Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-24
NOTES AND QUERIES.


become temporary inmate of his own private
asylum for the half blind las there are public
asylums for half orphans and people who are
half crazy, he begins to experience some sen.
sations which are as curious as they are disa-
greeable. Shut up one eye, oh two-eyed
Reader, and see how near you can come to
determining accustomed distances-say, for
example, the distance between your breakfast
plate and your mouth, as measured by your
fork, if you eat with fork, or your knife, if
you eat with that weapon. Reach out for the
butter-dish or the sugar bowl, thus one eyed,
and see (or half see) how near you will miss
hitting it. For few times you will succeed
and wonder at your success, just as new be-
ginners win at cards or make good shots at
billiards and have no idea in the world how
they did it. Presently, when you reach out
for the salt you will fetch up against your tea
cup and cause an alarming catastrophe upon
the table cloth; and then, by miscalcula-
ton you will land a fork-full of scrambled
eggs in your lap or a piece of butter inside
your vest and upon your shirt. If you are a
profane man you will swear, inwardly or out
wardly, or what is more probable, (being in
the way of doing things by halves, you will
emit your objurgations in a vehement whis-
per. Now this Notary hath $50 to speak, his
right eye in a sling. Or. White has invalided
that optic under compress and certain en-
phatic i1junctions; and these lucubrations
must be cut short; for your loyal and obedi-
emit patient must mind his orders if he breaks
honors) The Constant Reader, dear patient
soul, is spared a disquisition upon Great
Moral and Physical Topic by these clinical
orders and this disability, and so he may be
the gamer. The fact is we intended to re-
vamp the prolific subject of Youthful Offend
ings, mainly called Hoodlumism, as suggested
by the arrest, on Monday of some lads who
are going at loose ends toward some eventual
tight lettering. But our half blindness
teaches the charitable thought of possibly i'm
perfect moral vision, and so Justice being |
blind and sympathetic we hesitate to form or
express any irrevocable and hard-headed |
opinions. One of these days we may "hire
hall" There is something to be said be
sure of that e. And now it is to be said
that these odds and ends must be given DER
for this one time and perhaps for blind eyed
day or two. The spirit of the Inquisitor is
willing but the flesh of the Notary is weak
..... Emerson in lecture on Literature said
something which might be related to dis
abled eye. What he said-and it is all de-
lghtful reading-is in part as follows Soon
slider that it is our own state of mind at any
time that makes our estimate of life and worth
If vow sprain your foot you will presently
come to think that nature has sprained hers,
everything begins to look so slow and inacces-
sible, and when you sprain your mind by
gloomy reflections on your evils and vexa-
tons, you come to have a bad opinion of life ,
Think how INDECENT nature must appear to '
the blind, deaf and the idiot Now if you
can kindle the Imagination by a new thought,
by heroic history, instantly you expand her
larger Music works miracle for those who
have an ear, poetry for another class good .
book that fits his taste will at once render this
service to every reader. Many times the 7
reading CT book has made the fortune of y
man, has decided his way of life. 1t makes .
friends, it is tie between men who have been
delighted with the same book Every one of
US is always in search of his friend, and when .
he finds person reading rare poet or thinker -
who is dear to him in solitude, it is like find =
ng brother. DIR. johnson, hearing of a man -
Who had reveled in Burtons Anatomy of II
said, "If 1 had known that 1
hould have Rugged him." We expect great
men to be great readers, for in proportion to 81
he spontaneous power should be the recep- VI
i've power Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked ~
nd forced to swim for life, did not gather his
old, but took his commentaries in his teeth :"
nd swan with them to the shore. Even the :,
gild and warlike Arab, Mohammed, said of
nen, "They are either learned or learning;
he rest are blockheads" The great Duke of al
could not 60 into camp without tn
shakespeare The Duchess D'Abrantes tells da
s of the first Bonaparte, that, in fastening OF
ut of France to join his army in Germany,
e tossed his journals and books out of his ",
aveling carriage as fast as he could read w
lem and strewed the highways with pamph- =,
is. Napoleon's criticism is admirable. He r
rites very we'll Witness it chiefly I should
", in his letters to his brother, the King of Jes