Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-03-11
TIE FAMOUS EYE-wATER,
A Compound that Keats Col. Sellers Ores
Remedy All Out Of Sight.
New Yorkrimss

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A Compound Ihn Keats Col Sellers. C,esa
| Kennedy All Out Of Sight.
New York Times.
For ways that are dark and tricks
that are not vain the Yankee peddler
can give the heather Chinee points
A bright young fellow who was driv.
en- not long ago to travelling country
roads with q basket oyer his arm,
selling aiittle article on which there
was just trife over 1000 per cent
profit, fell in, down in the wilds q
New Jersey, one day, with one %
these interesting specimens "Thst
man." said the young fellow, 'staughs
me more about peddling in the few
days We travelled together than / ~.
er knew before. He could turn ,
| Jack. knife into horse and wagon.
Late one afternoon we were making
for q little tavern, kept by an elderly
woman, where We intended to pass
the night. The Yankee, as we passed
little pile of pebbles, stopped down
and picked up two white ones, one
about twice as large a. the other. i
am going to pay for my supper and
lodging said he, with these two
pebbles He put them into his pook.
et,and thought no more about them
till, after we had eaten our supper,ws
were seated in front of q comfortable
fire--the Yankee, the lsndlady and /.
He was . spectacle peddler, and car
ried his wares in little green boz.
He had charming habit of saying
to people whenever he got chance,
your eyes are in pretty bad way.
They won't last you long, He sais
this to the landlady, and she replied
that she was afraid that was true, for
they had been troubling her q good
deal lately.
Then the spectacle-man brought
out the larger of his two pebbles.
Look at that; madam said he
What do you think OF that?"
"The landlady said she thought 10
looked like any other white pebbles
that could oe picked up anywhere.
The spectacle man, laughing at tho
poor woman's ignorance, said if she
could pick up few stones like that
she'd soon make her fortune. 1t was
a genuine eye-pebble imported from
Germany. Il make an eye. water frcm
those pebbles, said ne, that strength.
ems the eye and restores the failing
sight That stone will dissolve to
nothing in ten minutes in salt and
water The old lady was iacredu-
lous, and for some time nothing moro
was said about it. Presently she
asked SIS that eye~water of yours
very expensive?' No. he said mot
very expensive 'Then,' said she, Il
guess I'll have to get you to make
me bottle of it.
The peddler told her to bring in 8
tumblerful of lukewarm water, with
tablespoonful of salt in it, and q tea
spoon. The articles were soon
brought, and The pedler dropping
tho larger pebble into the glass. be-
gan to stir it with the teaspoon
with great elaboration. For fully
FIVE minutes he continued to stir,
tbs pebble of course, sho wing no sign
of dissoving.
Il thought" said the old lady
shat that there little stone would
dissolve"
at does seem q little stubborn.
that's q fact" said the spectacle
man, "but the trubble is you haven't
pnt IN quite enough salt. Just gst
me teaspooniul more salt and 10
will soon be ali right" The old
lady left the room to get the salt,
and the peddler quickly whipped the
larger pebble out Of the tutnbler,
and dropped in thes mall one.
81 declare" said she, when she
returned and saw the diminished
alter liHpshbIe. "it is taken hold
the spectacle man, looking very wise
and pouring in the remainder of the
salt, "it will BIO ready now in abus
Eve minutes, and you better have Q
bottle handy to put it 10, for 10
spoils it 20 stand in the air. ~
.rrhe landlady had him this time.
for the bottle was standing on the
mantle shelf. II was necessary 70
get her out of the room once more 70
remove the little pebble, SO be asked.
Haven't you colored glass bottley
No, she said, she hadn't one in tbs
house. Then said he, you had
better paste some dark paper around
this one, for the light weakens the
eye water, and In time spoils it."
The old lady went out in the kitchen
to hunt some thick paper, aud ou1
came the pebble. The eye watse
was made.
Grub your eyes we'll with this
three times day." said he, as he
corked the bottle, sand by the next
.ime l come around you'll have
new pair of eyes in your head"
"Next morning, as we were about
to pay our bills, the landlady inquired
how much she owed for the eye wa
ter.
at will be dollar for the pebble,
Just what it costs to import them
from Germany" said he. 81 won't
charge you anything for making it,"
A dollar was just what he owed
the hotel. He and the landlady were
square.
A YOUNG man preparing for the