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those of some of our senatorial parve
nues. to see if an obscure person got in
but the br:izen and cunning and these
made prosperous by low ways were turn
ed back when the lists were scanned
She liked the Germans because they
were Of her lineage. the Americans be-
cause they were Of her race. and sine be
Hiended the French empress VIXEN she
had nothing ambitious to hope for
victoria's reign has been great in her
subjects. in Besse:nar. Enlwer Foley
Far;.tlay. Darwin. Tennyson. .,:,@stan,,s
above u galaxy Of great gentleman like
their tutelar saint Her Kingdom has
hat! uncza::,pled prosperity. an;l she had
been opposed to war.
We are to mention that Victoria never
w;;s l.or:l to the crown and never WAS
married. to ii king.
Rcr father was a ruined younger SOD
of a king: her husband the younger sou
of poor German duke The vices ot
her uncles eln,,tied the throne of good ln,s
terity aud let her up. She married t,e
fore she was spoiled, and her husband
was her own cousin. How many private
lives are there demul and acquicscent'
She has proved that ''the meek shall in
herit the earth"
The woman who paid her deceased
fathers debts in a spirit of honor he did
not have became empress of 800. 600, 900
of the Oldest people and princes in the
world.
Had Victoria disdained her friend Leo
pold's advice to marry his nephew Al,
bert, the perils and batteries of court so.
ciety might have made her another Eliz.
abeth, but she hearkened to advice and
blessed the poor young man with her
hand and awoke to the blessings Of na-
tdre in smiling babes and the dignity OF
q large motherhood. Eugenie with one
babe mourns his barbarous death. Queen
Isabella of Spain loses her crown and is
an exile from her son. Victoria, nodded
by the hand of love and husbandry, sur
vived every contemporary of her corona
ton and takes precedence Of the women
of all the world. Three queens" say
the English. Elizabeth, Anne. Victoria.
have given US our greatest reigns."
It is high treason in the queen to be
unchaste. She would be tried by the
peers. She pays no toll, is relieved from
amercement in any court. Her husband
however, does not commit high treason
If Ypfaithful
Victoria surrendered at the commence
ment of her reign her hereditary revenue.
for the sum Of nearly 81 900, 600 per an.
mum. OF this her purse received direct
$3OO, 700, her house and household g..
10000; for aims, the court, etc.. the re-
mainder. Her probable personal income
was $50O,OOO year clear, 10 times oul
presidents, not including her own prop
erty. The Prince Of Wales receives
t2OO, 1000, his wife $5O,OOO, and each Of
the family liberal provision. Pensions
of $4,000 year she was allowed to give
amounted in 1899 to $125. 900. She there
fore handled $2,050. 900 a year. Vic
toria's refusal to change the official Ia.
dies Of the bedchamber in 1889 led to thu
prolongation of Melbourne's ministry till
1841, covering the period Of Victoria'l
courtship and marriage.
Victoria lost by death in 1878 her
daughter, Alice of Hesse; the Duke oi
Albany. Leopold, In 1881, and the Duke
of Clarence, her grandson. She had
IS administrators or premiers-Mel.
bourne, Peel, Russell twice: Derby three
times; Aberdeen, Palmerston twice; Dis.
raeli twice; Gladstone four times; Sails.
bury twice. She was called "the most
constitutional monarch England has ever
seen.'
The Prince of Wales has visited the
United States. the Holy Land and India
was field marshal of the army and grand
master of the Masons. His wife at ont
time did her parents housekeeping, even
to cooking, it was said. Baron Stock.
man and Leopold projected Abert's great
marriage. His salary was $15O, 900, cut
down $100, 900 by the Tories. He always
believed that Prussia should be supreme
in Germany.
When the queen came to her kingdom,
it had about %, 600 900 people; when she
died it had near 1000, ,0O0-less than
l50, 900 foreigners In her colonies were
some 220, 900 900. The revenues for the
state were $450, ,000. 900.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND.