Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — Learning Trades. [ARTICLE]

Learning Trades.

Among German princes it has for ages been the custom that every one shall learn a handicraft. At the present time the throe sons of Prince Albrecht, Rogent of Brunswick, are all hard at work at Kamonz, the two elder ones as budding bricklayers, €nd the youngest as a would-be cabinet maker. They are engaged in tho building of a small house, and their fathor, tho Prince Regent, goes over every other day or so, to note his boys’ progress, and to criticise and encourage them. The late Prince Consort, tho present German Emperor, the Emperor Frederick and tho Battonburg princes were similarly brought up to various trades. Prince Louis of Battenborg, who is a commander in the English Royal Navy, served his apprenticeship as a printer, and now, when ho is on half pay or on leave, often practices his art. Not long ago he put in typo a history of H. M. S. Dreadnaught, of which he was for a time executive officer, and, when ho loft the ironclad, presented copies to his late shipmates. The old Emperor William was a bookbinder, anil sovoral books of his binding arc to-day preserved in the royal library at Potsdam. A Sitting Duck Wallctl In by Does. A couple of days ago, at tho farm of G. W. Hutchins, seven miles from Marysville, a bee tree was found near the oast bank of Feathor River, whioh was out to obtain the honey. After the treo was out down to the ground an investigation was instituted and tho honey located in a hollow .half way between whoro it was cut aud tho top. On cutting open tho body of the tree they securod about eighty pounds of honey, eleven duck eggs and a dead duck. It appears that a wgoil duck had formed a cavity through a hole that was originally largo enough to admit lor body. Astor laying eleven eggs she had commenced sitting to hatch them, and while doing so the boos had tilled tho hole witli comb so that she could not got out, and sho died on tho nest.—Pod Bluff Democrat.