Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-05

Der. The total product of all the fac
tories during the last year was 900, o54
pounds of cheese, the average price re-
ceived being twelve and a half cents per
pound.
Philologists say that the "Eenty, meen-
ty, NINETY. mo, +" and "Eny, meeny, mony,
mike" which children use for counting in
some of their games, and which are COM
monty considered gibberish, are in reality
the sole survival of the language spoken
by the earliest inhabitants of the British
Isles.
The Lord Chancellor OF England once
audibly muttering ''Nonsensel NONSENSE
to one of Mr.. Benjamin's arguments, the
latter gentleman bundled up his papers
and marched out of court in dudgeon
Owing to the interruption of business thus
caused the Lord Chancellor felt Obliged to
send a handsome apology, but Mr.. Ben
jamin declined to receive it.
A Lenten amusement in Paris has been
dancing lesson parties, where the young
girls meet at each others houses, and
under the guidance of a professor learn
and practice the minuet and gardette.
Short round skirts are ''de riguer," While
the costumes are made closely to initiate
those worn when Vestris introduced these
graceful dances at the French court.
The body of the beautiful Duchess de
Chaulnes was carried by night to fu-
neral vault in a wagon, her children's
guardian fearing an explosion of pity
from the pOpulace. The catafalque at the
grand Obsequies was empty, and near it,
among others, as counsel for her children,
stood Maitre BetOland, who at the trial
did not leave her one shred of reputation.
A Swede once laid a wager that he
would go down one of the almost perpen-'
dicular ladders in a Lake Superior iron
mine. face foremost. with a can of nitro
glvcerine in his hand. Not only did he
do it. but a crowd of his fellow miners
gathered to witness the feat, although one
false step would have been certain death
to the reckless fellow, and half the lockers
on might also have been killed.
Eleven thousand newspapers and peri
odicals are published in the United States.
New York has the largest number of any
State, VIZ: 1,411, and next comes IllinOis
with LOTT. Pennsylvania ranks third with
973, and afterwards, in order, are ONO,
Iowa and Missouri. Six hundred and forty
of these papers are published in German,
fOrty-nine in Danish and Scandinavian,
and fOrty-One in French. There are five
Welsh papers, three Chinese, three In
dian and one in Irish.
A dog owned in Portland, Me-, has quite
fancy for travelling. When the freak
takes hin. he goes aboard the Boston boat
and makes a quiet trip of 1j0miles by sea.
When the boat reaches Boston he disap-
pears in the crowd, but never fails to re-
turn and make the hOmeward trip at
night. No one knows where he spends the
day after leaving the boat nor how he
manages to keep posted on the boats de-
parture, which is two hours earlier IN
winter than in summer, but he never gets
left.
In April, 1880, Miss Anna L. Hoffman,
of New Albany, Ind, was run over by
railroad train and her right arm and left
hand cut off. Through skilled treatment
her life and ner left arm were saved. a
reporter who visited her a few days ago
found her in good health, cheerful and
making herself generally useful. BY aid
of an artificial hand, made by her father,
she can pump and carry water, bring IN
coal, write a good hand, and play the
piano almost as dextrOHsly as an UNI
manned person,
Colonel William Craig, an officer in the
army from 1858 to 1864, who married
relative of Mrs. President Madison, had a
vast tract in Southern Colorado, obtained
from a French Count, Vihil, who got it
from Mexico. Four or five years ago he
bonded it for cattle ranch at less than
100000. 1t is said that Governor Butler,
of Massachusetts, got the bonds at about
ten cents on the dollar, chiefly from law
services to Craig and a little money adj
vanced, and is expecting to sell the tract
in Europe, where perhaps William f.
Shafer is trying to s'place' it. Craig had
one bill from Butler of $4,000.
Laferriere, the great French actor, hav-
ing to produce an Oldplay once celebrated,
''Le Pauvre IDIOT which was a drama
tized version ofthe story of Caspar Hauser,
went to the Charenton Asylum, near Paris,
to study the actions of lunatics. He en-
countered there a melancholy mailman,
who, in his lucid moments, said to him:
slave you ever played in any of my
fathers pieces? 2" ''What is your fathers
name?' ''Victor Hugo; L am Eugene
Hugo" The actor relates the sad CONVEX
satiOn in his memoirs, which are quoted
by Jules Claretle. The incident and the
fact are undoubtedly true.
Lawyer BigelOw's claim for one-half of
the money bestowed by patriotic people
on the wife and baby of Sergeant Mason
reminds the Boston Herald of a story. In
the first place, Bigelow's charges for the
past and future amount to exactly $3,0OO,
which is, curiously enough, the sum that
Mrs. Mason is known to have saved.
Now for the anecdOte of Mr.. Choate, the
great Rufus ChOate, of the Boston bar.
One of his clerks performed certain SER
vice for a CLIENT and when Mr.. ChOate
asked how much he had received as fee,
the reply was 1.-TWO dollars" "TWO dol
larsw exclaimed Choate; "why that was
not enough. Why didn't you get more!"
Il took every penny the man had,' was
the meek answer. Then ChOate ran his
hands through his curly locks and said:
ssYoung man, you did the best you could
under the circumstances, and your con-
duct in the affair has been strictly pro-
fessiOnal."
The Queen held her second drawing
room Tuesday, March 10. 1t was less
fully attended than usual, 100 being pre-
scented to the Queen. Among the number
was Mrs. James Russell Lowell, i'll health
having hindered the necessary ceremony
hitherto. The Queen had very graciOusly
communicated to Mr.. Lowell her readi-
ness to waive the ceremony and receive
Mrs. Lowell in private. Her dress is de-
scribed as pale blue front crossed by
''scarVes" Topped with bouquets of shaded
dahlIaS: DOdlce ana Train OF Tlcn Suiue
of terra Gotta brOcaded satin. The trains
of the other court dresses were very much
shorter than of'yOre. The bouquets were
Of pOrtentous size, some of them being
fully three-quarters of a yard across.
The Queen retired before the end, al
though the ceremony was unusually
short, some ladies not being absent from
their carriages more than twenty-five
minutes. The charming Princess of
WolO hp throne flInDn
wore a beautiful dress Of pale blue satin,
trimmed with flounces of the finest Brus-
sells lace.