Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1890 — The stupid Teacher. [ARTICLE]

The stupid Teacher.

Perhaps the most difficult school teacher to deal with is the fttupid one, who knows nothing outside of text books. A boy, attending one of our public schools, came home the other day, humming a school song. The tune attracted his father’s attention, and he asked the boy to sing- the ' shbg. He did so. It was a rollicking sailor, song, and in the choriift the boy saDg, “We’ll fill our bowls and eat the toafet.”’ At this point the father stopped him and asked where he had learned the, song. The boy replied that he had learned it at school* “Joriceknew that song,” said the father, “but I never knew it ran ‘We’ll fill our bowls and eat the toast,’” “It isn’t printed that way,” said the bpy, “but, the teacher said she never heard of anybody’s drinking toast,, so she made us scratch out ‘drink,’ aacLsihg it |eat. ’ ”

There are SOOjQQQ' people that walk about the streets of London.daily, and in so doing they wear away- a ton of leather particles from their boots and shoes. This would, in a year, form a leather belt six inches; .wide and onefourth of au inch thiok, long enough tc reach from London to New lork.