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Highest percentage Extract. ' Lowest percentage Alcohol. An effectiveT O111C. An agreeable Beverage. A mildStimu- lant. Just what phySiCianS W111 pre- scribe for Nursing Mothers _ Convales- cents and victims of Insomnia or' Nerv- ous Disorders resulting from Impaired Digestion and Overwork. For Sale and Delivered Anywhere Lone Island Bottling 00., 280-284- Bergen St-. Brooklyn. FOR SALE BY EDWARD P. WEED. PRIVATE Instructions given in BOXING at the pupil’s home. CLASS Now fo.ming, and ap- desiring t0 join should apply at plicants once to Prof. Geo. Yoerger. South. Norwalk. . . or at this office. h—M OO YOII KNOW fl That you can save money by buying your Meats ind Fish at F. W. SlIlTll’S, 55 Main Street- > Everything First Class. OPEN EVENINGS' HIS "Linuscunsmn. A'NEWSPAPER .MAN GOES UP IN A BALLOON. “'ilbur W. Judd, of the Moriden, Conn., Record Staff, Attaches Himself to a Trapeze Bar and Sails Away. lie De- scribes. His Sensations. Wilbur TV. Judd of the ltcwrd statl' ascended in a balloon Monday even- ing from Hanover Park. Newspaper men have made balloon accessions in cars or baskets attached to 1'. gas bal- loon managed by a practical aeronaut, but to manage the air-ship alone and to drop with a parachute is entirely tonmecedented. About 5,000 people witnessed the ascension. The story of the trip is told by Mr. Judd as fol- lows: “The idea of going up in a balloon is associated in the minds of most people with the terrible. The aero- naut is possibly doomed to a horrible death and he holds the fascinated at- tention of the spectators. but I feel as if I had just descended from a serene world, as though for a few mo- ments I had been transported into a clime where alluring quietude pre- vailed. It was the pleasantest sensa- tion, or series of sensations, that I ever experienced. Of course, there is some satisfaction in being on terra firma again, but it was not half so vio— lent an act as I had anticipated. “It was entirely my own idea. I made a detailed study of the mechan- ism of the balloon for two weeks, and findin<r Mr. Gould 13. very careful and practical man in the management of the graceful air globe, when he told me I might go up any time I chose I began to consider the matter more seriously. “I have never had any tendencies to- ward the circus ring, and plebeian love of creating a sensation is not mine, but it would be a novel thing, and the idea of flunking never occurred to me. Gould Crosby and Burdette worked assiduously to see that every rope of the parachute lay on the ground in perfect order. At last every- thing was ready. The balloon swayed with symmetrical fulness, the ropes at the bottom were gathered and the parachute attached. I got into the trapeze, fixed the wrist lock, and snapped the catch at my belt. “I stood firmly on the ground. The word was given to let go, the balloon arose from above the pit, the closely folded parachute was drawn up from the ground in a taut line. It seemed a slow motion enough, but suddenly the trapeze drew me from my feet, and I was swept with great speed into space. This was the only frightful moment of the trip. I was dragged away from all things tangible; the earth was near so that by comparison I could be aware of my speed, but in a. twinkling almost this terror left me. I tried to grasp by a supreme mental eflort the facts of my condition, and I became contented. “I first looked down and saw the up- turned faces fade instantly until I could no longer see anything but a tiny circle. Then I let go of the rope with my right hand, and taking off my cap, leaned down and waved it. I felt a sense of exhilaration and thought I heard a faint murmur of voices. “Then I looked up; the parachute ropes were twisted, but my weight caused them to unwind, and in a mo- ment every cord hung straight from the folds of the parachute to the ring from which my trapeze was sus- pended. I reached up and took firm hold of this wOoden ring and moved more to the 'center of my seat. All feeling of fear was eradicated. “Now I looked down. I could not dis- cern a human being nor a group of human beings. The earth was bathed in a translucent twilight, and it seemed as though far below was spread a wonderful carpet of soft green and woven with quaint patterns. The lake appeared very nearly under me; distances below were to be meas- ured in inches. The spot of water was about as large as a sheet of writing paper. I swept the green boundary of the green circle with my eyes. I could see countless villages and sev- eral cities and the sound. West Peak was like an ant hill. It is estimated that I ascended 4,000 feet. “A pistol shot disturbed me and I realized the moment to cut loose had come. No use to meditate on the pos- sible results. I reached up my right hand, and, without allowing myself to think, gave the rope a quick and sharp pull. Everything gave way beneath me—I fell a dead weight probably over a hundred feet. I heard the swishing of the folds over my head; then a fold caught a gust of wind, then another, and I seemed to come to a sudden stop. I looked up. The parachute had opened and floated like a protecting bird overhead. It took. so I am told, over a minute and a half to ride down. . “As when I went up the earth seem- ed to sink, so as I came down the fairy carpet danced up in the fields. The houses, woods and fields moved along in a procession. I thought I would land in an open meadow, but I passed over it. Yes, I was about to strike a house—I cleared it and fell easily throu h the branches of a tree. The parac ute spread itself over the treetop and I hung in a swing. It was a small tree and I was within fifteen feet of the ground. It was an easy task to swing out and slide down the tree to the ground. My first and only ascension Was over.—-Meriden Record. The Doctor's Diagnosis. Judge-“Well, ‘doctor, what is the condition of the burglar’s victim?” Doctor—“One of his wounds is ab- solutely fatal, but the other two are not dangerous, and can be healed.” THE NEWS FROM CUBA. Weyl'er Displays Extraordinary Ability as a Fake Reporter. “Well,” inquired the Commander in Chief of the Spanish forces as one of the field oflicers entered the room. “what news?” “Sire!” exclaimed the officer, “I have to report that yesterday a body of nearly a thousand of our troops met a band of about two hundred in- surgents fifteen miles from the city. W'ithin ten minutes of the time when they caught sight of us they were on the run, and"— . “Stopl until I can cable Spain! The Home Government must be apprised at once of the victory.” “I wish to say, sire, that”— ‘Silence! there will be time for that later;” and turning to his stenographer he dictated the following despatch from the seat of war: Havana: July ’Steenth.—-Yesterday a small detachment of the Spanish army came suddenly upon several thousand of the insurgents strongly intrenched upon the hillside at a mint about fif- teen miles from this city. Though outnumbered ten to one, and at a dis- advantage as regards position, the Spanish force quickly drove the enemy from their position and pursued them until nightfall. The Spanish loss was one man killed and two slightly wounded. The insurgent loss must have been tremendous, amounting, probably to several hundred, but in the darkness they succeeded in mak- ing their-escape and taking their dead with them. “Now, what was it you wanted to add, you tan-faced freak from the frontier?” gently inquired the Com- ‘mandcr' in Chief. “I was on the point of saying, sire, that they were on the run toward us, and that it was only by throwing away our arms that we managed to escape with our lives.” But by that time the despatch was ready to be sent, and, inasmuch as it was correct in the main point that two forces had met, Weyler thought it hardly worth while to make the other minor changes. THE DRAWBACKS OF GREATNESS. That is, of Foreign Greatness-Our Own Has None. Of all the potentates of the earth, the Czar of Russia is probably the most powerful and absolute, as well as the richest. And yet when he un- dertook to accompany his young wife on a visit to her royal grandmother. in England, he did so under co di- tions which the humblest of his b- jeets would not be willing to accept. The mere announcement of his in- tention was followed by unusual ac- tivity among the police of two na- tions, with the not unnatural result of the-discovery of a conspiracy to blow him up with dynamite. We may hope and even believe that the conspiracy existed only in the imag- ination of the police, but the British authorities were obliged to give the intended victim the benefit of the doubt. The poor Czar was guarded as closely as if_he were invading a hostile country, and the precautions taken to secure his safety were such as to make him feel at home in the most painful sense.of the word. What a contrast between the ruler of Russia taking his vacation between two lines of guards and the Chief Magistrate of our Republic playing lone fisherman in the quiet and se- clusion of Buzzard’s Bay! Spider Architecture. No one who has spent much time in the country can have failed to observe and admire the beautiful webs of the little garden spider. These webs, cir- cular in outline, with radiating threads running from centre to circumfer- ence and supporting a system of con- centric fines, are regarded by natu- ralists as the highest architectural achievement of spiders. The maker of the web sits at its centre, where the slightest vibration caused by the struggles of an entangled victim is instantaneourly felt. The threads are so fine as to be almost invisible in some lights, and at the same time so strong that no insect not too powerful for the spider to overcome is able to break them. The great ingenuity and perfection of these geometrical webs naturally give rise to the question, How did the spider-learn the art of making them? The naturalist is not satisfied with the reply that it is a matter of instinct. He finds that there are wide differ- ences among the webs of different spi- ders, and his observations lead him to think that he can discern a sort of progress, which he calls evolution, in the art of web-making among spiders. The common house spider spins a web quite different from that of the garden spider. The « house spider’s web consists of a silver tube hidden in a dark corner with an irregular sheet of closely woven meshes spread before it. The tube is the spider’s lurking-hole and place of refuge; the outspread web is its snare. The wolf-spider makes a tubular hole with a hinged door for a refuge, and spreads no snare. Still another species of spider constructs a far sim- pler tube of silk without any lid or door. Their Popularity Explained. Q “I thought he admired large wo— men,” he said. “That’s what he always said,” she answered. “And yet he married a little bit of a thing,” he persisted. “Does that surprise you?” she in- quired. “Certainly, when he admired—” “Oh, that has nothing to do with it,” she explained, showing some con- tempt for his ignorance. “Lots or men admire large women, but they don’t pick out that kind to boss around.”—Chicago Post. , 'BAY STATE cos MUDDLE. ‘ t A Receiver For the Company Appointed. Today In Wilmington, Del. ‘ BOSTON, Oct. 17.—The expected has happened. A receiver, S. Augustus Mc-fl ,Caulley, president of the Artisan Savings bank of Wilmington, Del., has been ap-f pointed for the Bay State Gas company of Delaware, which controls the entire gas plant. of Boston. The appointment was made in Wilming- ton today. The announcement reached this city soon aftqr the opening of the stock market and the stock. already weak, broke to the lowest. point on record. The receivership is the result of “hearings that have been in progress for some days past and the outgrowth of the long stand- ing differences between the various inter- ests controlling the gas situation. NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—In some quarters in this city the application for a receiver was regarded as a political move in the fight for the Republican senator-ship in Delaware. The application was made, it is said, by ex-Senator Higgins on behalf of William Buchanan of Buchanancb Lyell, tobacconists, an income bond holder. The order is returnable Nov. 7—that is, four days after the election. . There has been talk in Wall street for some time of a receivership for the Bay State Gas company, and its stock has sold down steadily from in the twenties to the low point which was reached today on the announcement of the reoeivershlp.‘ There is, however, little interest in the stock in this market, and the dealings in it have never been large',r the transactions in. the twoforenoon hours‘today being .un- der 3, 000 shares. ' The authorized issue under the mort- gage of 1889 was $12,000,000, of which $7,000, 000 is secured by the Mercantile Trust company, a trustee of nearly all the stock of the Boston, South Boston, Rox- bury and Bay State (of Massachusetts) Gas Light company of Boston, the report- ed cost of which to the company was $10,- 000,000. Of the balance ($5,000, 000) $2,- 000,000 was reserved for betterments and improvements and $3,000,000 to acquire control of other gas companies. An annu- al sinking fund of l per cent of the entire issue was provided for, and bonds can be drawn at 105. All bonds issued are de- posited with the Mercantile Trust com- pany, New York. which issued its Boston gas trust certificates. BMIGRA'NTs DBOBIVBD. Further Government Diocouragement of Their Going to Brazil. MONTREAL, Oct. 17. —- The Brazilian consul and the agent of the steamship line running between Canada and Brazil have called upon R. W. Scott, acting Dominion minister of the interior, and urged the government to withdraw its opposition to Canadian emigration to Brazil, as they have made arrangements for taking an- other lot to Brazil. Mr. Scott replied that the government would do anything in its power to prevent Canadians leaving the country, and certainly would discounte- nance emigration to Brazil. Information received by the government bears out the prediction made at Montreal at the time of the departure of the Canadian emi- grants to Brazil. and in view of the avowed efiorts of the steamship line and of the Brazilian republic to secure another cargo of Canadians the publication of the fact that bogus promises were made and no preparation made to receive the emi- grants will serve as an effective warning to those who think of bettering their con- dition in Brhzil. Killed \Vhile Fooling. MARLBORO, Mass, Oct. 17.—J. R. Mc- Donald, 3 shoemaker, about 36 years of age, was found dead in a blood stained bed at his boarding place here today. Shortly afterward, Michael Cahill, also of this city, gave himself up. to the police, stating that while fooling with McDonald last night he accidentally cut MCDonald. Paderewski. NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—The rumor Chat Ignace J. Paderewski, the Polish pianist, had gone insane has been denied by his intimate friends in this country, foremost among whom is Mr. Charles F. Tretbar, who, when seen at Steinway hall, charac- terized the report as a hoax. Mack Briggs Again a. Winner. LONDON, Oct. 17.—Mr. Enoch Wishard’s American horse Mack Briggs won the Southfield Plate at. Newmarket today in a field of four starters Weather Forecast. Fair; slightly cooler; westerly winds. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Quotations of the New York Stock Exchange. NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-—Money on call firm at 6@6% per cent. Prime mercantile paper, nomi- nal’ly 8@9 per cent. Sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers" bills at 54.83% @4.84 for demand and 84.80%@4.81 for 60days. Posted rates, $£81l§@4.83 and 84.84%435. Commercial bills, $4.79M. Silver certificates, sales, $17,000 at 65%651w5c. Bar silver, 65%c. Mexican dollars, 50%0- Government bonds firm. State bonds dull. Railroad bonds firm. Closing prices: Atchison .......... 12% New England..... —— Bur. & Quincy... 68% N. J. Central...... 99 C., C., C. & St. L. 22 North American.. 4% Chesapeake &0.. 14 Northern Pacific. 13% Chicago Gas ...... 59% Do. pref ........... Cordage .......... . 4% N. Y. Central..... 90% Cotton Oi] ........ 14%, Omaha ............ 36 Ontario & West... 13% Pacific Mail....... 19 Reading........... 22% Rock Island....... 60% Silver Bullion..... 65% St. Paul........... 69% Sugar Refinery. ”107% Texas Pacific...... 7% Union Pacific..." 7% Wabash preL. 14 Western Union... 88 Del. & Hudson. . .122}§ Distillers" Trust... — Erie..... ..... 18% General Electric. % Hocking Valley.. 16% Laickawanna... . . .156 Lake Shore ....... 1441: Lead .............. 20 Louisville &. Nash 42% Missouri Pacific.. 19 Northwestern. . .. 99 General Marketa. NEW YORK. Oct. 16.—FLOUR-—State and western strong and hel higher, which checks demand; city mills pate ts, [email protected]: winter patents, [email protected]: city mills clears. W95; winter straights, [email protected].‘ WHEAT-No. 2 red opened strong and ex- cited on higher cables, eased oil? under realiz- ing, but again advanced at noon on continued strength abroad; December, 77%@79c.; May, 80%@81%c. CORN—No. 2 opened stronger with wheat and on export demand, later easing 06; ‘De- cember, 32@32%c.; May. 3%. OATS—N0. 2 quiet, but. firmer; December, We: track, white, state. 20@303§c. PORK-Firm: mess, $8.50@9: family, 310.50 @12.50. LARD—Firm; prime western Esteem, $4.60, ‘ 5 1mm; 7 nominal. BUTTER—Steady; state dairy, state creamery, 12@I9c. CHEESE—Quiet: state, large, 7@loc.; small, 7@10%c. EGGS—Steady: state and Pennsylvania, 200.; Western. “@189“. SUGAR-Raw quiet; fair refining, 23“.: can- trifugal, 96 test, 3c.; refined quiet: crushed, Ma: powdered. 66c. TURPENTINE—Firm; 29W. 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