The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-22
INCOMES OF EUROPEAN M0NARCHs
The Gar of Russia Leads With
About $11,OOO,OOO.

| The remarks which we recently made
! in Modern Society concerning the prl-
Vate fortune landed estates and Specu-
| latiOn of the queen have caused no lit
| tie fiutter in court circles. where the &C
| curacy Of our information is recOgnlz-
| ed, says Modern Society. The truth is,
| that such a lot of nonsense is now writ
| ten on this subject before we took 1t up
! that the public is now in a complete
| fog. 1t was, for instance, said, some
! years ago, that the queen owned some
| zoe odd houses in various parts of Eng
| land, not royal residences, but rent
| yielding property, and that about 6,oed
| houses had been built by crown les
sees on building leaseholds held by the
queen This is sheer nonsense; that is,
| the figures are absolutely 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 to do so by
her beloved Macduff.
The income of her majesty is about
| 1886 900 per annum from the state, and
her private income is very nearly t260,-
600 per annun, making a nice total.
Her official salary cannot be said to be
enormous, when one takes into cOnSld-
Grafton the fact that she Is an empress
queen, rules over more people and
greater extent of country than any hui
man being has ever ruled over before,
and that the twopenny-halfpenny and
comparatively unimportant King Hum
bert of Italy is paid exactly the same
salary by his very impecunious sub
jects.
AS a matter OF fact, our queen gets
but little more than the French people
pay their president, M. Felix Faure,
who enjoys tee very pleasant little sal
ary. of f43S, GOO per annum. But COM
paratively little CT this is expended in
entertaining. though, Of course, ~
Faure will have been severely tapped
by the cars visit This year, and dodgers
at the Elysee palace (notably M. jules
Grevy) generally succeed in putting by
very nice "magot" It is. indeed, a
well-known fact that Marshal Macma-
hon, who was a poor man, managed TO
save the small fortune which alone en-
ahled his eldest boy, the present duke,
to form a royal alliance. And yet no
more honest man ever lived than Mac
mahon, only he saved; and the enter
tainments given at the Elysee while ne
was president were the reverse Of
sumptuous the tipple being the poorest
SiIlery and-rum punch!
Our misery and speculative friend,
Leopold, Of the Beljunls, receives, 1925
Geo per annum from his people, and his
private income is very nearly the same
iigure-that is, it ought to be, though
his unfortunate mucker- in Congo has
somewhat impoverished his majesty.
Many sovereigns get bigger pay than
does our queen-notabiy the car, the
sultan, the emperor of Austria and the
German kaiser. The young Russian en-
peror is popularity credited with having
salary which represents about f250
per hour Or fS,200,000 per annum But
this is pure phantasy. Far more than
that is paid into the imperial treasury,
and ''all the Russias" are supposed to
belong to him. 50 that. in one sense,
his income may be said to be an enor-
nous number Of millions sterling per
annuna. What Alexander III, his pa,
was given to spend was about $780,
| 00G Per annunl.
or course, if the car wants more he
car order il, but he would not get much
more, and it is absurd to imagine that
he is really so autccratic as he is sup-
posed to be-that is, that he can do
absolutely what he likes with his peo-
pie and their property. It is the mobiles
who govern Russia, not the czar.
Abdul tie Assassin, on the other
hand, is absolutely boss of his show,
and, this being the case. 1t is very