The Hartford Herald

Sovereigns of Europe.

Sunday May 24, was the seventy-seventh anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria, the oldest female sovereign who ever sat on the throne of England. The Queen is afflicted with rheumatism or gout, but her doctors take the best of care of her health, so that she may yet have years of life.

The oldest King in Europe is Christian IX, of Denmark, who last month entered upon the seventy-ninth year of his age. He has worn the crown for thirty-three years.

The King of Sweden and Norway, Oscar II., is in the sixty-seventh year of his age, and has wielded the sceptre since the year 1872.

The Emperor of Austria, Francis Joseph I., will be sixty-six years old in August next, and he has sat on his throne for forty-eight years.

The King of the Belgians, Leopold II., is in the sixty-second year of his age, and in the thirty-first year of his reign.

The King of Saxony is in his sixty-ninth year.

The King of Italy, Humbert I., is in the fifty-third year of his life, and in the seventeenth year of his reign.

The King of the Hellenes, George I., is fifty-one years old, and has ruled Greece for thirty-three years.

The Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II, is fifty-four, and has been the ruler of the Turkish empire for twenty years.

The King of Roumania, Charles I., is in the fifty-eighth year of his age.

These are the more elderly of the imperial or royal sovereigns of Europe.

Among the younger European sovereigns are the Emperor of Germany, 37; the King of Portugal, 33; the Czar of Russia, 28; the King of Servia, 20; the Queen of the Netherlands, 17, and the King of Spain, 10. In the Netherlands there is a queen regent, and also in Spain. Pope Leo XIII., who is not a temporal ruler, is in the eighty-seventh year of his age, born March 2, 1810.