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Show TO HAVE A KING IS VERY COSTLY Pcoplo of Bavaria Will Pay Ludwig $1,500,000 a Year to Rulo Thom. BBRLIN. Dec. 6. The Bavarian people will pay well for tho luxury of being ruled by a real king, under tho twonty-sovon year regency whloh has Just como to an end, they paid Ludwlg, as prime regent, $S5,000 a year: as king ho will cost them ?1,G00.000 every twolvo monthB. This sum Includes certain comfortable allowances to the new klng'B sons and daughters, who up to the present tlmo havo received nothing from tho public troasury. Now Crown Prince Rupprecht will get !9S,500 a year; Prince Franz, brother-in-law of tho now Amorican Duchess of Croy. who was Miss Nancy Lclshman, gets $3-1,000; Prince Karl, who Is unmarried, $28,000, and tho flvo princesses, prin-cesses, Adelgrundo, Hlldegardo, Wlltrud, Hclmtrudls and Gundelindo, J6,300 each-Other each-Other expenses upon the new civil Hot bring the total cost of maintaining the royal family, exclualvo of tho amount spent on tho Insane King Otto, to ?1,-716,34, ?1,-716,34, or about 25 cents por head of the Bavarian population por yir. Prussians havo to pay por capita for tholr royalty only half as much. The Incomes of tho new royalties will bo supplemented by tho revenues from the private fortunes of the Wlttelsbach house, which, In spite of tho great sums spent by the mad Kline Ludwlg H-In H-In cnstlo and theater building and In boautlfylng tho city of Munich, are 3tlll Immense. |