The Portland daily press., 1889-07-10
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

In Holland an unmarried woman always
takes the right arm of her escort and the
married woman the left At a church we'd
ding the bride enters the edifice on the right
arm Of the groom. and goes out on the left
side of her husband.
The making Of horse car line from Cairo
to the Pyramids is likely to become a COM
pleted fact before long. The money to be
paid for the Government concession has been
actually handed over to the official concerned
and preliminary operations have already
commenced.
A grand washerwOmen's competition has
been held at Bonveret. on the shores of
Lake Geneva. between French aud Swiss
laundresses. Two OF the champion washer
women of Paris appeared to represent their
country and one, Mile. Leferve, aged 10, won
the first prize. A banquet wounc up a day
such as the lake hSd never witnessed,
Micl ael Saltykoff, the Russian poet who
puzzled his admirers once by publishing a
peculiarly stupid article, and aiterward ex
planed that it was to illustrate the only
class OF literary productions that the Rus
sian censorship would permit him to pub
fish, died recently at ST. Petersburg.
The members OF the commission to procure
building for the Washington postoffice are
thinking favorably of the proposition to
lease the First Presbyterian church. Ex-
President and Mrs. Cleveland formerly at
tended service in this church, and the pastor,
Rev. Byron Sunderland, performed the cere-
mony at the White House by which they be-
came man aud wife. The late Schuyler Col
fax, when he was Vice President of the
United States, wOrshipped in this church.
and in the same edifice Rev. Henry Ward
alnr oil uhd rns fHn
body Of Uric Dahlgren, son Of Admiral
Dahlgren, who was killed before Richmond,
Va, in the closing days Of the rebellion.
The old query as to the worlds supply Of
fuel is discussed by Professor W. j. MCGEE
in the July number Of the Forum. He comes
to the conclusion that sat the present rate of
consumption the known anthracite of Amer
ca will be exhausted within few decades,
the known Dituminous coal fields of the car
bonferous within few centuries, and vast
bituminous coal beds of the cretaccous
in the Rock Mountain region within a mil
ennium or two" About that time Boston
and New England will probably be covered
with an enormous glacier, as predicted by
prophets who look ahead three OF four thou
sand years.
The fact that we have Lord Chancel-
lor," or Keeper of the Great Seal' of the
United States, is probably not generally
known. His name is George Bartle. He
was born in Virginia, and was appointed to
a clerkship in the State Department from
Virginia by Daniel Webster forty-three
years ago. lie is a little withered-up old
man of pleasantly courteous manners. as
BELTS Virginia gentleman of the old
school, but so secretive, partly by nature and
partly by the habit acquired during the forty
three years of confidential service. that it is
jokingly asserted that none of his fellow
clerks venture to ask him even the time of
day without presenting to him written
requisition from his superior officers author
izing him to give the information. He has
sole charge of the great seal of the United
States, and the Secretary of State himself
cannot induce him to unlock the doors
which guard that emblem of the country's
liberties without formal warrant signed by
the President of the United Ssates.