Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-05

!yPHdt'on Of the Different Couatri 5 OF
te Globe. -
Inc famous Gotha Aim mach, now in its
IIotn year, is out for 1876. II is writer. as
we Iearn from the New York Times rev .av.
III scruoDy French from the Gotha stand
polLti out thIs Is merely a mark of its gen
ulnt ness, for, as its most choice Giro iIa.ton
As IN European sristocratic circles, it would
pt improper Tor IL To display a more polished
kL0wledge OF that language than it, chief
patrons ar known TO possess. For this We ar
tne Almar ach is prefaced with four unusu-
Ely unse thetic portraits. Alfonso, King of
Spain, al pears as the chief hero of the day
Rodolphl s, the Austrian emperor's son and
nelr u IDLY stares US in the face. Elizabeth,
prince OF Prussia, looks on her allotted Bris-
tOl DO; I'd to have just snapped in two a ten
penny nail, and Delbruck a statesman, also
OF ussla, favors US with very penetrating
visual apparatus These four pictures close
the list, and the succeeding pages are left TO
be inwardly digested as best they may.
There are thirty eight sOverelgns and three
sovereign, eighty three, and has reigned the
longest, twenty nine years. Emperor VIII
liam comes next, and is seventy eight. TIE
Car is nfty-Seven; Queen Victoria, fifty six:
NlCt,r Emanuel. ffty-five; Francis Joseph,
forty four; and Alfonso the youngest OF ali
aisl teen San Marine is the oldest republic,
sWitZel land is the next, and France the
n est OF all. having been born at Sedan,
In 1870. There are now officially recognized
and respected 1i5 orders of chivslry. includ-
Ing thoseot the White Elephant of Siam aud
Bolivar's Bustof Venezuela. The American
80 er or the Crooked WHISKY ring is not on
the list. va
GFRMtNY's RULERS,
William l., both emperor of Germany aud
chief III me Hoher ZOliern family As king of
Prussia, was born March -. 1871, and ac-
cepte' rhe imperial dignity AT VarSaiIiaS
Janurr Is. 1871 Augusta. his wife. was horn
september 80, 1911; thus they constitute a
pretty elderly couple to be holding the reins
oyer Eve forty millions of people. Their son,
Frederick William, known as Our r ritz"
nelr apparent. was born October Is, 1881 and
is The husband of the English queen : dauph-
Ler' Victoria, born November q. 1870 Fran
CTS Joseph, emperor of Austria. was born
august IL, 1880. He is King of Hungary aud
allows himself good many titles besides
notably that Of king OF Jerusalem, king.
ship which his friend Victor Emmanuel
claims There are large number of arch
duEeS ana duchesses belonging TO mis- fan,itv
az his brothers are archdnkes, and his father
before him was one. The imperial Bona
parte family is recorded. though its reign
was eclips ed by the fall OF Napoleon III
The father's son, Prince Eugene Louis lean
Joseph Napoleon. born March 1G 1856 is a
candidate for third term OF his house in
France, and there are chances that he NAV
yet wear the purple in that country. This
NouEg heros mother was a Miss Guzman-
PIaioX, fourteenth countess of Teba three
times grsndee OF Spain of the first class, who
was born May 3, iS26. and so she is well mi -,
nan n$ century now. Her father, Count
MohtlJo, was SIX times graniee of Spain of
the first class-a Spanish way of coiIntino
Plon-PIon Mathilde, and the rest OF the Ma,
IoleoiS may ne passed over. IL is Suffi
TO state that they are all wide awake and on
the lookout for times less bard. The Il our
oOns, n very extensive family which former
- reIehed over many European countries,
are also recorded as beipg slightly in ahev,
hnce ior the present. The heat of its eldest
branch. the Count de Chambord was horn
SerteInber 20, 1920, and claims TO be the only
legitimate owner or the crown of France
which he usually wears at FrohstOrf. In
Lower AU,tr!a. The heal OF the cadet
blanch, The Count de Paris, was born Au-
"a hoo
sisters be is DESTROYS of placing Mt court If
ever he should he mefamorphoSed into king
OF ia rls; he has no brothers in law Don
y LfCnsO. OF Spain, was born Noven her ~
1s5I: his M ther is the celebrated eX omen
lsabeila, AID his purtive father her f-st
toutiD, hOn Francisco. whom she married
oct1 Der 10, 1915: This is a relgHilg family
VICTORIA, VICTOR EMMANUEL, AND THE
POPE
Queen Victoria was born May 81, 1919 The
queen has a good many children married 20
members Of the chief reiguing families The
Prince of Wales has for his wife and future
queen the daughter of the King OF Denmark;
the duke OF Edinburgh is marrlaI To tine
dar-ater OF the car; the Princes Victoria to
The crown prince of Germany.
fTince Augustus Of Sch! eSwig -HOlstein was
Dorm October p. 1858. He has an uncle amt
and n grsat-uncle living, and though his
prlncipality was Incorporated into Prussia
after the war of lsGi with Denmark his fam-
lily has still many branches eXtant Victor
r emmanuel was born March IL ISl0. and is
the father of q family of four children who
nave all sat on the thrones OF Italy, France.
spain and Portugal; CIOtilda at the TuIIIe,
rles with her husband Plon- PIon Amadeo
AT Madrid, Maria PA az Lisbon, AMI the
crown prince at Rome. This sovereign mar
zen, nnrganatlcaliy 1.-The beautiful R0sina."
sept. %. 1'69, and although the GOtha author
tues nave cOnGescended To notice the mar
rage, they do not credit him with any chill
uTen as resulting therefrom, which is not a
ali strange, since there are none to credit:
has no brothers or brothers -in-law POpe
Plus IN. was born May IS, 1892, at SInigag-
ia Iialy, aud is a member OF the noble house
OF Mastai- Ferretti; elected pope on the death
OF Gregory XVI, and crowned June 81 1916:
his baptismal name Is John Mary John Ran
tist refer PeIegrino IsodOro. The princes of
IIlechtenstein, Lippe, StrelitZ Reuss SaYe-
-Meiningen- A tenbure- (yoburo and
Gotha, Schaumburg, Schwarzburg and otn-
ers, with their brothers and sisters aunts
and uncies, are OF insufficient weight to ar
rest the attention long. Truly of a very re
mote and illustrious origin, the new ernpire
OF which they form component parts has
t ,boas mem 10 dWindie seriously, and hence
tney may ne declined with the remark that
they constitute twenty-five different NOM
maj sovereignties under Emperor william
alexander, or Russia, was born on the 10Th
and IL IN OF April, 1918; succeeded his father
Ntcholas, in 1883, and is the author of si2
children; has two brothers and three sisters
No more Kings need particularizing; and,
Gazing tne whole together, all that can hs
Sd ID 81 them is that they require a eood deal
OF help IN putting on their bots.
CHAPTER ON PRINCES.
Inc second part OF the Almanach is de-
voted 10 prin ces-genealOgica section. Space
tOrbids climbing of ali the trees OF the no.
bic families of Great Britain, Germany
rance, Italy, 'as well az other houses be-
longing TO the highest aristocracy of Eu-
rope" without the aid of an elevator which
could only be used sacrllegiOuSly in such a
case. Two hundred and sixteen pages are
accorded them for the description OF these
Ibl houses, embracing the entire stock OF
european arts tOcracy worth taking of ones
nat 10; since the remaining drlblets not mem
TONED IN The "AlmaDach de GOtha," are in
deeC small beer. Thus, 80 monarchs and lei
FAMILY stocks rule over two hundred mil
lions Of people, politically and socially. The
nutshell is powerfully big for such a small
kerDt l. The Irish duke of Abercorn heads
the class, which is appropriately footed up
by the (irecian Prince Yyslaut!; between
this Alpha aud Omega the others stand. The
house OF Bismark, being in the BIS, first At
tracts nOtic9-Protestdn The princely
house of BiSmaTk belongs TO the great and
noble German family of Blsmark, which as
early as the thirteenth century Ill tin gu lshed
Itself In the service of its country on genera
principles of annexa5iOA In 1915 Nicholas
10. was installed head OF the house of Burg
kthlI hy the inargrave OF Brandeburg: and in
laoZ inns house was exchanged for another
one called SchOenhauSen, whence we oct fba
present Dr. Prince, his serene hIyhnasS ono
p t...s 10