Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1884 — Page 3

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA or. E. MARSHALL, - - Publish**.

' A kovel experiment o? carrying a railroad through, a foreot has been tried in Sonoma Coimtv, California. The trees have been sawed off and levelled and the ties are fastened on the stumps, two of which are huge redwoods standing side by side and reaching seventy-five feet from the ground! So firm is this , support that heavilyloaded cars pas 3 over with perfect security. “I can open the best look that was i every made in five or six hours,” said a Washington locksmith. “These little office safes I wouldn't put that mueh time on. They don’t pay enough. I just take a hammer and break the knolr off - , and can get into the saje in about three seconds. No safe was ever made but it had some weak point known to the maker, so he could get into it in case ( the lock should refuse to respond.”

In Ontario passenger trains are not started on Sunday. Recently it was attempted on the Credit Valley, a new road, but so strong was the public feeling aroused that the company felt constrained to abolish the Sunday train. When the Dominion government directed that the Welland canal be opened during twelve hours Sunday, so strong was the expression of public opinion on the subject that in a few weeks the order was countermanded. Rearing a memorial to a creation of fiction seems a little out of the ordinary. They have come pretty near it at “Wicksworth, England, however, where a Redo memorial hall is to be built. George Eliot’s preaching woman in Adam Rede is Dinah Morris, the original o£ whom Avas Elizabeth Evans, the author’s on aunt; Dor many years she preached in the town of Wicksworth, and the necessity of a new chapel suggested the notion of a memorial building- *

A minister of the gospel in Pennsylvania has been fined $l3O for having united in marriage a young couple neither of whom was of age. As ttie rural wedding fee is said to average sl, 1.30 ceremonies will have- to be performed before the unfortunate preacher can catch up. He will also labor under the disadvantage of requiring all future applicants to visibly verge on the sere aud yellow in order that he may be on the safe side.

A great sensation is caused by the rumor that the Earl of Durham, a large land owner, an incipient politician and the bearer of an illustrious name, is about to bring an action for a judicial separation from liis wife. She is a very beautiful woman, and it was only the other day when all the town was talking about the generosity of the bridegroom in making hor a present of .£50,000 worth of jewelry in addition to the heirloom in the family. The cause assigned is the discovery that the unhappy lady is mentally unsound. It is reported that when the late Secretary Folger was a member of the New York State Senate, at the close of the famous Tweed charter, two senators, who were strongly suspected of having accepted bribes, rose to give their reasons for voting against their party. One of them, turning toward Mr. Folger and the other faithful Republicans, expressed regret at having to differ with them, and then quoted: “ ’Tis hard to part with friends so dear.” “How dear?” cried Folger, quick as a flash; “will the Senator name his prices?” A London paper publishes a curious case of bigotry in real estate. A Mr. Daniel, of Stordleigh Court, Tiverton, recently advertised a farm to 'be let. * The highest bidder was a Mr. Yeddell, and it was agreed that he should lease the farm. Before the leaso was sighed, however, he was asked if he were a churchman, and replied that he was a Wesleyan. Subsequently he received a letter from Mr. Daniel’s agent, saying that Mr. Daniel had decided not to leaso him the farm, as all his other tenants were churchmen, and no exception could be made.

At La Canada, in Los Angeles county, California, what is known as “corn grass,’’ a wild kind of pampas, is very abundant. During the spring and summer it is „ green, fresh,-and abundant.'growing to a straight height of from nine to ten and a half feet. Yet the stalks are small, also the roots, but they are so solid that a wind could not blow them an iota from the perpendicular. But in the fall and winter this growth becomes stiff, with a strong fibre/ and with proper application—there are many acres of it—would moke better paper than straw or cactus. An interesting ruin m Mexico is - thus described: The hill is about seven hundred feet high, and half way up there is a layer of gypsum, which is as white as snow and may be cut into any conceivable shape, yet. sufficiently hard to retain its shape after being cut. In thi3 layer of stone are cut hundreds upon hundreds of rooms from 6xlo to 16x18 feet square. So even and true tre the walls, floor, and ceiling, so plumb and level, as to defy variation.

There are ho windows in the w rooms, and but one entrance, which is always from the top. The rooms are but eight feet high from floor to ceiling, the stone is so white that it seems almost transparent, aud the rooms are not at all dark.

An interesting feature of the World’s Exposition at New Orleans will be a united encampment of veterans of the war, embracing the soldiers of the Union and Confederate armies. The Board of Managers of the exposition have voted SIO,OOO for this purpose, and 1,000 tents will be constructed for the free accommodation of the veterans. The movement was organized under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic and the local association of Confederate armies of Northern Virginia and Tennessee. Captain Edgar Wheeler, of Lincoln Post No. 1, G. A. R., at Topeka, Kansas, has been elected as commander of the camp. The tents will be supplemented by wooden barracks, and accommodations wil be provided for 10,000 persons.

Tee Japanese missions in Europe have just received information from their Government of the creation by Mikado of a national peerage. The list includes eleven princes, twenty-four marquesses, seventy-six counts, three hundred and twenty-four viscounts and seventy-four barons, This newlyhatched nobility will form the upper house in the future Japanese Parliament, All the members of the present Goveument and a large number of the: most trusted partisans of the Mikado have been admitted to a lower rank of nobility. The imperial decree founding the Japanese peerage is accompanied by a circular, signed by the minister of the Mikado’s household, stating upon what-basis the new aristocracy is established. It is to be hereditary in the line of male descendants; the rights of peeresses are defined, as well as those of the relative peers, and it is stipulated that the latter shall obtain" special permission from the Minister of the Imperial household in order to contract marriage or adopt children.

Gdilderland Station, New York dispatch: Fifty years ago the Jupp family, famous Hudson Valley buttermakers of that day, occupied the farm now belonging to Charles McChesney, near this station. Mrs. Jupp’s butter was always packed in peculiar shaped earthen crocks, and commanded a higher price in Albany and other markets. Before sending a crock of butter to market it was her custom to lower it into a well on the premises which was noted for its very cold water. Mrs: Jupp would leave the butter hanging in the water for several hours, and when taken out it would be as hard and cold as ice. One day in 1834 she was lowering a crock of butter into the well, when the rope broke and the crock fell to the bottom. No effort was ever made to recover it. For the first time in its history this well became almost dry during the recent long draught in this vicinity. A few days ago farmer McChesney was cleaning the well out, when he found the crock Mrs. Jupp had lost fifty years ago. In taking the crock from the well McChesuey accidentally broke it. It was one-quarter full of butter, which was as solid and sweet as it was the day it was put down, half a century ago. The crock and it contents are xm exhibition at the McChesney farm,, and hundreds have called to see them.

Paris proposes to emulate London and Now York in having steam travel witliin'its limits. This railway will be subterranean for the greater part of its length. Starting at Puteaux, the passenger will pass under the Grand Arme avenue, the external boulevards, Rome street, Boulevard Hansmann, and the great boulevards, and will not emerge into open air until he reaches the Bastile.Ho will descend about twenty-six feet to reach the cars. But the experience of New York is in favor of the elevated rather than subterranean system. All tunnels or covered ways from which air or sunlight are excluded are objectionable. There is no inter-mural travel on earth so pleasant or so cheap as that of the “Elevated” road system of New York. The business of this last company is simply prodigious. During the past year it carried nearly ninetyseven million passengers—more than all the leading trunk linos in the country. One objection to large cjties heretofore has been the great distance to be traveled in seeing friends or transacting necessary business. But these steam roads annihilate space and economize time. The period is not distant when Brooklyn and the entire region Within fifteen miles of the center of New York island will be quickly traversed as were two or three miles in times past. Steam will be superceded by, some faster motor, electricity perhaps.

The Dress of a Chinese Bride.

The bride's was of pale blue bilong, trimmed with rare old toyah, while the were of six full lengths of yellow Bigee. Her hair was dressed ala Hong Kong, there being no bangs of any description. Her charming little feet were half hiefflen in a bewitching pair of silk slippers with the heels knocked off. This vision of loveliness was carefully placed in a carriage and driven to the apartments of the bridegroom, who was wandering what sort of a companion his relatives and friends had selected for him.-—Portland Oregonian.

BIG GUNS.

How They Are Made at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Not an anvil stroke or even the monotonous blowing of a forge-bellow 3 greets the ear as one walks’ through the vast iron-works into which the na-vv-yard has been turned by the action of Congress on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy. And yet there aro close upon 1,000 men handling the metal which has given its name to the present age. Iron and steel arc to he seen in every stage of manufacture, from the forge and foundry to the finishing shops. The priecipal feature of interest at present is the construction of the steel cannons for the new cruisers. Nearly 300 men are employed in the Ordnance Department, the main work of which is tuese guns. These'-are of four sizes, five, six, eight, aud ten inch in bore, aud twelve feet six inches, fifteen, twenty, and twenty-six feet long. The process through which they pass is astonishingly complicated to the uninitiated. The forge shafts are prepared away from here and brought in a more or less rough statp. The two larger sizes are imported from Europe, and come rough-bored and turned, this being necessary to enable the tempering to be done at the place where they are forged. 'The others are turned out in the rough by the Midvale Steel Works, Pennsylvania, and are rough-bored and turned here, being returned to the works again to have the “oil temper” given to them, without which they would hurst at the first discharge. When returned here they are bored out to within one-eighth of an inch of their final internal diameter. The “jacket,” a cylindrical piece of iron, made about 8-100 of an inch smaller than the main barrel, and after having been heated to a degree just below that required to change the color of the metal, iu the language of the forge, to a “black heat,” is then shrunk on. The shrinkage on colling is sufficient to perceptibly decrease the calibre of the shaft or core by compressing the heavy forged steel. All the processes of turning and boring have to be very slowly performed when steel is being worked, and thirty inches a day is the average rate at which a six-inch gun is bored out The first cut is five inches and a quarter, and subsequently rimming out increasing it to near the required diameter. The rifling is done with a shaft constructed in the yards as are nearly all the machines used. Outside the jacket, which extends from the breech about one-third the length of the gun, are placed a number of steel rings passing beyond it, and to about one-half of the total length. These are also shrunk on. All of the surfaces which are thus brought into contact under such a tremendous pressure are carefully ground to as near as possible an absolutely true cylindrical shape, and are, therefore, in actual contract for their whole extent. During all of the handling after the first core is placed in the gun, with the double object of preserving the shape intact and forming a lathe centre. The process of boring and turning the outer surface can be carried on simultaneously by an improved double lathe, in use and manufactured in the yard. The exact cost of each gun is kept, every man’s time being charged to the work lie is actually engaged upon and the cost of the material and handling being also accurately computed. —Ph iladelph ia News.

A Wonderful Substance.

Among the moat interesting developments which have followed in the wake of the discovery of petroleum, is the immense trade which has sprung up in ozokerite, or ozocerite, as Webster has it. No fairer substance ever sprang from most unpromising parentage than the snowy, pure, tasteless, opalescent wax which is evolved from the loudsmelling, pitchy dregs of the petroleum still. The Mining Review thus sums up the many uses to which this remarkable substance is applied. This comely, impressionable article, with all its smooth, soft, snowy beauty, defies agents which can destroy the precious metals and eat up the hardest steel as water dissolves sugar. Sulphuric and other potent acids have no more effect on ozokerite than spring water. It is alike impervious to acid and to moisture. Its advent seems to have been a special dispensation in this age of electricity. Every overhead electric-light cable or underground conduit, or slender wire, cunningly wrapped with cotton thread —ail these owe their fitness for conducting the subtile fluid to the presence of this wax. And in still more familiar forms let ns outline the utility of ttiis substance. Every gashing school-girl who sinks her white teeth into chewing gum chews this paraffine wax. Every caramel she eats contains this wax, and is wrajiped in paper saturated with the same substance. The gloss seen upon hundreds of varieties of confectionery is due to the presence of this ingredient of petroleum, used to give the articles a certain consistency, as the laundress uses starch. So that a product taken from the dirtiest, worstsmelling oi tar finds its way to the millionaire’s mansion, an honored servitor. It aids to make possible the electric radience that floods his rooms; or,,in the form of wax candles, sheds a softer luster over the scene. It polishes the floor for the feet of his gnests, and it melts in their mouths in the costliest candies. For the insulation of electric wire, paraffine wax has no successful rival, and the growth of the demand for this purpose keeps pace with the rtiarvelous growth of the eleotric lighting system. A single Chicago firm bays paraffine wax by the car load. Its prico is but half that of beeswax, and yet the older wax yields readily to sulphuric or other acid, this being a test for the presence of beeswax in paraffine. The demand for paraffine for candles as yet heads the list. Then comes the needs of the paper consumers. In 1877 a single firm in New York handled 14,000 reams of waxed paper. Not only for wrapping candy s this paper valuable, but fine cutlery, hardware, etc., incased in waxed paper, .s safe from fust and dampness. Fish and bqjter and a score of other articles are also thus wrapped, and there seems literally no end to the ntes found for the paper saturated with this pure hy-

(liocarlon. In the chemist’s laboratory it is invaluable as a coating exposed to all mannerfof powerful dissolvents ; brewers find it an excellent tfiing for coating the interior of barrels; and the maker of wax flowers simulates nature in sheets of paraffine. And vet, until Drake drilled his oil well ia 1»59, the existence in this country of this “boon to civilization" was unsuspected and it lay in the depths of Pennsylva-i nia rocks, where thousands, possibly millions, of years ago it was stord by the hand of an all-wise Creator "

The Giant Crabs of Japan.

I had heard of these grekt giants, bnt I had no idea that they attained this enormous size. Arrived in Japan. I soon heard from the native fishermen the most remarkable stores, and found a man who said lie could take me to a spot where they could be caught. We started one afternoon iu one of the small native boats and skirted the bay for seven or eight miles, finally arriving at the mouth of asmaKriver. Hero we went ashore and the Japanese soon rigged up a tent of rush, in which we were to pass the night, as it was only after dark that the sea-spiders couM be seen. It was dusk when we reached the spot, and for three mortal hours we sat there speechless, watching the shore. The tide was on the ebb, and finally the fishermen grasped me suddenly by the arm and pointed down the shore a way. There 1 soon inade<>ut a curious lumbering object making its way up out of the water. The moon was rising and at every move the creature glistened and sparkled as if it was drenched with molten silver. On it came until finally I could make out the outline of a gigantic crab, that was undertaking the nncrab-like operation of leaving the water and taking to dry land- I waited until the animal stopped and showed signs that it would go no higher, and then rushed out, making for the water so as to head it oft'. I had provided myself with a large stick and soon found that I should have to use it, as the moment the huge creature saw us it started lor the water, crawling along sideways and at no mean rate of speed. I placed myself in front of it, but on the creature came, holding aloof its two claws, each of which was ten feet long, and by the time it reached me I stepped aside and was in rather a quaudry, as I wanted to secure it entire. The Jap was talking and yelling something that I could not understand, aad suddenly grasped one ohthe big claws. Seefng his game? I grabbed the other, and held on as well as wo could, and would you believe the strength of the animal -was such that we could not stand still. We pulled in opposite dihowever, and in this way lifted the animal from the ground; but while wo were holding on, the crab, by a quick movement, threw off" its'laige claws, as you have probably seen small ones do, and over we went headlong into the mud, each holding a claw, wliiie the crab took a lresh start for the water. We dropped the claws and soon had it, and a native rope soon had it powerless, although its struggles to escape and the strength displayed were marvelous, that is, in a crab. I found that the crabs came upon the shore every night and wandered about to feed, it is presumed, on the muddy fiats. Before morning we caught another and smaller one that had a spread of about ten feet. We have king crabs here, but these fellows were the king of the crab family, sure enough.— Philadelphia Times.

Trawling in the North Sea.

Trawling for fish on the shores of the North Sea has now become so vast an industry that some alarm has been raised lest the continuous dragging of the bottom of the sea by the immense fleets of steam and sailing vessels should exterminate the edible sorts of salt water fish. The line fishermen say the mesh of the trawl net is so small that it is impossible for the enormous quantities of fry that is drawn in it to escape. The consequence is that not only are the large fish captured, but the young, for which no maifliet can bo found, are destroyed. Trawls vary in size. Some are sev-enty-eight feet long,* and have abeam of from forty-eight to fifty feet, with trawl-heads of four hundred weight. The size of the mesh of trawl varies three and a half inches down to one and a half inches square. It i 3 admitted that the supply of soles has greatly fallen off; that they have become scarcer and dearer, and it is stated that in some places they do not even pay for the trouble and expense of catching. In the winter of 1844, when the Silver pits were first discovered, soles were found in enormous quantities, a single vessel getting as many as a ton and a ton and a half in one night. The price they yielded at that time was from 10 to 1G shillings a trunk, while the same quantity now would realize from £4 to £lO. It is pretty evident that the cause of this diminution in the takes is due to the destruction of fry.* Soles resort to the large estuvies to spawn, and in the winter thev go to the deep water. The suggestion has been made that, while the soles are on the spawning ground, inshore shrimptrawling ofiglit to be re-ttricted, aft. unless that is done, there is little chance of the roles attaining maturity and continuing the valuable and toothsome "article which they aye now. In fact, seme authorities assert that if some means are not devised to prevent the destruction of immature fish in the hays and estnaries, in,a very few years the sole will be a thing of the past.— London Teltgrnph.

Didn’t Know Him.

“Why don’t yon invpe Mr. Record up to the house, Alfred?” said Mrs. Innocence of Mr. Innocence. “Ob, not for the world, my dear,” exclaimed the latter. / “Why?” asked Mrs. Innocence, in surprise. “He appears to be a very well-bred person.” “l'es, yerf, that is all right, Maria; he’s well-bred enough, but he has a terrib’e refutation.” “Ah, I did not know that:” ‘ Why, didn’t you? I thought everybody knew that ho was once nomina'el for the presidency and- ” “Mr. Innocence, how dare yon introduce me io such a person, sir!”—Fittsburgh Chronicle-1 tlegrapk.

ENGLISH SNOBBERY.

How It Manifests Itself HlsajjfrerWliljr to American*. There is, however, in England, ns in every other country, a disposition to greatly exaggerate the advantage which the United States enjoy in possessing so much cheap land. I was told, only yesterday, that but for this we might be as backward as any country. To which I replied: “Do you really attribute your prosperity to land alone?” “Yes," was the answer. “How, then, is it that Russia, with so much productive so 1, is a land of miserably poor peasants?" “Ah! the Russians are a very different people from the Americans." “There,” I said, “at the very first question you change your argument from the land to the character of the inhabitants.” Adam Smith has shown that in fact the worst land in any country is generably the first settled. It is not understood here, or elsewhere in Europe, that the truest elements of prosperity in a country are freedom, equality, justice, and education. Add to this free exchanges without much extravagance, few paupers and very few immoderate fortunes, and we Bhonld have the chief elements of material prosperity. If we take, let us say, 1,000 men, and settle them anywhere, there may be found for every one his work. If they can produce more than they can consume of any fabric or material, Tetthem sell it to another community. But we introduce to this commerce a millionaire, a lord, or any person who will keep a large train of half idle servants, and establish extravagant standards of living and wants beyond the reach of the majority, we at once bring in that which results iu indolence, poverty and vic& An aristocracy did great good and little harm during the Middle Ages; now the conditions are exactly reversed.' The point was long since passed in America when this became generally understood. Here in England we are just getting to it. Half the world are still more than half convinced of the couplet: . I.et laws and learning or religion die. But, oh, preserve our old nobility! While the other half are beginning to believe that for every grain of independence and culture in the aristocrat there necessarily results ounces, if not pounds, of flunkeyism and degradation in his dependents and admirers. I have spoken of the rapidly-growing prosperity of England and the manifest improvement in the education and appearance of the lower classes. Just in proportion to this is the growing impatience at the prestige of mere rank and inherited wealth, and the anger that such beings as flunkies and servile followers and dependents should be regularly trained and made, so to speak, to disgrace the name of Englishman. Thackeray was the first to show what a m s an snob and slave an Englishman could become by being a servant and pai asite, and how the higher the lord was, the lower the lackey became. I believe that to his works more is due than to any other cause that the educated and more intelligent people of Great Britian have of late separated themselves to much from the titled classes and begun to speak so much less kindly of them. Twenty years ago people laughed at James’ yellow plush, and scorned the snow; now they are beginning to ask why they exist and what caused them? Once they would kill the snake to punish him for being one; now they would do it to prevent future snakes from coming.— Charles G. Leland, in New Orleans Tim es-Dem ocrat.

Origin of the Te Deum.

When Augustine, he who was afterwards bishop of Hippo, and who is known alike by Protestants and Catholics as St. Augustine, was in the Baptistry ol Milan, in the year 336, and Ambrose, bishop of Milan, was pouring over him the purifying water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Ambrose in his great joy over the conversion of such a notable sinner as was Augustine, broke forth into the jubilant cry—“We pi a so Thee, O God!” Whereupon Augustine replied—"We acknowledge Thee to be the Lord." .And so the grand hymn to the Trinity which we now call the Te Deum was antiphonally extemporized by these two. Such is the beautiful traditon of the origin of the Te Duem; but alas! it is based upon a very slight foundation. The authorities which set forth this view of the authorship have been impeached, and the stronger opinion is that the Te Deum antedates Ambrose ' and Augustine. There is a Greek morning hymn in the Alexandrine MS. of the Bible. This morning hymn is made up of parts of the Te Deum and the Gloria Excelsis, and is still in daily use in the Greek Church. St. Cypripian, in his treaties “On the Mortality,” etc:, then (A. D. 352,j afllietincr. 1 Carthage, refers to quotations strikingly similar to the language of the Te Deum. Blunt, in his “Annotated Pravi-r Book,” concludes that it represents the ancient Greek morning hymn of the Alexandrine manusciint and that in its present form it is a composition of the fourth or fifth century; while Mr. Hersli, in Ids “Church Dictionary," gives it a Galicap origin. It has been variously assigned to Abondius. Nicetrns, Bishop of Triers, Hilary of Poict eries and Hilary of Aries. But whether its composition be assigned to Ambrose and Augnstine, or to any of the foregoing, or whether it be founded on the Greek morning hymn, or whether its origin be ante-Nic-ene or post-Nicene, it accords exactly with the Niceo-Constantinopoli-tan creel' The same spirit is breathed forth from both, and the Te Denm is as truly a hymn to the Holy Trinity as the creed is a .dogmatic statement of the belief in that same Trinity.—Leslie's Magazine. For troublesome cold in the head the following suggestion may be good: Put a teaßpoonfui of powdered camphor in a pitcher of boiling water and inhale from the pitcher. Practice this for ten minutes at a time, and once an hour if convenient. FLATrERV is the .destruction of all f;ood fellowship; it is like a qualmish iqnor in the midst of a bottle o l good wine.— Beaconsfield. ,

CABINET GOSSIP.

Senators Bayard and Garland and Mr. Whitney Said to Be Sure - hPreparations for the Inauguration Ceremonies-Other Wash* ington News. ■ —' —i Cabinet-Making. (Washington special to the Chicago Tribune.! ' It may not be accepted as a fact that Senator Bayard can have a place in President Cleveland’s Cabinet if he so desires, and it is altogether probable that he will accept the offer. It was at first supposed he would be given the portfolio of State, but his tastes and experience run rather in the line of finance, and he will therefore in all probability be the next Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. William C. Whitney will certainly be the New York representative in the Cabinet. Rumor has given h m the post of Attorney General, for which he is thoroughly fitted, but that will probably be given to Senator Garland, and Mr. Whitney will take the Secretaryship of ttie Interior instead. The South seems to be entirely united on Senator Garland as a member of the Cabinet, and his appe intment y ill be out of deference to the w.shes of that section and because he is eminently fitted for the place. Bayard, Whitney, and Gat land are almost certain To become members of President Cleveland’s Cabinet. They are all) Democrats of the strict school, and their high personal character will no doubt be acceptable. A New York telegram says: It is understood here that Senator Bayard had considerable correspondence with Gov. Cleveland before he visited Albany, and that Senator Bayard was invited to take a seat in the Cabinet before he went there, so that he con’ll truly say that no tender of a Cabinet position was made during the Albany interview last Sunday. It is also said upon high Democratic authority that Senator Bayard personally prefers the Treasury portfolio, and in his interview with Gov. Cleveland said as much. It is also believed that the President-elect had originally intended Mr. Bayard to have . the position of Secretary of State. Ho is only embarrassed at present to find just the man for that place, and if be is successful in this direction Mr. Bayard will have the Treasury portfolio. It is said that Mr. Bayard does not regard the post of Secretary of State as one that would be as congenial as that of the Treasury. All his public experience has been in the line of financialf study, He has been upon a number of investigating committees to examine the Treasury and understands it very fully. He has but little taßte for foreign affairs. It is, however, understood that Mr. Bayard, while he was offered his choice of the Cabinet places, might be persuaded to take the Secretaryship of Slate if in the end Mr. Cleveland would be better satisfied with that arrangement. A dispatch from New York says: “Cabinet slates have been the general talk among Democrats around the hotels. Of Congressman Randall it is said that he is pressed to go into the Cabinet, especially by the Tilden-Payne influence. Congressman Paige of Ohio, who is Senator-elect Payne’s nearest friend, said to-day that Mr. Randall could go into the Cabinet if he should so elect. It is Mr. Pnyne’s opinion that, so far, Bayard for Secretary of State, Garland for Attorney General, and William C. Whitney are the only appointments Mr. Cleveland has settled upon.” Preparations for the Inauguration. [Washington telegram.] Col. James G. Berret, of this city, has received the following letter from the National Democratic Committee: New Yobx, Dec. VS.—Col James G. Berret, Washington:— Mr Deab Sir: The National Democratic Committee has selected a number of gentlemen residing in the District of Columbia as a general committee to make all the arrangements for the inauguration ceremonies March 4 next. We have selected yon to act as Chairman of the committee, and beg that you will accept the appointment It Is the desire of the National Committee that the committee of which you are Chairman shall h»ve entire charge of all matters relating to the inauguration ceremonies. To that end yon are authorized to apjoint such sub-committees as you may deem necessary. Yours truly. W. H. Barnltm, Chairman. A. P. Gorman. p- Chairman Executive Committee. Appended are the names of the fifty gentlemen who compose the general committee, as follows: Col. James G. Berret. Chairman; W. W. Corcoran, L. Z. Leiter. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, U. S. A; Admiral David D. Porter, U. 8. N.; Thomas J. Fisher, Rear Admiral C. R. P. Roger*. U. 8. N ; Gen. M. C. Meigs. U. 8. A.; Prof. Spencer F. Baird, William M. Galt, Martin F. Morris, Dr. Joseph N. Toner, Albert A. Wilson, Rear Admiral John L. Worden, U, 8. N.; Charles G. Glover, John E. Norris, Dr. D. B. Clarke, James E. Harvey. George A. Mclihenny, Gen. Chauncey McKeever. U. 8. A: James L. Barbour, Chsries G. McCawley, M. C. Walter, D. Davidge, Henry Willard, William Clagett, Hon. George Bancroft. Samuel V. Niles. WiUlani Galt, Tbomaa J. Lnttrell, E. Francis Riggs, John W. Thompson. George W. Cochran, Cnrtis J. Hillyer, Henry H. Dodge, Frank Hume, H. • Grafton Dulaney, Samuel E. Wheatley, James P. Willett, James C. Whelling. LED, Frederick B. McGuire, Stilson Hutchins, George W. Adams, Lawrence Gardner, MaJ, G. P, !,ydecker, U. 8. A, Gen. John O. Parke. U. 8. A, Henry Wise Garnet, F. L. Moore, Charles M. Matthew*. John Sims, Dr. R. 8. L. Walsh.

Bankruptcy Measures. [Washington dispa‘ch.l The Judiciary Committee expects to have a day fixed for the consideration of the Lowell bankruptcy, till. Mr. Collins, who has the measure in charge, is very much more confident that the measure will pass than he has been. The strongest opposition comes from Kentucky. The objections ‘which have been made from some of the Southern and Western cities are net as formidable as they were last year, but the opposition which has been renewed in Chicago to- the particular form of bankruptcy act known as the Lowell bill is, however, attracting considerable attention. The friends of the bill, without considering in detail the objections made by the Citizens’ Association, say that, while some of the points may be well taken, as a matter of practical legislation the only hill which can possibly be enacted by this Congress is the modified Lowell bill, which has passed the Senate. To amend the bill in the House, they Bay, would secure its defeat ~ Ail special orders hereafter made ' must be subject to the condition that their execution Bball not interfere with revenue or appropriation bills or prior special orders.

CLIPPINGS.

A Berlin house is, making cravats and scarfs of paper. 1 A LOT of so-called currant jelly ha# been seized in New York, the color of which had been unproved by the use of aniline dyes with arsenic in thorn. A Cleveland lady promenaded the streets for two hours with a card on her cloak reading: ‘Former price, S2O; marked down to sl2 to close oat” > A deeb has been killed within ten miles of Michigan's Capitol.