Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1892 — A German Schoolmaster. [ARTICLE]

A German Schoolmaster.

After teaching school for fifty-one years Johann Jacob Haberle, of Germany, died some years ago, and his dai”y has just been published, in which the punishments he administered are all noted down. He gave 911,517 strokes with the stick, 240,100 “smites” with a birch-rod> 10,986 hits with a ruler, 136,715 hand smacks, 10,235 slaps on the face, 7,905 boxes on the ears, 115,800 blows on the head, 12,763 tasks from the Bible, catechism, the poets, and grammar—every two years he had to buy a Bible to replace the one so roughly handled by his scholars—777 times he made his pupils kneel on peas, and 5,001 scholars had to do penance with a ruler held over their heads. As to his abusive words, not a third of them were to be found ic any dictionary. *