St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-15

yesterday morning with smile on his
face and solution of the cipher letter
in his pocket. Those who had expected
disclosure in connection with some
Clan-na-Gael scheme, or of new plot
to get away with the cZar of all the Rus
sias, were doubtless disappointed, for
the translation of the queerly arranged
letters of the manuscript gave only the
following result:
CHICAGO, 1ll.-Darling LizZy: / have only
time to write you few lines to say that ar
rived safely in Chicago last night and was
married the morning to Fred Gehlen. by Rev.
Father Dysart Father will be wild, but
can't help it. We start tonight for trip to
Utica: will write you there, same cipher.
Your loving sister, MILLY.
As in the case of every other cipher the
key to this one betrays its extreme SIM
plicity, and causes one to wonder that
the solution did not occur. Instead of
using the letter actually occurring in a
word, the writer uses two letters be-
yond the correct one in the order of the
alphabet, thus becomes C, and so on
until the two final letters y and z are
reached, these being used, as they occur
without change.
When the spring fashions in millinery
came out a few weeks ago, gold lace was
the fashionable fad, used profusely in
the decoration of those airy creations of
the millner's art destined to crown the
naughty heads of the bellies of society.
For a few weeks the demand for the
gilt-edged in hat and bonnet continued
in full swing. and dash of rich yellow
set Off to advantage the brunette beauty
and her blonde rival. Now all this is
changed. At a suggestion from Miladi's
milliner of anything approaching the
erstwhile fashionable yellow, the pros
pective purchasers hands are elevated
in holy horror at the idea-and why?
The explanation is simple enough. The
advent of the gold lace era in
to tickle the vivid fancy of
class of women whose rep
utatious will not bear inspection, and
who are notorious for the aggressive
gayety of the colorS they affect. In the
brief space of fortnight, every mem
Der of the scarlet sisterhood within
hearing distance of the court house
chimes was the possessor of more or
less gilt-edged millinery, and the style
was doomed. The proper thing now is
silver. Silver lace edgings and bands
have supplanted the gold. Those whose
early purchases made them the owner
of gold-adorned bonnets have bad them
altered in accordance with the dictates
of the new edct, and again the wearers
breath with their accustomed regularity
and freedom.
Prof. Pendergast, of the State Agri-
cultural college, states that the grain
crops in the vicinity of Henderson are
so dense and heavy. owing to the fire.
quent rains, that they have lodged
badly, and the farmers are moving
them down for grass, in the hope that
they will have time to grow up again
and yield good crop. This is partially
in the nature of an experiment, although
they have the precedent that often in
the past farms have been visited by de-
vaStating hail storms that have literally
cut down the crops when they were in
about the present stage of growth, and
that they fully recovered and gave a
gratifying yield.
Prof. Pendergast relates a novel eX-
perience at his farm. Last spring he
sowed a crop of rye, which failed to
spring up. After waiting reasonable
length of time without visible growth
from the rye he was utterly discour-
aged, and then sowed the same held
over with oats. Now the rye has sur
prised him by coming up thick and
strong, and he is moving it for fodder.
1t was, by the way, his original inten-
ton to harvest the rye for grass when
he sowed it, and he is congratulating
himself upon the hopeful pros
pect that this land will yield
him double returns. When the
rye has been cut off the oats have been
discovered springing up, and, under
ordinary circumstances they will fully
ripen in time for a bountiful harvest.
This is very like what is known as a
voluntary crop" out in the Pacific
states. One crop is harvested, and in
the harvesting the seed is shelled upon
the ground in sufficient quantity to
again sow the fields. Then the harrow
is run over, and the second crop springs
up, yielding a dou BILE profit to the agri-
culturist with little additional labor
and no expense for seed grain.