The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-09-13

! Over in st Paul mr, man with eye.
Of cadet hlue and terra Gotta nose fIis
eyes wcrc no, only peculiar 10 shape, In.
while ono seemed 10 constantly prol,e ,he
future. the ether Vas apparently ransAsk.
ing The dramy past While one ramhled
along the glorious possibilities oi The i.
mote yet golden ultimately. tho other
sought The sombcr depths Of the previous.
y. He told ne that years ago he had
mild case OF strabismns aud that both eye,
s"e'aei 10 glare do~a hi. nase ,ill Aa &c,
rcs,lcss and bad them operated 90. Those
werc the days when they used 10 fsstsn q
crooked hook under tho internsl rsctss
muscle and cut little with . pair of
optical sheep shears The effect II lbis
course was to allow the eye to drin back
TO direct lioe, but this man Tell into thu
hands ola drunken surgeon who cut tho
muscles too much and thereby weakened
IT so that II gradually swung past the point
u ought TO have stopped At aud hs saw
with horror that his cye was going 70 turn
out and protrude a. Il were that . man
could hang his hat on II. The other fol.
lowed suit and the two orbs that had for
years looked along the bridge Of the terra
Gotta nose, gradually separated. and whilo
one looked toward next Christmas with
fond anticipatons, the other loved 10 lin.
ger over the remembcroncos OF last fall.
This thing continued until he had 10 peer
into the future with his of eye closed and
rice re,sa. II ia needless 10 say that he
hungered for the blood OF that physician
and surgeon. He tried 10 lay violent
hands on him and wear him out across Q
telegraph pole. But the authorities al.
ways prevented tho administration Of tho
swift aud awful justice
Time passed on till ono night the abuor-
mally wall.eycd man loosened board in
the sidewalk up town so that the physic-
ian and surgeon caught his foot In II and
caused an obliqno fracture Of the scapula,
pied bis dura mater, busted his cornucopis
and wrecked his sarahbellum. Perhaps
am in error as to some OF these medical
terms and their photography, but that is
about the way the man with the divergent
orbs told II to me. The physician aud sur.
geon was quite ruin. He had TO wear
clapboards on himself for months, and
there were other doctors and laudable pus
aud threatened gangrenc aud doctors bills
with the cemetary looming mp 10 the near
future. Day after day he took his own
anti febrile drinks and lammed his busted
system full OF iron and strychpine aud
beef tea and dovers powder aud bypoder.
mic squirt until he wished be could die,
but death would not come. He paved the
mir and howled. They fed him his own
nuxvomiei, tincture Of rhubarb and pbos-
pilates aud grnel and brought him back
10 life with crooked collar bone, u shat.
Tered shoulder blade aud look OF woe.
Then lie sued the town for 100000 dam.
ages because the sidewalk was imperfect,
and the wild.eyed man with the infamed
nose got on the jury. will not explain
how it was done, but there was verdict
Ior defendant with costs on the Esculapian
wreck. The man with the crooked vision
IS not handsome. but he is very happy.
lie says the mill OF the gods grind slowly,
'nt they pulverize middling fine. Lara
ME boomerang.