Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 March 1896 — Page 7

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OLD JOHNNY LOOKUP

UNIQUE CHARACTER WELL KNOWN TO NEW YORKERS.

9or tears He Has Followed Funerals to I Cemeteries—His Sobriquet Dae to a Mai* formation of the Neck-

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For the first time sincc ho was a boy Johnny Lookup has on' address. It Is jBellevue hospital, and it is not likely to be Changed for some tinfo. Johnny was hurfc by a team of runaway horses at a funeral MI

Sunday. He has followed funerals for ten years a3 a regular occupation, and this is the first time on record that he has not gone to hud come from the cemetery on foot. After he was hurt on Sunday some of the mourners insisted on his returning |n their carriage, which ho did with much Reluctance only on finding out that it cost him great pain to walk.

Andrew J. Gallagher is his real name. If he has a home, nobody has ever heard of it. If he has any means of support, nobody knows of what nature it is. If ho lias any relatives, they keep out of his way. In the fullest sense of the term he is a citiEen of the metropolis. Sometimes he bleeps in the 10 cent lodging houses, sometimes in the police station lodging house® (sometimes he walks the streets all night. Many people know him by his two peculiarities and give him charity which enables him to livo. Of these peculiarities the one which gave him his queer name is the more noticeable.

fa always peering upward. But his other characteristic is almost unique and has piade him a well known personage of this city. It is his habit of following funerals to the cemetery, which he has practiced for ten years, since he was 18 years old. Ho always walks as near the hearse as practicable, traveling with a long swinging stride, which he can keep up for miles. Ho funeral, unless it runs away, can distance Johnny Lookup. His upturned face always wears a set expression of mournful gravity, which it does not loso until he hps soen tho coffin lowered into the gravo. On tho return trip from the ceihafery his faco is choorful, with tho expression of a plan who has dona a good day's work.

Fifth avonue funerals are his specialty. Jle will wander up and down tho avenuo day aftor day watching for a funeral procession, and having found ono will takohis usual placo near the hearse, wlienco ho is not to bo dislodgod, unless by physical forco, until tho ccmotory is reached. Whou he is not on tho prowl, privateering, as it were, for burials, ho is making tho rounds of tho fashionable chuiches to see tho sexJons, many of whom know Ilim. "Any funerals this week?y[ ho will ask. "Well, Johnny, wo haven't any today," the sexton says, "bub we'll have one Friday afternoon. Bnt you mustn't walk behind tho hoarse there. It's a vary swell funeral, and you'll havo to stick to the Sidewalk." "All right all right. I won't," comes the promiso. "I'll bo hero. Calvary or JfivcrgrecnsP"

If itiseithor of these cemeteries, Johnny Is woll satisfied, but Woodlawn is a heart breakor for him, bocause it is so long a *valk, and the liearso is likely to travel fust. Besides, in going to tho Long Island cemetorios ho gets a furry ride. Should he Jack tho faro, one of the drivers will always "stake" him, for they are quite superstitious about him and believe that his presence brings good luck.

Legend has it that early in his career Johnny started to funeral and got as far «s tho forry, whero ho was driven away by ponio of tho mourners, 'who threatened him with arrest. As the ferryboat drew out poor .Johnny was seen sitting on tho curb {ind crying as if his heart would break. Before the boat got half way over tlio machinery broke, and tho carriages wore an hour and a half in midstream. On landing a team of Jiorsos ran away, smashing three carriages, breaking a drivor's leg #mil injuring a number of tho mourners.

Finally as tho coffin was l)eing lowerod into the gravo the headstone, which was lying near, in somo way slipped and fell on it, cauiihgn terrible soeco. Tho drivers have never forgotten that ill fatod funeral, and sinco then their influonoe has been strongly exorted in Johnny's behalf. All the undertakers know him too. Thoy will go as fur as to claim him as an assistant in order topresorvo him from interference. Indeed, he sometimes provos a valuable assistant, as he is grateful and willing and will undertake any errand or commission.

In his eventful existence Johnny has boon arrested a number of times, bub has always got off. All those arrests were early in his career. So well known is ho now that ho is safe from police interference. Once ho was arrestod under peculiar circumstances.® Ib was'one afternoon wiion he was prowling around Fifth avenuo looking eagerly for tho flutter of crape. For several days he hadn't had a funeral, and ho was getting desperate. As ho reached Thirtieth street ho saw tho bead of a funeral procession crossing Thirty-third street. Off he started at full speed to join it. It was just the kind ho liked best— handsome carriages, elaborately plumed hearse and all tho attributes of richly mournful obsequies. When he had almost reachod it, an acquaintance coming down tho avenuo hailed him: "Hey, Johnny, thero goes a big funeral Jicross Twonty-ninth street."

Johnny lffbkcd around and saw another procession just as magnificent as tho first. Turning around, ho ran back to Twentyrighth streot, but once there distanco lent enchantment to the Thirty-third streot view, and he hustled up town again. So ho rushed back and forth, panting with his exertions, but incapable of making a choice in this embarrassment of riches. But finally as lie approached the up town funeral almost worn out tho last carriage crossed tho avenuo. Gathering all his Strength he galloped down toward Twentyninth street and as ho reached a half way point saw the end of that procession passlug out of sight. Then ho gavo a dozen heartrending screams and fell down in a fit. A policeman arrested him on the reasonable supposition that he was drunk, but the police justice—thoy weren't magistrates then—had heard of him and discharged him with somo advice. "Did you ever hear of Lot's wife?" asked tho justico. "No, sir. Is she dead?" asked Johnny, \vitli intense eagerness. "Shois, but you'll never go to her fuiieral,'' was the reply. *1 She started out to go somewhere—no, it wasn't to a funeral •—and turned around, and sho was turned Into a pillar of salt. There's a moral in 4hat for you. When you start to a funeral pfter this, you stick to it. Keep your eyes cu tho hearse and don't look around for anything." luos, sir," said Johnny "I'll remember that.''

And remember it he did, so well that tm tne following week he kept straignii aboad after the hearse while the rest of the procession was halting to let a street car through, ran into the horses, was knocked senseless and barely recovered in time to get on tho forryboat.

Again ho was arrested for following up hearse by a new policeman and held by a sergeant who didn't know him. From the station bouse he sent a message to a few of his friends among thehackmen asking them to have a few people in Yorkville court the next day to testify to his good character. On the morning of Johnny's arraignment. East Fifty-seventh street was choked for a block by tho carriages that •ame pouring in from all sides, and the courtroom was so filled with hackxnen that there was

room for anybody else.

selecting one of them at random, the polioe justice called him up as a witness and asked him what he knew about tho ease. "Johnny ain't done nofchin, your honor," said the witness, "on'y what he'a been doio for years—mascotin c«ar funerals—but all we got to say is this here: If you fine him anything under $500, we'll raise the stuff." "Discharged," said bis honor, and when ho went out ho found a carriage waiting for him, the driver of which explained that he had been delegated to drivo his honor hSmo as a mark of tho hackmen's esteem and regard. As far as is known, that was Johnny's last arrest.

His present accident was at Calvary cemetery. A pair of horses, becoming frightened, ran away. Johnny, marching solemnly behind the hoarse, heard them, and turning jumped $:or the bridle of the off horse and hung on as long as ho could, but was finally rolled in the dust and badly shaken up, not before be bad checked tho horses so that' they were brought under control, however. Ho was so badly shaken up that be could hardly rise, and ho was taken into one of tho carriages. Having reachod Fifth avenue, be insisted on getting out and hobbled around, the nearest corner. Yesterday morning he appeared at the morgue. Keeper White knows him well, because Johnny has been a frequent visitor there in pursuance of his poculiar line. "I want one of those," said Johnny, pointiug to a pine box. ,"I've had enough big fine funerals. A plain one will do for me." "Why, what's tho matter, Johnny?" aske^ Mr. White. "You aren't ready for your own funeral yet.'' "Pretty near pretty near. I'm all gone

It is a strange deformation of the neck JWjiich sets his head at an anglo 60 that he wrong inside." And he told the story of

the aooident. Mr. White took him over to Bellevue hospital, whore he was admitted as a patient. He is suffering from bruises and internal injuries whioh are not of a dangerous nature. All bis time is spent in clipping out death notices from newspapers whioh he succeeds in getting.—New York Sun.

THE DUSE EYELID.

The latest Fad That Is Ousting the Bernhardt Month and the Delia Fox Curl. Tho Duso eyelid is replacing the Ellen Terry skip and tho Bernhardt mouth.

Tho Duse eyelid is like the Bernhardt mouth—not always born. It may be aooomplishod by any faco not too full, but to moon faced maids it will give the look of a cross to the tail of the eye. Last, a slight touch of brown cosmetic over the- lids brings the Duse heaviness, and a littie rouge just above inoreases their size and prominence. In Such a casual way is a great beauty accomplished.

Tho Duso eyelid must express when complete a dreamy, intelligent sadness and a depth of womanly sentimont. It will fit brunettes bettor than blonds, and to make imitation perfect the faice should bo left as palo as possible and hair parted simply and combed baok without furbelows. Rejane and Ada Rehan have both fallin£ lids. Indeed an array of women of genius seoms to indicate that the droop of the eyelid denotes temperament. Until the coming of tho great Italian, however, it had mado no impression on tho feminine public. Now,tho drooping lids threaten to become moro popular than tho Delia Fox ourls.

One may for a moment imagine Duse's own sensations when she finds herself playing to a hou.-sof ul of her own eyelids.—New. York Journal.

A GOOD THING.

The Transmissisalppi Exposition One of the Things to Pnsh Along. The movement in favor of the holding of a transmiGsissippi exposition at Omaha in 1898 should be a timely romindor to the people of the east of the great extent and recent growth of our western interests.

Our strength as a nation, as woll as our growth as a country, is largely due to that continued intercourse which has kept us all in touch with each other and made us all pretty much the same kind of citizens regardless of latitude atid longitude. The Americans are the greatest travelers on tho face of the earth, and it is well that it is so. The more we travel the better acquainted we are with each other, and the better acquainted we are the better citizenship do we dovelop.

Any movement whioh brings the American people into oloser oontacb and relationship with each other and whioh extends thoknowlodgo of our oountry's wonderful resources is to be welcomed and encouraged. The proposed Omaha exposition belongs to the category of "good things" which ought to be "pushed along."—New York World.

A HAT RAISING DEVICE.

All Ton Do Is to Nod—The Machine Does the Rest. The commissioner of patents has granted a patent to James C. Boyle, an eccentric citizen of Spokane, Wash., for what ho calls "a saluting devioe." When attached to tho ordinary head, it relieves the wearer of the manual labor of lifting his hat when he meets an acquaintance and his hands are otherwise engaged. All he has to do to accomplish this is to slightly nod. The motion starts the maohinery, which is in the interior of the tile. The hat is suddenly hoisted abont a foot above the head on an apparatus like that attached to a self dumping coal cart. Then, after remaining atr rest a moment, it describes a semicircle and settles back upon tho cranium.

Not Our Style.

A rooont English book on otiqnettesays: "Morningcalls are usually made between tho hours of 2 and 4. A gontleman should tako his hat into the room with him, holding it in his hand during the visit everything else should bo left in the hall."

Well, wo do not do that in this country, thank goodness.—Manufacture.

An Orange For Fair.

An orange 16 inches in oircumforence was taken from a tree at Pomona, Cal. It Is to be sent to Europo as a specimen of California fruit.

English jSed Tape.

It may be suggested that checking beyond a certain point entails the,very inaccuraoies it is intended to prevent. Through a rather flagrant error of the war office I was onoe paid staff pay twice over. With the heavy heart whioh sometimes accompanies even actions of elementary honesty I wrote to the war office clerks, traditionally honored by their perfection of checking, pointing out the necessity that I should refund. The culprits purged themselves of their offense by sending me, who had rectified it, an illogical robuko to the effect that the error of overpayment would be overlooked on this occasion, but I must not do 60 again.—Blackwood's Magazine.

Take Simmons Liver Regulator now. Its just the remedy for the spring of the year to wake up the liver and cleanse the whole system Qf the accumulated waste of the winter. "My wife combatted more malaria in Alabama in 1S61 wifh Simmons Liver Regulator than all the doctors in the neighborhood. We've hiad a seige of malarfca in our own

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TREMENDOUS INCREASE IK NORTHWEST RECEIPTS THE CAUSE.

Lost a Fall Gent Before the CloMTTe«tei—' day—Corn and Oats Dropped a tlon—Provisions Broke. j.-

Chicago, March 19.—The tremendous Increase in tlfe northwest receipts overshadowed all other influences in wheat today and in spits Of plenty'of crop damage rep&rts May closed a full cent under yesterday's final figures. Com and oats ea£h sold off cent *ea€ti. provisions had a severe break, 'porit '-especially suffering^

In wheat quite 'aSi-afcS^-^trad^ was witnessed, the market attracted* ateritfem during the early hourd, twith 'the voijitoe of business eonsldpraii§'| ^nlatgged/

feeding developed was cfuSie tfeik and prices again •r,eced&d. The receipt of 678 cars of Wheat at Minneapolis and DuSuth against 350 a week ago, and 362 on the porrespooiding day last year, struck thra keynote of the opening symphony. May, which closed yesterday at 63@63ife, was offered freely at from 62% to 62% when 'business commenced and inside otf forty mimi'tes the volume of selling was so great that it orushed the price to t2 a clear drop of 1 cent per bushel under the previous day's closing price. The weather was by no means favorable and a sharp dx-op in temperature was predicted. Croj reports were more or less unfavorable and the Price Current's summary was looked upon as' decidedly "bullish, reporting the week

OATS.

May— July....

Such considerations, however, were virtually tabooed. The only thing operators seemed to see was the enormous deliveries in Dhe northwest and the market for another hour gave no sign of .a material raWy. A slight up turn of the. price followed the posting of-the New

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unfavorable and soime areas in Ohio and otter central regions as having been abandoned for other crops. Prime reported that thiere was every prospect of an unfavorable and backward spring.

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ances at wheat and flour amounting to 197,000. The total clearances from tiro principal Atlantic ports were equal "to 277,000 in wheat and flour together.

The readtion oh that took the price to 62^@62% aavd for some time afterward trading was faarly active but almost entirely of a professional 'character. In the closing (hour the market because dull and gradually worked down to (214^62^: at which price It closed.

Corn was exceedingly dull an'd weaK, the break in wliealt causing a slight loss. The strong cables prevented any material recessions. May opened urachairvgea at 39% and closed steady at-

29%-seller-s.

Oats were very quiet and dull, nuctua tions 'betog within Vi cent range. May opened a ^hade lower at 2tH4@20% and. ^emained weak with w*healt, closing at 20^.

Provisions 'had another, disastrous .day and prices in pork, especially were' demoralized. Opening weak and lower on the big run of hogs, prices temded steadily downward under heavy licjuiidatkon, watch continued un til the close. .May pork closed 37tic lower, at $9.15 May lard 5 cents lower "at $5.30, and May ribs 15 lower at $4.921.4.

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MONEY, STOCKS AND BONDS.

Little of Incident in the Financial Market Yesterday. New York, Marc.h 19.—The trading in stocks today was tfor the most part of the usual professional character. The course otf trade was irregular and the movements reflected in a very slight degree'the tented news that might be considered to exert a legitimate bearing upon values. The initial prices were irregular, with ithe inteirnatioaially lisited stocks generally showing improvement. The contributory influence was higher for that acount in. this market, chiefly to cover shorts. St. Paul was the leader in point of advance. Representative foreign houses were favorably impressed by t'he news cif the less strained political relations of the powers especially England and .France, regarding the propesed British advance into 'the Soudan. The early gains noted were 'fractional and were soon offset by tttie appearance of weakness in several stocks and by revived rumors of prompt action by the senate on the Cuban question. Free selling by. influential tootises having "Washington connections was (noted, and tlhls encouraged aggressive action by the professional dealers. Some- of the recognized bear leaders were active and their operations were based on the unfavorable mercantile situation. Stress was also laid upon the reported unsatisfactory condition of 'the iron industry while some, of the smaller anthracite coal properties were attacked on ruimors of umfavora.Me temporary results as to gross earnings arising from .the present polioy of rigid restriction's of the anthracite coal out put. Wheeling and Lake Erie preferred again attracted attention by a loss of 3 per cent. The eceentrilc .tone of prices in the industrials was stricitly followed with Tobacco still in 'the lead in extent of trade but the net change in its price Showed only a slight gain. Th'e railway shares em-joyed a larger propor^Mon of business than usual, but ithe increase was atended by acute weakness In a niuimber of ints'ta.nces.

The met changes for the en.tire list were general fractional losses. The. railway bonds were easier with aggregate, transactions of $1,410,000.

The total sales of sitocks today were 164 755 shares, including American Tolbacco' 29,000, Sugar R«ftneryJ 15,000, St.- Paul 12,600.

Money on call easy at JK®4 per cent. Prime mercantile paiper 50X5. per cent sterling exchange easy tout,..not -quotalbly lower, with actual business an banker's bills $4.87is!?i4.87%, and for sixtv days bar silver 6S^ cert.ificaites 6S'X.#69.

Government twwi&s ©tcady, Stat6 'fronds dull, railroad bonds easier. Bank clearings $90,749,115 balances 057,150.

Following: are the closing? Quototions of the leading stocks and bonds: Atchison Adams Express 148 Alton and Terre Haute ^American Express 110 Baltimore and Ohio 16% Canada Placific 5o Cannda Southern -.40 Central Pacific ....._ 15 Chesapeake and Ohio 16 Chicago and Alton ..... ,.,..155 Chicago, Burlington and Quirvcy 78V* Chicago Gas 64% Consolidated Gas 14IH4 C., C., C. and St. Louis 35% Colorado Coal a-nd Iron 2^ Cotton Oil Certificates 15% Delaware and Hudson 126H Del., Lack, and Western 160^4 Denver and Rio Grande, pretfd 46% Distilers and Calttle Feeders Co Erie 14% Erie, prefd Erie, fK^ooojl prefd 2314 Fort Wa»ne l6^ Great Northern, prefd 108 Chlcatro and Eastern Illinois.-prefd..100 Hocking Valley 15% Illinois Central ...98 St. Paul"fend Duluth 26 Kansas and Texas, T*refd 26% Lake Orfe and Western 131,4 Lake Erie and Western, prdfd. 71H Lake Shore 145% Lead Trust 23% Louisville and Nashville 51*4 Louisville and New Albany 8% Man.hatavn Consolidated 108 Memphis and Charleston 15 Midhigtan Central 95 Missouri Pacific 2S% Mobile and Ohio 2S Na»hville and Oh art tanoogfa B8 National Cordage 4% National Cordage, prefd 9 New Jersey Central 105% Norfolk and Western* pre-fid 6% Nortth American Company- 5% Northern Paciflc 1% Northern Pacific, prefd 12 T7. P., Denver and G-ulf 4 Rubber 25 Rubber, prefd 83 Northwestern 108% North-western, prefd .144^4 Nefw York Centa^J. ex. div Sf!4 New York: and New England.40

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TEARE HAITTK EXPRESS FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH W 18JW.

Ontario and Western ......... 14^4 Oregon? Improve|na,6n't .-••• Oregon Navigation, all ass't paid .... 19 Oregon Short Line' and UtaTi Nortft.. 3Mt Pacific Mail 25% Peoria, Decatur and EvansviHe ....... 2% PittabUrg ....• 160 Pullman Fsalace 155 Reeding ...... 10% Rio Grande and Western •Hio Grande and Western, Hock Island ...i.... St'Paul

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t. Paul, prefd ......v Pacific Sugar Refinery .... ......... Tennessee Coal and Iron Texas Pacific ..... Toledo and Ohio.Central, Union Pacific United States Express-. Wabash, St. Louis and Pac Wabash, ©t il». 'afid^PapiTSpJ Wells Pargoj-Exprfrjjsi 4 Wextern 1«. r. Wheeling ^dS&dce iBrM

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THE LIVE STOCK MARKET.

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Cattle Iiower—Hogs Active Strong—Shee Steady. Indianapolis, March 19.—Oattle receipts 360 head. Shipments light. The market for steers was about 10 cents lower, and good bfl'tcher cattle sold fully steady ait quotations:

Eixport and shipping cattle we quote: Fat, well finished, dryfed steers, 1400 1'bs and upward 4 10® 4 25 Good to ohoice Shipping and export steers 3 85® 4 00 Fair to medium shipping s'tears 3 60@ 3 SO Common steers 3 25@ 3 50 Good to choice feeding Steers 3 60@ 3 75 Fair to medium feeding steers 3 30(5) 3 50 Common to good stbekers .... 3 00@ 3 30

Butchers' catle we quote: Good to choice' heifers 3 35(3) 3 90 Fair to medium heifers 2 75@ 3 25 Oomimon to light heifers 2 50@ 2 75 Good 'to choice cows 3 10® 3 50 Fair to medium cows —w,.... 2 60® 3 00 Common old co-ws 1 25® 3 35 V'eal calves 4 50® 5 50 Heavy calves 3 00® 4 25 Prime to fancy export bulls .!}..-. 3' 00@ 3 25

Hogs—Reeeipts 3,500 h«ad. Shipments 1,500 head, with pacqers and shippers 'buying more freely, the hog market was active from the start, and all were sooni gold at steady to strong .prices. We quote: Good 'to choice medium and heavy ..$4 00®4 05 Mixed and 'heavy pa ok in 3 9C®4 00 Good to ohoice lightweights 1 4 00®4 05 Co'mimon lightweights 8 90®4 00 PJga 3 00®4 05 Roughs 3 00®3 65

Sheep—Receipts 200 head. {Shipments fair. The sheep market was quottably steady and lambs rather easier. Good to choice lamibs ......—$4 00®4 40 Common'to medium lambs i'.'.i— 3 00®3 90 Export eiwes and withers 3 25ff3 65 Good to choice sheep 2 85®3 Fair to medium sheep .v.. 2 35®2 75 Common sheep 1 50®2 25 Bucks, per head 2 00@4 00

Coffee and Sugar Market.

New York, March 19.—Coffee—Options ruled dull and featureless. Small local selling caused decline: closed inactive at 5@10 points net loss. Sales 6,250 bags, including March $13.15®13.20. Spot Rio steadv, No. 7, 13% mild steady cordova 16%®18.

Sugar—Raw, firtm, centrifugal 96 test 4 3-16 refined firm.

Peoria Corn' Market.

Peoria, March 19.—Corn steady: new No 2, 27U new No. 3, 26%. Oalts slow, easy No. 2 white 19Vfe®19%: No. 3 whibe 18%@ 19 Rye, dull, mom.inal No. 2, 37@38. Whisky steady, unchanged.

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Minneapolis, March 19.—Wheat' steady and lower, March 58, May 58," July 59% on track, No. 1 hard, 59 No. 1 northern 58, No. 2 northern 57^4 receipts 407 cars.

A Remarkable Advertisement. This issue of the Express prints a remarkable advertisement from a re mark-able newspaper—The Chicago •Record. The Record is Chicago's leading 'newspaper in point of circulation In ifacti ®ext to the New York World it claims the largest morning circulation in 'America—160,006 a 'day. It is but (fifteen years old, yet ii has mad'e a record of remarkable achievement within that comparatively. Short time. It has a way of doing n«w'and strange things. 'Its latest enterprise is the in stitution of a competition among the authors of the world fb-r the .best ori •gi'nal stories of a type .which it calls "mysterious stories." A year ago it offered $30,000 in cash prices to authors for the best stories of -this kind. *The award of the prizes has just been made, and the publication of*' the first prize story, which won for ifs Author $10,000, is announced in the Rfecordi's advertisement in this issue' the Express. (Not satisfied, 'however, with this unusual achievement The Record "broke the record" "by announcing that in connection with the publication of its great prize story it .will distribute. $10,000 in cash for the -best 889 guesses as to the true' explanation of the mystery of the story as disclosed in the final chapter, the-publication of which will be delayed a week or ten days beyond the rest df the story to give -an opportunity .for readers to frame and send in their guesses to the office of the paper. But perhaps 'the strangest feature of this unprecedented competitive contest, both as to authors and readers, is the unique condition imposed on the guessers that "only women a red girls may guess and win prizes." We refer otir readers .to the advertisement in another column which sets forth in more detail The Record's remarkable announcement. The concluding feature—that new readers may send ten cents and -get The Record ten days on trial, is a peculiarly happy and wise conclusion .to this most unusual enterprise.

It may be added that In Che .publication of its first series of "mystery stories," last .year, The Record distributed cash pMieb-to the best guessers, but on a more mddest (Scale than it no^v an* noupceis.

Its list of those that won and received prises for best guesses in 1895 counts upiUOO .nairseA and aggregates over $6.00£f\The febmplete list of these tortunate guessers, with their addresses,- has been sent us by The Record and it makes a truly formidable and interesting showing.

'HOWS THIS

We offer $100 reward fohr Any case of catarrh that cannot toe cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. "/I

F. J. Cheney & Co., Brp£., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, iiiave known F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen years and believe him perfectly honorable 4n all business transactions and financially a-ble to oarry out any Obligation made by their Arm.

West & Traux, wlMfsale drug-gists, Toledo, O. -x:tu Walding, KInnan & Marvin, wholfri sale druggists, Toledo,. O.

Hall's Catarrh Cure: is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of 'the system. Price 75 ceiits per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free.

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LET US ALL FLUTTER.

Two generations ago and long before man generally was content to move in tats. Then be began to move .on rails, and civilized mankind has certainly and permanently been elevated thereby. Prom ruts to rails is a vast improvement. But lt'% #boat time to begin now to think of anotber move—it's time to begin to think of'soaring &bd if we—i. e.,.yoa—are afzaid to soar, then, let tis at loast try to flatter.

If on Mars thei^ dweU%» race superior to-ifoan, who, among* ptHer superior z^pliances, bave also superior telescopes, they will be apt to believe that the many bicyclists rashing aroand everywhere are poor terrestrians frantically and vainly endeavoring to fly—it really looks that way from a distance, at least to observers who have seen old hens and other heavy birds stTuggling.to rise over a fence or wall. And if thio Mars oiiaps think so, they are near to

For the success of the bicycle has stimulated effort to perfect thq mofcocycle, or horseless carriage. This effort will soonbr or later extend to the application of aeropropellers, and the application of the aeropropellers in any department of transportation will even more surely lead to mechanical flight—1. a, practical mechanical flight.

Even many iptelligefct people are puzzled by the expressions "pounds of pull" and "pounds of push," frequently occurring in treatises on looomotives, etc. It's an easy orife, though. If you push or pull the hook of a spring balance so that the indicator marks flvo pounds, you exert a push or pull of five pounds, of course. See?

Well, according to tho above, one pound of pall will start 71 pounds plpoed on wheels resting on rails, and will move over 100 pounds when the vehiole has acquired momentum. This appears in accord with the statement ipade long ago and often that a pull or push of one pound will propel 25 pounds over a fairly good, say macadamised, road.

Now let us consider spnie figures—-fig-ures whioh it happens don't lie. Sir. Hiram S. Maxijn has on exhibition at Bexley, Kent, England, two propellers operating on the air which at different times have developed a push of 9,000 pounds. A pull of 2,000 pounds would propel a load of 200,000 pounds ovtir the rails at a speed of 12 miles an hour or a load of 60,000 pounds over a macadamized road. It does not matter how ipnch money and steam were expended to obtain the now famous 2,000 pound pull—first it suffices to have incontrovertible assurance that such a tremendous pull altogether is obtainable by operating solely on what so many people still lazily believe to be wholly unresisting air.

At different times mention has been made of the theoretical possibility—the mathematically demonstrative possibility —of obtaining ten times more propelling force in tl\e air t$fen is obtained by the use of the screw propellers, suoh as are employed by Mr. Maxim, or, say, 60 pounds of push o? pull p§r horsepower. A push of 50 pounds tfould i|jqv6 1,26(5 pounds—a wagon, m6tor cp ridert—qver a good road. An aeropropelled mqtocydfe is possible, nay theoretically possible. Hence, fetalis try to flutter,

Let it be understood, however, that sqoh an aeroprepdljer Certainly f^^ulres too much room to permit it trqvei through city streets, {hit it wotild fie aVai&ble on open country roads," fa? rapi'd transit across our vast prairlfce—&&£ acroga bhe immense Sahara. Lef thoye who. Will flutter there.—St. Louis Post-Bispatch. fr

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THIS WE MAY DO IF WE ARE NOT YET -V- READY TO FLY. *.

8app«M Aero-propellerf Shdnld Drive Os* Vehicle*—A Simple Explanation of the Principle of Propnlsivo Force and Method* at Applyins

In Franoe the motooycle, or horseless carriage, has already become a fixture, and its general use in this country, as a pleasure vehicle at least, is only a question of time. May we then get such excellent roads as Franoe can boast of, and may it stimulate us to surpass French and German and English motooyoles—make the European invention flutter, so to speak.

There is exceeding crudity in the present methods of applying propulsive force to road vehicles by mechanical means. It is applied through cog wheel, chain or band on one of :the axles of the wagon wheels. Therein lies the crudity. It is not applied on the rims of tho wheel, because that could be done only at the expense of speod, and there is no speed to spare.

One can easily fqrm a correct idea of the vast difference in the amount of force required respectively in the two cases. Just try to move a buggy or other light vehicle by exerting your force while catching hold of the spokes near the axle, and next exert your force while grabbing the fellies. No additional scientific explanation will then be wanted. Henoe it must be of high importance to find some propelling devioe which operates on the rim of the wheel instead of on its axle, while yet permitting the attainment of high speed.

The reader understands, without scientific explanation, that extraneous push or pull exerted horizontally on a vehicle— preferably at right, angles to the axles— operates, so to speak, through the rim of the wheels. Theoretically such extraneous propulsion by mechanical means is possible by two methods—with propellers transmitting force through the resistance of the surface over whioh the vehicle passed, and with propellers operating by force transmitted through the resistance of the air. The first of these two methods opens a vast field for fanciful devices, but it is hardly rational to suppose that anything practical will be achieved herein at least, those boat qualified seem to have abandoned, perhaps never entertained, hope of success in that quarter. The second method, however, is certainly applicable to a large extent.

Child OoiL.nalMlona.

Probably the most remarkable Inefc Is that of tiie late Admiral Sir Ptovo lis. His father, captain of a ship, eMgjfid his son as an able se&aftn at I yean 40. The youth received pay as suoh untfi he became a midshipman, and then bis pay increased as he rose step by step to an admiral, and as he died at the age of 99 lie actually reoeived pay fer 94 years. On account of his services and us gndtAffd be was retained on the aooive listr—-tAafc is, received full pay—to tfep end of his life. It was he who succeeded Oaptsain Van Broke in oommapd of the SjiftpBon. after ber gagexsent with ihe CJfcjtea^eaka and towed the latter into t&rbof In 1813. He died in 1890.—Not&f ana Qborifo.

I argue notr against heaven's hand or Will nor bate a jot of heart or fiope, but still bear up and steer right onwaxd.-r Milton. i.. .v*

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cited for Castoria. When she became Miss, (she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gavo them Castoria.

The funeral of Henry (Hner, who diedi Wednesday evening, will tfcke place this afternoon. There will be services at his late residence, 1726 (Sycamore street. The G. A. R. will Jiaiv$ charge Qf ihe funeral. -1.

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OF NOVEMBER

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Bateman's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, many so-called Soothing Syrups, end most remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine

Po YOll Know that opium and morphine are stupefying narcotic poisons?

Do Yon Know that in most countries druggists are not permitted to sell narcotics •without labeling them poisons

Po Yon Know that you should not permit any medicine to be given your cliild unless you or your physician know of what it is composed

Po Yon Know that Castoria is a purely vegetable preparation, and tliat a list of its ingredients'is published with every botUe

Po Yon Know that Castoria is the prescription of the famous Dr. Samuel Pitcher. That it has been in use for nearly thirty years, and that more Castoria is now sold than of all other remedies for children combined

Po Yon Know that the Patent Office Department of the United States, and of other countries, have issued exclusive right to Dr. Pitcher and his assigns to use the woxd Castoria and its formula, and that to imitate them is a state prison offense

A po Yon Know that one of the reasons for granting this government protection was because Castoria had been proven to be absolutely harmless

Po Yon Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your children mgy Ik kept well, and that you may have unbroken rest ?,

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