Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Expenses of Royalty. [ARTICLE]

Expenses of Royalty.

The Queen of England is allowed in one form or another the sum of *1,929,000 annually. The Prince ol Wales receives *200,000, his Princess *50,000. Prince Albert Victor receives *50,000; the Crown Princess of Russia, *40,000; the Duke of Edinburgh, *125.000; the Princess Christian, $30,000; the Duke of Connaught, •125;000, and the numerous others various sums, the grand total reaching the enormous sum of *2,834,000. A good story, even when the same man continues to repeat it, has a tendency to grow like a rolling Snowball. An instance is furnished by a German paper. “So our friend Bushier went to the top of Mont Blanc?” said one man to another. “Not at all.” “But he said so.” “True. Two months ago, when he returned from Switzerland, he said he had been at the foot of Mopl Blanc. Since then he has gradualli lied himself to the top. ”