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Show SOME COSTLY KITCHENS. Ituyalty Reeada Mueh for Cooklag lien. lla. Royal kllehetia Invariably are expensive. expen-sive. The present Czur of Itutala aoon aftor hla accession spent ft0,0O0 In remodeling and refurnishing the royal kitchena at the winter palace, St. Pcteraburg. All the cooking utenalla are of solid silver, and Include 40 stewing stew-ing pans, none uf which could be pur-chaaed pur-chaaed under aa many pounda. The pice boxes are of .olid gold, engraved with the royal arms, and the ranges) and ovens are edged with allver, Tha actual cost of rebuilding the kitchena wsa 30.000, tha purest blnrk marble being uaed throughout, and the decoration, decor-ation, were reaponnlble for an outlay of 6.000. Among the booking utenrlle should be mentioned ,1,000 silver spoona and a gold gridiron that belonged to the great Catherine. The chlnf cook, drawa a aalary of 8.000 a year, and be baa lx aubordlnatea In receipt of aalarlea ranging between 1,000 and 1.600, to say nothing of hundreds of supernumeraries. Altogether the Csar'a kitchen cxponaea amount to 120,000 per annum. The next moat costly roytl kitchen belonga to the Spnnh-h court, the cooking cook-ing utenalla nlone linvlng a faoa raluai of nearly 1fi.nn). Thoy are of a great age. The Rhnh of l'ersla'a kitchen lav Teheran. Is, however, the moat vslu--able kitchen In tho world. Even tbal cooking pot. are lined with gold, and the plates and dlshea used at the royal, table aro of aolld gold, Incru.ted with precious atone. If It were possible for the contents of the Shah's kitchen to be put up for auction tnoj would realise more than 1,000,000, |
