Show THE IMMORTAL J N brost picturesque of characters goes to asylum As a boy ho he could speak thirteen languages mind unhinged by a great criminal trial has been insane fifty years jacob nowman newman freo tho immortal J N has reached tho end of his travels ile iio was finally adjudged lasane labane and will spend tho the remainder of his flays days in tho state hospital of toledo ile ho la Is now seventy eight years yeara old thus passes a ch character ameter known in every sizably town in every state I 1 in n abo hc west for more than halt half a century he lived as the birds live no town or state could claim him as aa its own in each ho was at home and among friends it Is his claim and it is not disputed that ho he knows moro people personally than any other living man vor for fifty years lio ho has travelled up tip and down and across tho the country riding free on nearly every railroad and living without expense in the best ho he the towns ho he visited afforded 11 H on oil every railroad rath ond still EMU in his possession aro are a hundred sit blips ps reading good for J N ills most treasured possession Is a slip of 0 paper signed by the leading officials or many of the biggest railroads in the country it reads tho the immortal 3 1 N pass him forever foro vcr good on all roads from now until doomsday hotel men in the towns ho he visited did aid as ag much ile ho was never known to havo more than a few cents at a time lint but in the fifty years of his wanderings few landlords hayo bayo been bold enough f R of X it im I 1 z TUB THE HORSE IS A PASSENGER ON THIS CARI CAR I to present him with a bill it Is recorded that a once offered to throw oft half tho the bill when lie ho learned guests identity tho the im JV JN J V gl glared Arod aitho at tho landlord then declaring ho would allow no ono one to outdo him in generosity and said bt t would throw off the othar halt lie ho seldom stopped in cities of more than population believing that in the largo large cities hla his personality would be bo lost loot thero there aro are fow newspaper offices in tho the country outside of 0 tho the largest cities where ho he Is not well known somo ye years ars ago lie ho travelled all over tho the country ransacking tile tho files of newspapers for his own obituary ile iio has been reported dead moro more than once ile ho la Is an apostle of truth pressure and keeper of tho the secret of tho the veil for forty years ho he has been promising to lift tho the veil and put on the pressure wherever rover ho stopped in tho the course of his migrations his first announcement was that men called him crazy find and that ho he was about to put tho the pressure on this pressure was waa some mysterious force which ho he alono alone ho he believed prevented from crushing out of existence all tho the life of this continent no ono one has over ever doubted that lio ho was insane ho he himself boasted or of it IL but ills his Is an insanity that up to now inspired only friendship and sympathy but behind his insanity and his fifty years of aimless wandering over tho the country Is a tragic story mind unhinged by blow in his youth lie ho was an infant phenomenon no menon at four years of age ho he read almost all of the bible and during his teens ho he acquired a reading aud speaking knowledge of no less than thirteen languages during tile the gold craze in 49 ho he wont went west and started a stage line within two years lie ho had accumulated a fortuno fort urto of A partner robbed him and then J N moved back to ohio and began the study of law within a few years ile ho stood at the top of tho the bar of cincinnati ono day ho he was defending a murderer in whose innocence lie ho strongly believed As a result of his eloquence the wb was acquitted tho the same lay day his client confessed that lio ho was guilty ili J N rushed lack back to tho the courtroom rind and started to explain but the strain and excitement had been too much or him ile he was stricken with apoplexy within a short time lie recovered ills his physical health but never ills his mental polso poise |