Evening star., 1898-08-20
SALARIES THAT KINGS GET.
vary From Twenty-Four Thousand
Dollars to Eight Dollars a Day.

Vary From Twenty-Four Thousand
dollars to Eight Dollars a Day.
From the New York Herald
"How much do a king gat?'' asked one of
Mark Twain's odd characters, and the an
swer was not very satisfactory If we ap-
ply the title king" to each of the chief ex-
ecutives of the great nations, there is no
wonder an answer was difficult, for tn, pay
of rulers varies greatly and is governed by
no apparent rule Of proportion, unless It is
that the pay increases with the liability to
assassination. The extremes of salary are
illustrated by the pay of the Gar of Russia
and the President of Switzerland The fer
mer gets $4,000 a day. while the latter is
happy and satisfied with s7.p2 each twenty
four hours. These figures arc baso1 on 'G:.
working days in the year. for Inc1a-clIs are
supposed to be always working.
NOW, these eXecutives-of Russia and
SWitzerland-are at the extremes Of the
rulers payroll, the first gettiu., sS.T6G 600 Il
extremes the ether eleven nations consider
CT are scattered in a haphNard manner
with no uniform relation between the
amount of yearly salary and the number of
persons who must pay it. The Emperor OF
Austria, with his s4,3SO, 900 annually, comes
under the Car of all the Russias while
President Mckinley, with his $4,000, comes
next above the President of little SwitZer-
isiiiu. faltSI fiuStfld COMES NIeTUldny, WHICH
pays Emperor William 81, 400, Geo; then the
King of Italy, with s., ,435, eco; Shah of Per
sla, 81 335.0 600; Queen Victoria. s1.S75, 900:
King of Belgium Sf32 600; King of Norway
and Sweden, 1000; Queen of the Neither
lands. 900; King of Greece sos, 900, and
the President Of France. S2390G0. presi-
dent Faure receives but little more regular
salary than President Mckinley. but he has
fixed perquisites that bring his income from
the state to the amount given.
The amounts of the salaries of thaSe hon
ofed men and women Dear very odd reIa-
tions to the number of persons for whose
heneht they are supposed to administer
laws of their own or the peoples making
Now each subject of the czar has to annu-
ally pay seven and four-fifths cents to his
ruler. and stands eighth on the list; while
the PerSlanS, each of whom must yearly
pay to the shah thirty and three-auarters
cents head it. Switzerland, with the small
est population and salary, does not pay the
least per capita, for the United States with
seven cne-hundredti1s of cent for each in
habitant, is at the bottom of the list Switz-
erland being neXt above, with eight one
hundredths of cent. Turkey, with twenty
cents for each subject. naturally comes next
below Persia, and Greece with eleven and
two-hfths cents, comes next. Then, in the
descending scale. come Austria. with ten
and two-fifths cents for each subject to pay
to the ruler: Belgium, ten and one-fifth
cents; Italy nine cents; Norway and Swe-
Gen. eight cents; then Russia, then Ger
iLdHy, SlA ana th"ee-E1thS cents, Holland
six and one-ffth; France six: Great Brit
ain, four and three-ffths, and then Switz-
erland and the United States.
Figures alone hardly convey to ordinary
mortals an idea of the amounts of some Of
these salaries. Take, for Instance the S.
10000 received annually by the car. Put
that amount in silver dollars, and perhaps
it will carry more of meaning. 1t would
mean 214 tons of silver, and if the dollars
were piled in a single column they would
alc5,A n
edge would extend 2G7 miles, one-half of the
distance from St Petersburg to Moscow
Put the annual salary of the President of
Switzerland into silver dollars place them
eige to edge in single line, and they
would reach over 3G2 feet; while President
Mckinleys yearly pay, treated in the same
manner, would form a silver band little
less than one mile and a fifth in length