The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-04-29
How ROYAL Families Live.

England stands at the head Of all Eu-
ropean nations in the cost of its nobility
and Germany in the expenses of main
tanning the royal family alone. The
latter empire, with a population of not
more than As, 900, 900, has to support
twenty-five royal, princely and ducal
maintenance is SIC, 500, 600.
In Prussia and several of the other
German States the reigning family, be-
sides its public income, possesses very
large private estates, and, indeed, in
some of the States the.princes are the
chief land. owners.
Turkey comes next to Germany in its
royal expenditures, the total amount abb
sorbed by the sultan and his family be-
ing about SIC, 6,250. 900. The imperial
family of Russia costs that country $12,-
$50, 900, and the greater part which
comes in the shape of rents from the
crown. domains which consist of
more than million square miles
of land, besides gold and silver
mines. The Austrian imperial family
is tolerably well off, which comes directly
from the public purse.
The sum expended on account Of the
British royal family will be increased by
$50, 600 year on the coming marriage
OF the Princess Beatrice, and it is ex-
pected that there will shortly be a call
for an income for the oldest son of the
Prince of Wales. Yet the sum thus
granted will be but homeopathic dose
compared with the annual expenditures
in appointments, salaries pensions and
moneys received by the families and re-
lations of dukes, marquises, earls, Wis
counts and barOns, amounting to the
prodigious total of $10S, GA, $50, divided
as follows; Twenty eight families of
dukes take $9,760, 900; thirty-three
families of marquises, So, 305, $50; 20G
families of earls, $4S, 181, 903; sixty
families of viscounts, $11, 241, 200; 211
families of barons, $31, 1876, 1SS. OF these
the Duke of Richmond heads the list
with 81, 600, 600; followed by the Duke
of Wellington, 81, 425, 500; the Duke of
Grafton, 81, 115, $50, and so on. The old
Duchess of Cambridge, now eighty eight
years of age, continues to draw from the
British treasury $50, 900 year, beside
enjoying the royal palaces of st. James
and Kew as her residences. Her son, the
queens cousin, receives about $110, 900
a year from the same source TO comDen-
safe him for the loss of the throne, which
would have been his had the queen died
without an heir, or had never been born.
Italy pays her royal family SO, 800, 900
yeaT, which is very large sum in pro-
portion to the means of the country,
while Spain disburses on the same ac-
count $1,000, ,0O0 This ends the list of
European monarchies of large popula-
tion. But the minor monarchies also pay
their royal families very large sums.
Belgium, with about as large popula-
tion as the State of New York, pays
5000, 900 year to her king, and Portu-
gal with three quarters of million less
population, pays S636, 600, Monarchy
costs Sweden and Norway S5S7 500 an
nually; Denmark, 1910, O00 Holland,
1915, 900; Roumania, S24O, 900, and
Greece. 100000. But $50, 600 of this
last sum is paid by England, France
and Russia. Republican France gives
her president $3.50, 900, two-thrds of
which is in the form of salary and one
third for household expenses.
The Swiss republic pays its president
/ $500 year, which is probably the
smallest sum that the head of any civil
/ lied nation in the world receives. All
the expenditures of Switzerland are on a
correspondingly low scale. With popu-
lation approaching 5000, 600, the entire
expenditures Of the confederation does
not reach $40, 1000 900 annually.
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