San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-04-12
THE GLASS EYE.
A Young Nan Who Hssitstsd to hen''o" MS
Ocular Defect.

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confided in his future father-ln-law
who, to his surprise, received the IN
formation in highly amused manner.
I'll make it all right for you,my boy;
YOU initiate me exactly in anything l
do after supper tonight, and see how
good-naturedly Maria THAT was the
iady's nance will take it," According
| ly, as soon as the evening meal was
Concluded. the father looked at the
Young man and began to sing;
Oh, do you know the glass-eye man,
rho plass-eye man, the glass-eye man!
Oh, do You know the glass-eyo man
Who lives down our way!
And, as he concluded the last line, he
took out his left eye and placed it on
a plate in front of him. The young
man was very much astonished to
find his Maria father as unfortunate
as himself, while at the same time
it gave him courage to reply:
Oh, YES, 1 know the glass-eye man
Who lives down our way,
and he deposited his crystal optic on
the table. Maria was convulsed with
laughter at the proceedings, but her
future husband was ready to believe
all humanity one-eyed when she ire
bled forth
also know the glass-eye man
Who lives down our way,
and dropped her eye into glass OF
water by her side.
Frequent assaults and battery have
been made by sternly virtuous females
in cars on glass-eyed men. Only re-
Gently gentleman was enjoying the
scenery through the car window with
his natural eye, unaware OF the fact
that his glass-eye was staring straight
ahead at a maiden lady OF Sunday
school principles. She put up with
it for half an hour, and then got up
and, smashing his hat over his head,
called him a icentious william and
other complimentary epithets, and
was also prevented from scratching
his face by his timely retreat to the
smoking car under the supposition
that he was attacked by mad wo-
man.
Fifty years ago, when California
was under the dominion of Spain,
one-eyed commandment ruled at San
Francisco, who was the terror OF all
the Indians in the vicinity. A Yam
kee skipper travelling that way induced
the Spaniard to purchase one of the
then newly-invented glass-eyes of
him, and, to the fear and surprise OF
the redskins, the commandment sud
denly appeared with two eyes. This
was too much for the braves, so one
of their number was deputed to as
sassinate the senior. He managed to
gain across to his chamber, but, on
approaching the couch, was terrified
to find the commandant sleeping
with one eye closed and the other
wide open. The amazed Indian gave
an unealthly yell and threw himself
headlong from the window.
One of the most curious stories is
the case of a. supposed blind beggar in
Paris. This man was arrested for
some trivial offense, and, on his way
to prison, one of his eyes fell out on
the sidewalk. On being examined it
was discovered that for long time
he had been in the habit of wearing
two ingenious contrived porcelain
covers to his real eyes, which were of
a different color to the sham ones, and
he was at once recognized as crimi-
nal for whom the authorities had long
been in search.
A glass eye once figured in a civil
trial. An optician sued woman for
the value of an eye he had inserted
for her with the promise that she
would find it both ornamental and
useful. The woman declined to pay,
her defense in court being as follows:
Il have false teeth; 1 can eat with
them. 1 have false hair; it keeps my
head warm and is ornamental. 1 have
also false leg; l can walk with it.
But--taking her glass eye out and
it to the ground I can neither
see with my false eye nor is it an OBJ
ject of beauty" She gained her suit.
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