The names of the Cabinet officers are as follows:

Secretary of State, John Sherman.

Secretary of the Treasury, Lyman Gage.

Secretary of War, Gen. Russell A. Alger.

Attorney-General, Joseph McKenna.

Postmaster-General, James A. Gary.

Secretary of the Navy, John D. Long.

Secretary of the Interior, Cornelius N. Bliss.

Secretary of Agriculture, James Wilson.

The Senate confirmed the President's nominations, and the matter of the
Cabinet was settled.

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A very exciting account of a trip down a lumber flume comes from Pomona,
California.

It seems that in the lumber regions on the Pacific Coast, flumes are built
for the purpose of carrying the lumber from the camps in the mountains to
the sawmills in the valleys below.