Salt Lake Times | 1890-06-13 | Page 4 | Doing of Royalty

DOIMU OV KOYAUTV. The Queen of England now copyrights all official government publications, and gives notice she will maintain her rights therein. King Charles of Rouinania has a salary sal-ary of $300,000 a year. He is 51 years of age, and military affairs absorb his attention most of the time. King Humbert of Italy receives at least forty prescriptions a week for dyspepsia. dys-pepsia. Some of them come from the most remote quarters of the earth. Queen Emma, the royal consort of the king of Holland, transacts all state business, busi-ness, for the king is really an imbecile, and his death may occur at any moment. Dom Pedro, the ex-emperor "of Brazil, is writing a paper on the language of the Tupi race, the principal Indian tribe of Brazil, for a German scientific journal. "I own 20,000 hectares of forest," said Prince Bismarck to Jules Simon, "and I plant more trees than I cut down." Bismarck is never so happy as when he is tree planting. Emperor William is reported to have purchased the private diaries of the late Emperor Frederick from Frau Krus, widow of the former major domo of that sovereign, paying her a large annuity for life. A servant of the queen of the Relgians was lately stricken with apoplexy. The first aid that some queens would have thought of would have been an aid-decamp to fetch a doctor, but she turned in and doctored the servant herself.