Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — Some Idiot Archdukes. [ARTICLE]

Some Idiot Archdukes.

Bismarck's epithet, “Austria’s Idiot archduke,” seems not undeserved, Carl Ludwig, Apparently Austria's future emperor, is so parsimonious that he allows his cook only 2 florins (92 cents) a day for each member of his household, and on this the cook must provide four meals a day. Ills daughter-in-law, wife of Archduke Otto, pays her board from her husband's allowance when she visits him. Carl Ludwig is also fond of embroidering beautiful vestments for his clergy. Ills younger brother, Ludwig Victor, is a confirmed woman hater.—lndianapolis News.