Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-05
1T PAYS TO BE A ROYAL RULER.
The Profits OF Concerning to Wear TIN
ToSgery of a King.

The Profits of Concerning to Wear the
Toggery Of King.
The trade of = King. Judging by the
current statements made of the fortune
left by the late Kaiser Wilhelm. must
be good one. 1t is announced as
amounting to 24,000.000 marks ofwhich
one-half is placed in the Crown
Treasury and the other half is divided
according to the viii left by the Kaiser.
A German mark is twenty-three
cents and eight mills of our currency
The late Emperor's fortune then was
S5,612,000. One-half, or s., 500, 900. is
divided. The Dowager Empress
Augusta receives S714,000; the Grand
Duchess of Baden, Frederick's sister,
the Crown Prince and Prince Henry,
his brother, and the Crown Princess
are each bequeathed 1888, 600. Prince
Henry has already received an estate
OF the same value as his present be-
quest. The total amount bequeathed
by the will to these members of his
family is 81 ,656, 900. The balance, ST.
10000, is begueathed to other per-
sons.
The Royal House of Hohenzollern is
a prudent one. 1t is also rich one. The
head of it need not be named in his pre-
decessor's will, as by entail and family
compact he receives a great estate,
consisting of lands, residences, fran
chises, and business of a profitable
character in different forms. The
German Emperor's civil list is $685.
600 per year. This is a pretty good
''billet" for an old soldier. The Brad
enburger Sergeant who has just passed
over might have earned few thousand
marks a year if he had been compelled
to depend upon his own resources, but
it is doubtful. However, he had his
fortune and did not waste it.
The ''softest snap to use a bit of
slang, in all Europe is that which the
Queen of Great Britain and Empress of
India is in possession of. She has
been on the throne over fifty years.
During that period the British people
have given her, under the name of
civil list Expenditures, sos, 275, 900. In
addition to this vast total $4S, GO, 765
has been expended Counting 1881 for
maintenance of seventeen royal resi-
dences, stables, etc. The total direct
expenditure for the Queen alone for
her fifty-one years is $142, 951. 765, or
over $2,S00,00 per annum. There is
The thifty lady who has had this
vast income at her disposal has taken
care to make ebay while the sun
shines" OF course the money has
been voted to enable her to keep up the
ornamental state considered necessary
for q royal position. But it is just this
she does not do. A peculiar fact in
illustration Of her prudence is seen in
the non-probating of her husbands
will. He is known to have left large
fortune. The English Treasury has
never been increased by the legacy tax
due from the estate of albert the
Good" who should have been named
Albert the Prudent. 1t has been COM
monty considered in Great Britain
as matter of good policy for the
estates. Victoria, besides valuable
Continental property, is the owner of
three estates in the United Kingdom.
They are Balmoral, in Aberdeenshire,
Scotland; Osborne House. Isle of
Wight. Hampshire; and Claremont,
Surrey. These embrace 1851 acres,
with a rental value per year of $27 ,S05.
At twenty years purchase that would
be 1906, 100. In fact, they are worth
double that amount.
The annual public income of the
Prince of Wales is 1888, S05. He has
rentals valued at $40, 900 from two pri-
vate estates, having 1880 acres, and
purchased by his mothers savings.
The Duke and Duchess Of Edinburg
are the richest of Victoria's children.
The Duchess Olga has an annual in
come from huSsi1r of Gill, 25o--The
Duke has a public one of Sl50, 600. The
Duke is one of the shrewdest, not to
say meanest, of fnnnciers. A story
current in the Antipod2s declares that
when he visited the colonies there he
made the local Governments pay for
the presents made. A newspaper man
of this city, who was MILDLY on the
same ship as his Royal Highness, is
responsible for the statement that
Edinburg was then in the habit of
taking" his mothers autograph on
her photograph, and, through his SER
want, selling them to the officers and
middies at half a sovereign each. 1t
has been said also that Edinburg loans
money through the Leavy-Lawsons of
the London Telegraph
The Guelphs are a thrifty lot, any
how. But if John Bull likes it we
have no business to grumble, or even
to criticise- Yorb Graphic.