The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-02
INCOMES OF MoNARCHs.
The Car of Russia Leads With About
S11 200, 900.

uc SZttT OIL nuSSll w ltn ABOUT
$11,000,0 900.
The remarks which we recently made
in Modern Society concerning the private
fortune, landed estates and speculation
of the queen have caused no little flutter
i'll court circles, where the accuracy of
our information is recognized The truth
is, that such IL lot of nonsense IS now
written on this subject before we took it
up that the public is now in IL complete
fog. 1t was for instance said some years
ago that the queen owned some 600 odd
houses in various parts of England, not
royal residences, but rent yielding prom
crty, and that about 5000 houses had
been built by crown lessecs on building
leaseholds held by the queen This is
sheer nonsense; that is the figures are alb
solutely incorrect. Her majesty owns
nothing like so many houses, and, in
fact, she is following the general craze
and selling her bricks and mortar fast;
advised SO to do by her beloved Mactluff
The income of her majesty is about
$3.50, 900 per annum from the state, and
her private income is very nearly e260,-
GOO per annum, making a nice total. Her
official salary cannot be said to he enor-
nous, when one takes into consideration
the fact that she is IN cmpress.uueen
rules over more people ana greater eX-
tent OF country than any human being
has ever ruled before, and that the two
penny half penny, and comparatively un.
important King ITumhert. of Italy, is
paid exactly the same salary by his very
impecunious subjects
A matter of fact our queen gets but
little more than the French people nav
their present NJ Felix Faure, who enjoys
the very pleasant little salary of CABS, 900
per annum. But comparatively little of
this is expended in entertaining, though,
of course, NJ. Faure will have been Sc
vcrc!y tapped by the cZar's visit this
year, and the dodgers ut the Elysec Palace
(notably NJ. Jules Grevy) generally sue
ceed in putting by IL very nice ''magnot .
1t is, indeed, IL wcll.known fact that
Marshal Mcmahon, who was II poor man,
managed to save the small fortune which
alone enabled his eldest boy, the present
duke, to form II royal alliance. And yet
no more honest man ever lived than Nc
Mahon, only he saved: and the entertain
ment given at the Eysec while he was
president was reverse of sump1uous, the
tipple being the poorest Sillery and-rum
punch.
Our miscry and speculative friend,
Leopold, OF the Belgiums, receives el2G,-
OO0 per annnm from his people, and his
private income is very nearly the same
figure-that is, it ought to be, though
his unfortunate mucker in Congo has
somewhat impoverished his majesty.
Many sovercigns get bigger pay than
does orr queen-notably the car, the
sultan, the emperor Of Austria, and the
German kaiser. The young Russian en-
peror is popularity credited with having Il
salary which represents about e250 per
hour, or e., POO, 600 per annum. But this
: DIIrp nhnutnSV moro than that l..
paid into the imperial treasury, and 'all
the Russas' are supposed to belong to
him, so that IN one sense, his income
may be said to be enormous number of
millions sterling per anmim. What
Alexander III. his pa, was given to spend
was about Il 500, 600 per annum.
OF course, if the car wants more he
can order it, but he would not get much
more, and it is absurd to imagine that he
is really so autocratic as he is supposed
to be-that is: that he can do absolutely
what he likes with his people and their
properties. 1t is the mobiles who govern
Russia, not the czar
Abdul, the Assassin, on the other
hand, is absolutely boss of his show, and,
this being the ease, it is very good of
him to content himself with merely e110
per hour, or 81 AGO, 600 per'annum. This
year murder will have brought him into
quite another 100000 The emperor of
Austria is enormously rich, for he has a
large private fortune, is very frugal, and
the state gives him e9l2 500 per annum,
or 800 per hour. The offensive nonen-
titv, the kaiser, has not IL large private
fortune. but pockets from his unfortu-
nate subjects e130,000, or coo per hour
for making simpleton of himself. -
London Modern Society.