Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1890 — EUROPE’S RICHEST MAW. [ARTICLE]

EUROPE’S RICHEST MAW.

Heir of the Caesars and His Simple Ways of Life. Pittsburg Press. The Emperer of Austria is much less talked of nowadays than the young Kaiser of Northern German land, but he is one of the most noticeable figures in the great pan ora of European, royalty. ■r He is often said to be the richest man in Europe and certainly the Hapsburg family is one of the wealthiest, as well as one of the oldest, in the world. 2 ■ in charity he is munificent. Only the other day he gave a sum equal to -500,000 from his private purse for the relief of the sufferers from the recent Inundations. His many trials have made him a quiet, reserved, intensely laborious, manly man. He has a tender heart, and dreads the infliction of the least pain on any of his subjects. The Emperor is strongly opposed to capital punishment. He was called upon the other day to sign a death warrant, and began signing his name, but a tear falling on the ink blotted the letters, and he turned to the minister in attendance, saying: “See, my tears obliterate my name. I cannot signit.” And he tore it up. When he went to meet Emperor William at Rohnstock the other day he was observed of all observers., Dressed in a splendid Prussian uni - form he looked a grand seigneur in the highest sense of the term. The two Emperors are very fond of all modern inventions, and have filled their palaces with electric lights, telephones and other inventions. While they were at Rohnstock they were enabled to listen, through the telephone, especially installed for them, to the opera of “Carmen,” performed on the sta.%) of the Berlin Opera House. 277 miles away. Rohnstock, the scene of this meeting stands on the confines of the province which Prussian Frederick the Great stole from Austrian Maria Theresa. But neither of the Emperors appear to have been at all distressed by any rembrance of this historic wrong. The Emperor es Austria lives very pimply in his grand old palace of the Hos burg, in Vienna. At ceremonials he can be very" grand, but hols happi? - est when seated at his work-table in his private study? with one of the long Virginia cigars, of which both he and 1 King Humbert of Italy are very fond. He is extremely sober in meat and drink, laborious in everything pertaining to state affairs and sincerely ambitious of political eminence for his country. His great sorrows have left deep marks upon his face, but in court dress he is still a dazzling figure. As a sportsman he is still able to hold his own with the youngest member of his court.