Show EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNS Many Past TO Yet Still Ruling With the Power of Youth i The Almanach de Gotha for 1S94 has buried in its numerous finely printed pages some interesting facts as to the ages of European sovereigns The oldest old-est of all is the pope who is In his 84th year Next comes the grand duke of little Luxemburg who is 76 The King of Denmark and the Grand Duke of SaxeWeimar are 75 Queen Victoria and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz 74 There are six other sovereigns sov-ereigns who are older than 70 eleven who are between 60 and 70 and five who are between 50 and 60 V Eleven are between 40 and 50 two between 30 and 40 and two more between 20 and 30 The youngest three sovereigns are King Alexander of Servia 17 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands 13 and King Alfonso Xin of Spain Ifa V Queen Victoria has had the longest reign fiftysix and onhalf years EmperOr Em-perOr Franz Josef has reigned forty five years the Grand Duke Baden fortyone years the Grand Dukes of Oldenburg of SaxeWeimarEisenach and of SaxeAltenburg forty years each Fourteen of the sovereigns of Europe have reigned fewer than ten years During 1893 three new sovereigns sov-ereigns ascended the throne They are Prince George of SchaumburgLIppe Prince Frederick of Waldeck and Duke Alfred of ttoburg better known as the Duke of Edinburgh New York Stir I V |