Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — Scholastic Item. [ARTICLE]

Scholastic Item.

The mdei overworked, and at the same time the most poorly paid man in the world, is the German schoolteacher. His salary is barely sufficient to prevent his body and soul from drifting apart. One day last summer a fat beerbrewer happened to be bathing in a stream, when "he perceived the emaciated form of the village pedagogue.The brewer asked the wielder of the rod why he did not lave his person in the pellucid waves. “Because my salary does not allow me' to indulge in such extravagance,” was the reply. “It don’t cost you any mord to bathe,” responded the brewer. * “Oh, yes, it does. After bathing I am afflicted with such a ravenous appetite that my month’s salary only lasts me two weeks. No, bathing is for rich people.”— Texas Siftings.