Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-24

I ElNle variety Rl HAAn IiH ANttAAA4f 1iIAAtltsi
diamond shape, or triangular; tack,
bralis. and buttons: some driven home
I TO the surface OF the board, others raised
. 0ne-tenth Of an inch above il; but all
telling their own story of red, green,
/ white or blue The board is ruled thus
Z with cross bar lines, and at every point
or intersection q small hole Is bored, into
which is Slipped mail with its head
I square, round or triangular, as the pattern
requires The boy reads his pattern
along the horizontal lines from left 10
right and according To the teaching of
the nails weaves in the gay scroll work
of brilliant c0iors as deity as if he saw
every tint"
Carious Notions OF the Blind.
"Touch, then, does much for the blind
boy, but brings him not a single grain
nearer to the discerning ofcolors. Where,
therefore, touch fails him, he can gain
little external help, and may presently
he altogether at sea. Things apparently
identical in form may differ in size;
may also totally differ in essence and IN
nature, and Of this difference he may be
wholly unconscious. He may form, and
does form, the most Ourageously lncor-
rect ideas on some common matters,
though he NAV continually amuse and
surprise you bv clever guesses, or CLEANS
Of what seems like intuition Du Pui-
seauX. the son of a professor Of philOsO-
nhv In the University Of Paris WAS in
some things one of the shrewdest men
of his day. having attained c0nsidera-
bic proficiency in botany and chem
istrT: but he was blind. He
had wonderful memory for sounds,and
could, it is said, recognize by their voices
persons whom he had only once heard.
He could ten IL he was in street or
blind alley, in a large room or a small
one but he believed that astronomers
were the only people who saw with tele-
scopes. ahd that they had their eyes diff
ferenuy formed from other men. Nor
was his notion about eyes in general 4
whit less incorrect. The eye said he,
rs am organ on which the air should have
the same effect a my stick ON my hand.
The boy upon whom Cheseiden operated .
for cataract had clearly been Of the same /
opinion. Even when restored to sight, l
be believed the objects he looked on,
touched his ewes, and those which he felt f.
touched MS skin; and he consequently 4
had no idea of distance He F.
asked (which was the sense that .
d-,-lfyed him. the sight or
the touch 81 He wondered how /
a Likeness of his fathers face could be got Z
into 30 small q space as his mothers .
watch case. &c seemed 90 him As impossible .
rs getting a bushel into "a pint measure. /
IL Is not to be wondered at therefore, I
that when some one asked Du PuiseauX
If be would not be very glad TO have his I
sight" he replied. IT it were not for [
curiosity. / would rather have long arms; 4
&c seems To me that my bands would .
teach me better what is passing I'm the .
moon than your eyes or telescopes and, /
besides the eyes cease TO see sooner than
the hands TO touch ] would, therefore,
he a. well 70 improve the organ ! have .
rs 10 give me the one / want Abundant .
evidence Of a similar kind might still be
ldduced. bat this seems enough 70 prove .
hat even among educated blind people .
there must be large section OF the .
physical and metaphysical world Of
which their idea Is to a great. extent .
vague and worthless
Hearing 81 the blind.
'.Nexr in Importance to the sense Of /
-ouch comes that of hearing. The blind
BOY knows the step Of his friend in a
rice, decides quickly OF even instantly
which way thaJ step IS moving and, If
g be coming towards him. exactly at
|
-ard 20 meet il. He viii even diztin-
uish certain foOtstep, at times, among
,thars, especially If It bo one that he
ither loves OF fears. Let as glance for a
n0ment into the basket shop in ST.
fa0rZe's Fields. II Is a large and lofty
oem twenty feet wide by one hundred
nd fly feet long, and IN IL are now at
york on basket making about lrty boys
Gd men. There is generally teacher,
vita sight, 81 either end Of room but
ne i now just gone % fetch SOME osiers
rom another part OF the building. Our
little friend TH1tter is at work h2if way
own the room, but mas met with SOME
rifing difficulty not TO be solved Wlth-
ut a teacner's help. The fifty boys and
reu are almost all talking as they work,
Z perhaps humming "a tune, or beating
heir uorE with a bar Of iron ana some
~ crossing the room IT. search Of tools
,eip Or advice 50 th3r, altogether
he scene IL ruu OF noisy lire, and
IS unlike a shop full of blind pe0- ,
Ie as NAV well De imagined. But (
D the mtdat u gl the noise Ir0lJar
it- quietly waiting; he knows that the {
Master went out Of the room five min ]
.tes ago he viii tel you he saw him 20, !
nd. th0uah several persons have sInes
oma IN AZ U48 zoos, lac knows that hls
eacner is not one Of the few. All at !
nee he starts mp as The door shuts with
banr-and the pupil walks quickly up ]
he room in a direct line, as ii he saw
be table at which his teacher now sits. (
Is he goes back % his place another per- ]
90 enters ly the same door, and makes ,
iis way hastily towards the other end
llt ha has not gone q dozen steps before I
80 H.r H.s.g .Ir..H
makers IS heard % whisper, "Herec0mes J
he chanlain." ." or There goes Brown
"er glance into The same room an
iouf later. aud Cus whole srene Is
hanged The bell has ruEg fer leaving A.,
-T Wg-k but as il Is a wet, winIry day,
aHe iiitE or sixty Of the pguiis are here
HLer shelter walking two Gudt~oi arm
n arm rruuG the ROOM Whistling, chat
iug singing, or shouting most upruar-
8usly-but all promenad'ng As methods
caBv. ani evenly, as If every one there
Iad slghL Eot g single boy ever strays
lut Of lis rank, no one runs ag9IEst his
IaighbG-; though, al the first glance, II
appears aEly Ike 9 noisy and can ,
used crowd There ARE three
i11r- Co the shop, one al either
md, and one il the center every two
aiuutes some boy darts out from tae
rowd, gr Tu7hss iu 10 join II, by that
middle door Gl. IL neither case does he
o-tie friend or foe. Here comes frurteF
iimselt he IS ID search M ss friend
Jones, who, driven In by the rain, left
lim ten minutes ago at the wing, and is
cow the solitary unit I'm tie long chain of
.oUpies. As tramp by tramp IL works It's
low way past the door where be stands,
Irotter, with his face al eve, watches
e rouuce ON his friend as he goes by.
.n spite 0f an the uin nr hears MIN when
.1me yards of, -eizes on his arm, as if
be saw il, passing and away they 20, to
Din steadily in that jolly, uubrokep F.
uarcir
HOE Diind Wan Secs.
"Our friend Trotter has just set OF in a
great hurry for that door way; he seizes
the handle, opens the door hastily,
shouts one or two hasty words, waits for
no answer. bat rushes Off again else
where. Ask him what this pantomime 4
means, and he win tell you That he was .
.u quest ofa certain trIO OF boys, who .
% meet him there and he I
lgOEelr into the club rooms and I
found that they were not phere /
AZ least he thinks not, as judging .
by the sound Of his own foot against .
the form ON WHICH lleF A-Na4lf Nllf ]
and of his own voice, the room /
seemed empty. And empty it really is. .
The well known story told by Mr. An /
Ierson ola blind messenger at Ediubug, I
entirely c0rroborates this fact had I
occasion he says, 3 TO send out one OF /
those blind men with a mattress. ] gave Z
him che bin with IT, that he might re- I
eeive payment. But. TO my surprise, he /
with the account and mattress 4
too. I've brought back bath, ye see, I
-ir.U said he. How so2'i " Indeed, sir, I
L didna like tleave't yonder else I'm 4
ql-e we wad meier see the siller-there's /.
nae q stick OF furniture within the d0Or"' Z
50 How do you come % know that - (
81 Oh. sir. twa taps on tine iooF WI my
stick soon teIpt me thatH And true /
enough was the blind mans guess; for |
yee-s it mast still be called, though In !
Both the cases cited il was shUewd enough /
to pass far Wit
Dream. Of she Bliaa.
Milton, Of course, having but just lost
his sight, dreamed precisely as other
men dream-the remembrance Of the