Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — Over-Trained Princes. [ARTICLE]

Over-Trained Princes.

Young princes and princesses must find it irksome to be under tutors, as most of them are, who have never learned the wisdom uttered in the nursery line, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” It is said that Louis 11., the present King of Bavaria, took an utter disgust in his boyhood to history and pol- j it cs, through the indiscreet zeal of a professor who discoursed on these subjects in season and out of season. He would i-ay, pointing to a haystack, “Can you guess wliat is the height of that?” “Thirty feet,” perhaps the boy would answer. “Well, does the number thirty remind you of anything ? Were there not thirty knights on both sides at the 'Combat des Trento’ ? Were there not thirty tyrants at Athens? Was there i not a ‘Thirty Years’War?’” And so ! on till poor little Prince Louis lost all pleasure in the sight of hay staoks. Napol on lll.’s heir was also sorely teased by a couple of too-earnest tutors. One day he had be n sent out to see a regatta on the Seine. “Well, what have you been doing?” asked his father when he returned home. “Oh, we have been talking of triremes,” said the boy, wearily, “and I have heard the story of Dniiius over again.— Youths' Companion. It is a standing joke in Italy that Salvini carries about with him the King’s pardon, to be used in case his 1 realism on the stage should carry him : to the point of an actual smothering of I some" Desdemona.