The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-04-07
GUARD YOUR SECRETS.
There's Man IN Town Who Reads Them,
Wonderful Teats. ----

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Wonderful Tests. dta d
One OF the most interesting characters
whom II has been tho good fortune OF
the newspaper men Of this city to meet
in long time, is Mr.. ]. Randall Brown,
The world.famcd mind.reader, who is 10
give two Of his wonderful performances
at the Opera House on Monday and
Tuesday evenings. In appearance, Mr..
Brown is medium.sized, well.built,
rather pale, intellectual.looking man.
with head OF long.ilowing black hair,
and pair OF light blue eyes and a small,
light'colored mustachc. 1t would take
mind.reader to determine his age by
looking ut him, for his face Is us smooth
and fresh as youth OF %, while the
silvcry threads beginning to show in his
hair and nm expression about the eyes
would lead one to put him down rs be.
ing 40. Mr.. Brown says his age is s.!
lie has but lately returned from trip
around the world and his descriptions of
the experiences he has Ind in connect.
ion with the strange and mysterious
phenomena he possesses, and which he
himself is unable to satisfactorily OK.
plain, arc very interesting.
While i'll England, Mr.. Brown used
MIR. Gladstone as subject ut one time.
Tho experiment took place in the House
OF Commons in the presence OF members
of all shades Of political opinion. It
naturally caused considerable excite.
ment, especially rs Gladstone had ex.
pressed himself skeptic on the subject.
Think OF number" said the professor
to the great statesman, taking him by the |
hand. 81 have done so, was the answer,
"The first figure is g." said Brown.
Fright" "The next is G." "Yes."
Then there was some hesitation on the
part OF the thought-reader, who begged
Gladstone to concentrate his mind more
ilxedly on the next figure. II have
done co." said Gladstone. Brown
paused moment and then replied:
"The remaining figure is G and the total
is 3G6" Gladstone in a.tonislment
replied "Quite correct" "Now," said
Brown, twill you please tell me why YOU
thought Of 6 as the third figure and then
changed your mind?" "How do Won
know that?" asked Gladstone, staggered
by the question. "You forget that / am
4 thong ht.reader," said Brown with a
smile. "Well, it is quite true" replied
the premier, 81 did at first think of 3C5,
tho number Of days in the year; but
when you got the first two figures cor.
rect, ] thought you might guess the
other figure, SO, rememberingit was leap
year, immediately altered my mind to
36G. Even then you OWNED my
1t is certainly a most remark.
able performance"
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Brown said
in the course of conversation: "The
discovery of the wonderful faculty OF
mind reading was made by me when q
child, while walking hand in hand with
my companions. BY closing my eyes 1
could get knowledge OF what they
were thinking OF and sec what they saw.
This power seemed to grow on me, but
never put it to practical test until
about fifteen years ago when l was a re-
porter on the Chicago Inter. Ocean. The
managing editor OF the Erening Ne,rs was
in our office one day and proposed
test for me. After blindiolding me he
hid coin in book and placed it in q
case where there were several hundred
others. l then took him by the hand,
discovered the particular book and took
out the coin. After time took to piy-
ing public exhibitions OF this power.
zone OF the tests which l shall give OF
the Opera House here was suggested to
me by two members Of tho Yale college
faculty. They took their places in the
basement Of the Sheffield scientific
school building and went up to
lecture room on m upper floor. They
then held one end OF wire and the |
other, while they thought intcntly upon
certain things l was able to write
them down correctly on the blackboard |
in the lecture room. This test excited |
much interest and l made others for the
purpose Of determining, if possible, the
nature Of the phenomena. While in
New Haven DR.. George NJ. Baird, once
n writer for the Popular Science Monthly, |
an eminent man, attempted 10 explain |
away my demonstrations Oh the theory
that they were produced by al uncon.
sciOus muscular action on the part OF the
subject. issued challenge to him and
gave public performance in Music Hall
there before a large audience. A com.
mittee to supervise the tests was jointly
chosen by Dr.. Baird and myself. chose
some members Of the Yale faculty while
no selected number OF prominent
physicians OF Brooklyn and New York.
The test resulted in a report from the
committee in my favor and DR.. Baird
afterwards acknowledged that he was in
error. I was presented by the Yale
faculty with the gold watch carry"
EAnd as he said this Mr.. Brown took
from his pocket the watch. Upon the
inner cover is this inscription: Pre-
scented to j.. Randall Brown by the Fac
ulty OF the Sheffield Scientific School OF
Yale College, October %, 1874"
Mr.. Brown has given tests in Homo
lulu, Australia, Mexico, New Zealand,
China and Japan, and in all of these
nlarea ha has had amnainr nY narinnnaa