Show swiss nobility A few years ago the question was asked does nobility still exist in switzerland and no one was able to answer it of all the thousand of english folk who haunt the swiss hotels in summer not one it would seem had inquired whether that rudolph yon von erlach whose equestrian statue they must have seen been has any living dencen cants not one had ever heard of the barnese nobility a noblesse which holds itself so high hi 0 h that it thinks but slightly of the british legation yet from the jura to the lugano there is hardly a canton there is perhaps no canton in which noble families are not to be found some of these such as the and the bools of the Gra bunden have turned their energy into modem channels and make their fortunes like the haulers or the sellers out of the english and the american tourists others like the von allmen have sunk into a humbler rank but the greater part remain in statu quo still enjoying in the towns or in the country a social prestige that varies with their wealth and their in intelligence telli gence temple bar I 1 |