Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1888 — Kings No Longer Tyrants. [ARTICLE]

Kings No Longer Tyrants.

An anecdote told of the young Prince of Italy shows that the bringing up of kings requires lessons in democracy. One day when the Prince was playing with the daughter of one of the ladies of honor, he got into a quarrel with her, and at last said in a most autocratic tone: “Now, then, I’m going to cut your head off." The little girl commenced to cry, and the King, who chanced to be passing, on learning what had happened, had his son placed in close confinement for fifteen days, in order to impress him with the fact that nowadays kings may no longer decapitate their subjects, as in “the good old days of yore.”— Exchange. 1 Teacher Correct the sentence: “The liquor which the man bought was drank.” Small boy—“ The man which bought the liquor was drunk.”—Harvard Lampoon,