WEIGHT-LIFTING PRINCE.
-CARMEN SYLVIA'S SKETCH OF HER NEPHEW, . Tlio Queen of Rumania—"Carmen Sylvia," tlie poetess—prints a character sketch of her nephew, Prince William" of' .Wic'd, who is' to Ire. the ruler of tlio now kingdom of Albania, in a Vienna paper. ' . .. Tito Prince,. sho says, is a..direct descendant 'of William the Silent .of Orange. "As a child wo never saw him without a hook in his hand, holding it open with his finger to' keep tlio place while he Walked. .In spito.of this shi- . dious tendency ho. also boasted great physical strength, and in the' Grammar Sehool at Jena he was'the loader of the. class jit drilling mad gymnastics, and ; rnaiiy' tales of his prowess aro related by liis schoolfellows. The Princo was ablo to lift any of them with one hand, and'would place them on a high'shelf when they annoyed liira, reaching up as if the hoy in his hand were merely a trifling weight." . _
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1975, 4 February 1914, Page 10
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156WEIGHT-LIFTING PRINCE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1975, 4 February 1914, Page 10
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