The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-04-14
uyIne uoNARcns OF EUROPE.
One Queen, Three EMPEROR One sultal
Thirteen Kings Two PreGident&

Queen Victoria now holds place
among the oldest sovereigns OF
Europe, says the New York Sun.
In May of next year she will be sew
enty years of age. She has been
on the throne for half a century.
She enjoys good health and bids
fair to reign and live for many
years yet. If she attains the age of
her grandfather, George III, she
will WELD the scepter (barring ac-
cidents) up to the year 1901. If at
that time her son, the Prince of
Wales, becomes King he will have
reached the ripe age Of sixty years
and his tendency to badness will
doubtless have become more marked
than it it is now.
The new German Emperor Fred
erick is fifty-seven years of age, and
his Empress, the daughter of Queen
Victoria, is forty-eight. Judging
from photographs, he does not
closely resemble his departed father
in the face, but she looks very much
like her mother.
The King of the Belgians, Leo
pold II, is fifty-three years old, and
if he should reign until he reaches
the age at which his father died he
will be King up to the year 1910.
He has been on the throne nearly
twenty-three years.
The Emperor of Austria, Francis
Joseph, is fifty-eight years old, and
he has worn the Imperial Crown
for forty years. His predecessor
was his uncle, who abdicated the
throne in his favor when but
fifty-five years of age, because
he was tired of the turmoil and
trouble. Francis Joseph is pol
ished scholar, lingaist, an eques-
trian, an admirer of military pomp
and charmer. He is healthy. and
bids fair to reign for a long time
yet (barring accidents).
The King of Italy, Humberto I
is forty-four years old and has worn
the Crown since the death Of his
father. ten years ago. He is but
the second of the kings of united
Italy, and his throne is in the Eter.
nal City of Rome.
The Emperor of Russia, Alexan-
der III, is forty-three years of age
and mounted the throne after the
murder Of his father, seven years
ago.
The King of Denmark, Christian
TX, is seventy years of age, or
year older than Queen Victoria, and
is the second oldest monarch in
Europe. He has welded the scep-
ter for a quarter of a century, or
just half as long as the British
Queen. One of his daughters is
the wife of the Russian Car, an
other of them is the wife of the heir
apparent to the British Crown, and
his second son is King Of Greece.
The King of Sweden and Nor.
way, Oscar II, is in his sixtieth
year, and has reigned for sixteen
year. He has favored some reforms
The King Of Portugal, Luis |, is
fifty years old, and is a man of en-
terprise and progress. He has been
for twenty-seven years King.
The power and authority of the
King of Spain, Alfonso XIII, who
is not yet two years old, is limited
by the regency of his mamma. He
never saw his royal sire.
The King of Greece, or King OF
the Helenes, Georges I, is forty
three years of age, and has been
King for a quarter of a century, OF
since he was eighteen, at which age
he was elected to the Hellenic
throne. He finds it hard job to
rule the modern Greeks or keep
their favor.
The Sovereign or Sultan Of Tur.
KEY, Abdul Hamid II, is forty-siz
years old, and succeeded to the
throne twelve years ago, when the
Majesty who preceded him was de-
posed. He is the twenty-eightt
Sultan since the conquest of Con
stantinople by the Turks.
The King of the Netherlands
William III, is the oldest monarch
in Europe, being now of the age o.
eeventy-one, and entered upon The
fortieth year of his reign last Sat
urday week, which was st. Patrick
day, though he is q scion of th'
royal house of Orange. Even il
Holland the old. monarch is merry
at times.
The King Of Roumania, Carol /
is forty-nine years of age and wal
proclaimed King only seven yearl
ago, but before that time he hae
been for fourteen years the DONNA
of his subjects.
The King of Servia, Milton l, i
thirty-four, and was Drowned onl,
six years ago, but before that h'
had held the throne for fourteen
wears by election as Prince Ailal
Obrenovic Nv. He is tho fourth Q
his dynasty since Servia threw Of
the Turkish yoke in 1920. Hi
predecessor was assassinated.
The reigning Prince of Montene
gro is Nicholas I, who is forty-sevel
years old, and has reigned for TWEEN