Poor Pay

The old proverb " as happy as a king, s not so very inoonsistent after all, if Te view it in this one light ; to have money is to be happy. Kegarded from pecuniary stand-point, royalty is unoubtedly the best business going. The alarias of emporors and kings are for he most part liberal, and no deduction s uiade on account of absence from du;y. The Czar oí' Russia has the most jrofitable berth, his wages averaging 25,000 per day - as 365 times as much s the President of the ü. S. The Sul,an of Turkey, by being " economical, truggles along on $18,000 per day. low he can do it with his large faniiy and the evidently onormous military )ill, it is not easy to understand. Louis Napoleon (the late Emperor of Trance), lost a place that paid him $14-, 000 per day ; but he was prmdent and saved up soinething handsome, which would have kept him comfortable in his old age, and even enable him to attempt another coup d'etat. What the pay of the Emperor William of Germany may be, we don't know, but as the King of Prussia, he was paid only $8,210 per day. Víctor Emmanuel is a good manager, and keeps the pot boiling on about $6,250 a day. The Prince of Wales finds $1,450 per day unequal to his expenses. Who can blame him for having debts ? Some time ago a man named Neild left Queen Victoria $1,850,000, doubtless because he thought that she might some day be in need. Nevertheless the parliament was asked, last year, to pay the debts of her son. It is belleved that she will die richer than any other sovereign of Europe. In contrast to thase magnifioent figures, whioh, however, include the respective civil list, it may be interesting to know that the average income oi 9,000,000 of people in Great Britain is less than 50cts per day ; 18,000,000 live on 25 cents per day. If we apply these figures to France or to Germany, we find the average somewhat lower, in the game proportion to the number of the mhabitants of these coun tries.