Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1887 — A King’s Son Turned Carpenter. [ARTICLE]

A King’s Son Turned Carpenter.

An Altona newspaper publishes the interesting intelligence that a son of King Bell of Cameroon, Alfred Bell, has been apprenticed to a carpenter of that town, along with three other dusky Africans. The youth is 16 years old, and is said to be very intelligent, reading and writing fairly well and speaking English and German. The Altona carpenter had sent oat an artisan to Cameroon to superintend the erection of the government building and prison, which he had built in wood for the colony, and thus it was that King Bell got the desire to make a carpenter out of his son, who is bound for four years. It is noticeable how many foreigners go to Germany nowadays for the purpose of learning trades. Japanese especially are engaged in large numbers in Berlin, and they have the character of being very intelligent, industrious, and quick of comprehension.—Pall Mall Gazette. It is stated that forty-three persons are employed in Queen Victoria’s kitchen. No wonder there is dyspepsia in the royal family.