they are as
dense as ever. The exhibition was
prolonged by one day, but the general
cry was why objects of such interest to
all were not exhibited in the rotunda.
Song OF siberian Exiles.
prince Krapotkine in Nineteenth Century
AS the party enters some great vii
lage, it begins to sing the "Miloserd-
naya"-the charity song" They call
it song, but it hardly is that. It is a
succession of woes escaping from hun.
dreds of breasts at once, a recital in
very plain words, expressing with q
childish simplicity the sad fate of the
convict = a horrible lamentation by
means of which the Russian exile ap-
peals to the mercy of other miserables
like himself. Centuries of suferings
pains and misery, of prosecutions that
crush down the most vital forces of our
nation, are heard in these recitals and
shrieks. These tones of deep sorrow
recall the tortures of the last century
the stifed cries under the sticks and
whips of our own time, the darkness oi
the cellars, the wildness of the woods
the tears of the starving wife. The
peasants of the villages on the Siberian
highway understand these tunes; they
know their true meaning from theil
own experience, and the appeal of the
Neschastnyie-of the sufferers, as oul
people call all prisoners is answered
by the poor; the most destitute widow
signing herself with the cross, brings
her coppers, or her piece of bread, and
deeply bows before the chained "suf
: ferer,' grateful to him for not disdain
ing her small Offering
The British House of Commons.
THE Current.
The British house of commons is tx
have new speaker when it meets mex
month The election of q sneaker il