Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — An E?ormous Palace. [ARTICLE]

An E?ormous Palace.

The huge winter palace at St Petersburg, with the exception of the Vatican and Versailles, is the largest palace in the world intended for a residence, and, though’ tasteless and rococo, has a certain grandeur from its immensity. Like all the Russian palaces, the Winter Palace is a mixture of splendor and shabbiness, luxury and discomfort. In going over it visitors see everything gorgeously adapted for state ceremonials, but wonder how and where the imperial family can live. The whole of the splendid interior was consumed by tire in 1837. but speedily restored. It is said that not less than 6.0C0 persons have fre quently had a habitation in the Winter Palace. Mi discussing lager beer a German critU Insists that there is in-the German vocabulary no such word as lager, which he believes to be purely a Viennese expression. There is also very little lager about a great deal of beer that is nut nut.