Huntsville gazette., 1889-04-27
AN IMPERIAL COOK.
How the Empress of Austria Prepares He
Meals While Travelling.

How the Empress of Austria PrepareS Her
Meals While Travelling.
The Empress Elizabeth, of Austria pos
sesses travelling basket containing a com
plete culinary arrangement incl lding
cooking apparatus extract Of meat plates,
dishes, etc, which she terms her "Bijou"
This basket is quite curiosity. 1t is most
elegantly fitted up, and at the same time
well adapted to its purpose and enables its
owner to prepare an excellent plate Of soup
when on a journey.
The Empress is very fond Of strong broth
and takes pleasure in preparing it herself
while travelling in the train. She then has
recourse to her "Bijou," sets the water to
boil In her silver saucepans with golden
handles, puts in extract Of meat and other
Ingredients with her own hands, and de-
clares thatno cook could provide broth more
palatable and nourishing.
Similar handy little travelling baskets,
fitted with every requisite fer cooking,
and comprising among the rest variety
of condensed meats and vegetables, are
now in the market and will no doubt, be
appreciated by persons of delicate consti
tutions, with whom hotel fare is apt to dis
agree
The Empress Elizabeyh's travelling basket
was copied from one ordered by Queen Vic
toria for the Empress Eugene. don
Court Journal
STATISTICS show that more men are killed
or MANNED for life annually in the United
States from Stacking cars than in all OF
the wrecks from collisions, fires or other
railroad accidents.
IT is said to be an actual fact that so
ciety Of well-to-do young women has bsen
formed in New York for the systematic
study of the constitution of the United
States and of the time and condition that
led to it's adoption.
THE inventor and manufacturer OF the
latest popular puzzle, "pigs in clover" lives
at Waverly, N. Y, and is so overwhelmed
with orders that his profits are said to be
S1oO day, and they would be $1,000 if he
could fill the orders.
FLoCKs Of wild dogs, possessing all tho
characteristics of wolves, infest some OF
the Southern counties of Ohio. They at
tack every living thing men, women, chill
dren, pigs, turkeys, geese, etc.-and have
been known to destroy entire t1ockS OF
sheep.
RECENT explorations show that the Flor
ida reefs grow the finest corals and sponges,
equal, if not superior, to the best quality OF
the Mediterranean sponges. Hundreds OF
Sicilian divers are emigrating to America
and find profitable employment aro@nd Key
West.
ACCORDING to the Examiner, there are
houses in San Francisco to which victims Of
themorphine habit resort. They are cared for
until their money gives out, when they are
kicked out of doors. A hyperdermic syringe
is called ''gun," and woman who is en-
ployed to give theinjections is known as the
gunner" Each shot costs five cents.
IN spite of opposition, the woman's club
seems to be gaining ground everywhere.
None of the large cities is without score
of them, and the minor towns and villages
are now furnishing their quota, to the list
The objects of these embrace nearly every
subject known to man, and q good Tnany
which are not. Literature, art, dress,
woman's work, economy and politics are the
fayorite themes Of the club women. -