The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20
:MN MISCELLANEOUS.
-Teacher-''Why is tongue a noun?''
Pupil-"Because it is part of speech"

Pupil-"Because it is a part of speech. :"
Sacrificing Everything to Art
Humble Citizen-"See here, barber;
you've cut off piece of my ear" Ton
serial Artist-"Yes; they seemed to me
trifle large. Boston Courier.
-Judge-"You are accused of not
supporting your wife" Prisoner-"B
your honor, you don't know my wife.
She is insupporta BILE. boston Tran
script
An Ardent Lover -Mamie-'Papa,
don't you think George is an ardent
lover?" Pap Yes, my dear, he is an
ardent lover-a lover of the ardent, and
/ think you had better give him the
mitten without delay.-Yanl1ee Blade.
According to recent report drawn
up by the United States consulate at
Lyons, France consumes about 9,S1S, 900
pounds of raw silk per annum, the value
of which is estimated at from 910, 000,-
900 to 912 O4O, 900. If the value of the
wool, cotton and other materials used
in mixed fabrics be aeded, the total
value of the raw materials used in the
French silk industry amounts to &c.
900, 000
Just as Great Britain is figuring on
the probable exhaustion of her coal
fields, discoveries of immense supplies
of that fuel are being made in Alaska
Capt, Miner, of the schooner Henry
Dennis, brought to Seattle few days
ago some specimens of excellent coal
from Unger Island, in the Shumagin
group, Alaska. The coal is similar to
camel coal, and is pronounced to be of
frst-class quality.
"A remarkably beautiful bust of
George Washington, executed in china
by Wedgewood, has been on exhibition
in Chicago. There were seven or eight
of these busts executed originally, but
the whereabouts of only two is known
at present. These two were owned in
London until recently, when the one
now in Chicago came into the posses
sion of Mr.. T. A. Van Laun. 1t is
valued at $4,000.
1t was an old tradition on the east
err shore of MARYLAND that slaves
should have a half holiday on Saturday,
and that only absolutely necessary
work should be done in Christmas week.
The custom spread to the whites, and
it was not discontinued by the blacks
after they were freed. The consequence
is that thousands are idle on Saturday
afternoon. and the Christmas festivities
last all through the week between
Christmas and New Years.
The movement to bring colony
favor by the people of the latter coun-
try, though there seems to be some
doubt whether the effort will be
crowned with success. Ludwig Won
Dolcke, an Icelander, who has been
practising medicine in Detroit for year
or two has conceived the idea of taking
the entire population of Iceland to
Alaska, and he has gone to his native
country to start an agitation of the sub
ject.
"A neat story about a sow and its
offspring comes from Oxford, Mass
Joseph Stevens, a farmer near that
place, has a sow and four well-grown
pigs. They all run in an apple orchard,
the trees of which have limbs that hang
rather low. The SOW likes apples, and
so do the pigs. 1t is amusing to see
the sow spring up and seize a low hang
ing limb, and shake down the fruit, the
little ones rapidly devouring them.
When the SOW spies some tempting ap-
Piles on a limb just beyond her reach,
one of the little pigs mounts on her
mothers back, and clinging to her with
her hind legs, clutches the limb with
her fore feet and shakes down the COW
eted fruit.
The last resting place of two IA
nous Indian chiefs-Black Hawk and
Pontiac-have become topic ofinterest
in the western newspapers. Pontiac's
bones are believed to lie very nearly
beneath the site of the Southern Hotel
in st. Louis, having been inferred there
in 1869, just after his assassination by
an Indian spy and five years after the
founding of st. Louis by Laclede. The
skeleton of Black Hawk, it is thought,
lies in an unmarked grave in the potter
field of Aspen Grove, Ia. Black Hawk
was originally buried in Davis county,
but his grave was robbed and his bones
boiled and vanished, after which they
became the property successfully of a
governor, doctor and later of the doc
tors surviving partner.-N. Y. World.