House and Garden 
broken out in the Imperial Museum at 
Vienna, and has led to the resignation, 
in a fit of anger, of Archduke Rainer, 
the venerable founder and protector of 
the institution, and he has been followed 
into retirement by the director and the 
entire staff of the museum, which is now 
without a head or management of any 
kind. It seems that the director, an 
easy-going court official of the name of 
Baron Scala, was suddenly seized the 
other day with the prevailing mania for 
quarreling, and, to the amazement of 
every one, declared that the Austrian 
furniture—admittedly the most artistic 
and picturesque in the world—was en¬ 
tirely unaesthetic and that English Chip¬ 
pendale was the only furniture that was 
worthy of figuring in the museum. 
Consequently, he had everything in the 
shape of Austrian furniture relegated to 
the cellars. When remonstrated with 
by the courtly old Archduke he told him 
curtly to go about his business, the Arch¬ 
duke declaring that he had never been 
talked to in such a manner in his life. 
Still more aggressive did the Baron show 
himself to others who ventured to inter¬ 
fere, and after developing all the qual¬ 
ities of the traditional bull in the china 
shop, he literally bounced out of office 
in a fit of rage .—Marquise de Fontenoy 
in the Philadelphia Press. 
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TT 7 HEN the average German painter 
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tribution a pine forest, a railway, several 
heavy wagons, a small army of laborers, 
and a blacksmith shop. Then he pro¬ 
ceeds to set the forest up anew against 
the face of the building, in the shape of a 
complex scaffolding, braced endwise 
and crosswise and dogged together so 
that nothing short of a cyclone could 
move it. The scaffolding is usually 
made by setting tall “Kiefer” trunks 
(with the bark on, except on the lower 
six feet or so) upright, butts down, 
against the face of the building; then 
about four feet out from the building 
another set, also vertical; then about 
three feet from these last poles another 
set, inclined inwards so that their tips 
cross the second set near the tips of the 
latter. These poles, in sets of three, 
two verticals and a brace, are fastened 
together at least once, and sometimes 
twice, in every story, by six-inch boards 
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