Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1878 — Imperial Incomes in Germany. [ARTICLE]

Imperial Incomes in Germany.

Tho Berliners complain of the stinginess of the Imperial Crown Prince and Princess of Germany, and are specially hard on the latter. They accuse her of making a purse for her younger children, as if that were a crime, and tell how, at the seaside last year, she was content to tako half a house. As a matter of fact, their Highnesses are compelled to exercise the strictest economy, and it is immensely to their credit that they are able to make ends meet on resources so limited. People who sympathize with the Prince of Wales by reason of his restricted income may be surprised to learn that the “appanage”—that is, the allowance from the State to the Imperial Crown Prince—is just £7,500 a year. The Crown Princess lias from England an income of £6,000 a year, and the interest on her dowry of £30,000, say £1,500 a year more. So the income of the couple is a bare £15,000 a year, plus the little Sehloss in Unter tier Linden and the villa at Potsdam rent free, as also the right to give a certain number of dinners annually in the “ White Sehloss” at the charges of the Emperor. That illustrious monarch has a civil list of about £600,000 per annum, and a private income from landed property of about £260,000 per annum more. He, however, makes nb allowance to his son, tho Crown Prince. The old gentleman does not believe in allowances. He is not stingy; Fritz can have what he wants if he likes to ask for it; only lie must ask. Fritz has a spirit of his own, and for many years after his marriage the modest menage of the heir apparent was maintained without indenting on the parental funds; but of late years the expense entailed by an increasing family has forced the Crown Prince to ask subsidies from his father. It is not generally known in this country that no Prince of the Prussian blood-royal draws the pay of any office he may hold in the State, whether civil, military or naval. Pluracies in the Imperial family arc only honorary pluracies. London World. —Thirty-odd years ago a child was born in a Welsh Poor-House. A few days ago the charity-boy, since the hero of many strange adventures and vicissitudes, dined with the Prince of Wales and received an ovation from the Koyal Geographical Society. Was there ever any wilder romance than the life of Stanley? “ It is announced that the Indian famine fund collected in England reaches the fine total of £500,000, or $2,500,000. This is the largest collection which |ias been raised since the patriotic fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the soldiers and sailors in the Crimean War.