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Show Small Salary for High Office. It may bo mwio comfort to laboring men to knov that tho snlary of the poet laureato of England Is 3G0 a year and a hogshead of wine thrown In. Of course, this represents only a fractional psrt of what Alfrod Austin really earns, still It ls nil tlint bo gcti for being poft lnureato to tbo Knglislt speaking raoe. This salary Is without any prospect f a raise, nlthough It wni Increased U Its present munificent pioportlons when Lord Tennyson died Some tlmo beforo his death It was do elded to Inoreaso his snlary to that amount, but the government did not decide till after his death. Thus the picsont poet laureato came In for tb ralso Intended for I-ord Tennyson. |