New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-30

h,e as an unabridged dictionary; they are bound in
Russia leather and inciosed IN Eey IN ship
hoard The case is perforated, so tnat shouio ths
vessel taken II may be thrown gsins pos
session Of IT, Nearly all Of the cable correspond.
between the Navy M b ana Sa cur Of s
cpher, During the trouble with Chill the Govern.
put to an a%n I0 but for
the fact that for every cipher word sent three "efs
saved in English. >.u .,.,., .. ..,a
message he dictates T. in plain EngLisn 70 %b
pewrssr It i Gh s sphcr TO work. To Thy
late tie message into cipher the process eeins s a
very aborous one as ae HI R, 't hs
most difficult task Is 10 unrayc me nlsssasv ~.
e Ie so ap to contain errors which throw out the
whole meaning II sometimes takes several hours
e, tenn IS based on the substitution of numerals Tor
words and then for the numerals are put made-up
me elmer. Thus the message in English undergoes
a double TRANSFORMATION Most trouble is had Win
70 be repeated over several lines and the telegraph
operators are poor During the rebellion IN braS"
The State Departments cipher Is much IKE shat
used for many years by the French Foreign vhc ice.
The French code was composed entlrey OF T NJ,
merals each representing word or phrase. tms
key Of this cipher was stolen more man 0nGe
that the Foreign Office continued to use H. mercy
notifying Gorrespohdents OF changes deSaeI ware
under Government control. bu' in the United stases
body else lie pays as much ANYBODY for esbl:
service. one OF the most expensive messages
and Vandalia we're lost in the samoan hurricane.
a message was sent from auckland which cost
by the fact that the cipher key was lost with the
Trenton and every word had to be sent IN pam
is about three and one-haf words TO every word
The work of editing and publishing the records Of
the civil War has been greatly increased by the
circumstance that many OF the aSL'Ines sem
were in cipher. The keys to the ciphers used are
not always obtanable and The ,eiegrams nave 20
verance II, is stated that the dispatches ssns over
the lines Of the Of ,Ss %ar nHmersd
last important made OF the military telegraph
ot ,ssse Of President side Lincoln BeckSith cipher
operator. who became famous es member OF zen s.
track OF the murderer and it upon informationn
which he sent TO Washington In cipher that BOOM
tempting TO escape. Beckwith received $500 Of tho
reward offered by the Government for the capture
A QUEER CIPHER.
msns s By TSs
,eegrams which come TO the Weather Bureau rTSm
ties of style. Here is an actual specimen, BY way
buffalo, April 7;-Boshful barmaid damnaOl'
This apparently conn a,s IN .S Sen;
word having a meaning. Bashfur slgnihes 'a "a.
the barometer Is g and hs ten ,5a ss % w Gs
Is from the north and that fify-two hundredths OF
an inch of rain has fallen during the last twenty.
four hours "Damnable' says that the velocity
OF the wind is twenty-five miles an hour and thsS
the highest temperature during the day was
degrees ..Bony' declares that the sky Is coVereu
With cirrhus clouds 'Fiirsutc makes II known 'nas
the observa tons were taken at y. m tnat tno
dow pont is So and that the local prediction Is TOT
fair weather Pirate" communicates the tact
that that the hishes, wind velocity was hfy.two miles
an hour. ,.. ,.o vaa,,.- prr.au'a
cinher. II Is purely for condensation and cheaps
ness As fast as the dispatches arrive. they ~
translated by an expert into ordinary Ensisn' onss
lined mans OF The United States.