Show THE CURIOSITY SHOP Salaries of Presidents and Sovereigns I i Princely and Modest Incomes h The sole income of tho president of the United States from tho public treasury is hiss his-s ary of 50000 a year Experience has IL i shown that tile present sum is large enough to cover tho eiuensej of tbs < inns 1 t p households and to leave a comfortable balance lance l-ance in the purse of A presidential family of moderate ideas Yt t there 4s not another magistrate at the head of any people exceeding exceed-ing tho number of 10000000 who does not receive a larger salary than the august potent and toiling president of tho United States The shah of Persia who has nothing to do except to boss several hundred wives is in the enjoyment of an income of 30000 000 a year Then there is the czar of Russia whose chief duty is tokeep from being blown up He is paid something like 10000000 yearly The dignified king of Slam gets along on a like sum Tho royal family of poor miserable Spain receive 3900000 every year and Italians sleep out of doors and eat nothing but mac caroni to mako up a purse of 3000000 and more for their royalties Such figures as these console the British people somewhat for their annual outlay under specific laws of 2015000 on Victoria and her brood to say nothing indirect extortions and perquisites That reformed pirate of the seas the sultan sul-tan of Morocco is slightly compensated for his self denial by an annual allowance of 2 500000 and the mikado of Japan receives 2300000 Tho impotent royalty of Egypt draws 1575000 from tho substance of that tax ridden land while tho Hobenzollerns content themselves with a yearly tribute of 1123000 from the Prussian empire Even the sultan of cotton clouted Zanzibar pockets 81000000 a year and 700000 are wrung from the Saxons Saxony no more consid crablo a community than Illinois in population popula-tion or Massachusetts in geographical area by the reigning duke and his purpled gang Portugal Sweden cud Brazil each spend about 000000 on their kings With fewer people than live in some New York wards and with only twothirds of Rhode Islands area tho petty princelings of SchwarzburgSoudershausen are paid fclSQ 000 On tho other hand the republic of Franco allows her chief magistrate only 200000 but naked little Hayti gives her presidential crowd 240000 a year Switzerlands president presi-dent comes tho lowest of all tho nations of tho earth His salary is 3000 a year The wholly useless governor general of Canada receives 50000 and so also does tho governor general of Victoria while the like functionary function-ary in India has 200000 |