Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1895 — Palace Plated With Gold. [ARTICLE]

Palace Plated With Gold.

Th® Czar has a palace just outside St. Petersburg, known as CzarskoeSelo, which was built by Catherine the Great. Itisot vast extent and plated over with gold. It took nearly $1,000,000 worth of bullion to do the work, and when, owing to the dampness of the climate, it began to peel off, Catherine ordered it to be painted instead. Some Russian speculators wanted to scrape off the old gold and melt it over again, and they offered Catherine $500,000 for the job. She sent them to prison for insulting her with the proposition, and covered the palace with yellow paint.