Evening star., 1896-01-04

the present time the first impression a
swiftly moving object makes upon the eve
Is continued on 1t for an indefinite time
even after the body itself has long stopped
moving. This may not be a perfectly clear
explanation to those who do not understand
the exact nature Of his case. so, to make IL
PLAIN, viii give few instances, numbers
OF winch, OF course, occur every day
Not long ago he was one day watching
cat out in the yard. as IL was attemptina
to creep upon q bird. When close 10 its
prey the cat suddenly made a spring. and
then, according to his way of viewing tt.
the feline kept right on sailing through the
AR as Tar as his eye could reach, and was
at last lost In the blue distance And vet
ing down on the ground at the end of per-
maps half minute, he saw the cat iuet
where 1T had really landed
Except in few cases he is rarely ever
deceived by this strange id'osyncrasy Nor
is there ever an illusion with stationary OBJ.
1ects moving ordinarily slow. There must
pe sudden movement to put In motion
this curious freak Of his optics. One MORN
ihg ne saw one of his neighhors walk up to
tence and spring up into the air to jump
over 1t. He was rot surprised when he
saw him go shooting on up through the
pure, pure e.her % above, He watched him appar-
entity about minute until he was lost to
sight amid the clouds that hoated over
mead. And yet, at the end of the fllusory
period. he saw his ne!ghbor right side up
with care on the other side of the fence
AS he explains 1t, it seems to be a kind OF
reverfe that the eye falls into on these CO.
casions, and which, when IL fades ayay.
generally In about minute or less time.
leaves the real object and its real position
folks ~
One afternoon he was watching soma
poys at play In the road. One of them, q
very active little fellow, took a running
start and turned a somersault; and them
ne saw what no other man, perhaps has
ever seen. Down that road the little fell
low Went over and over on hands and rect.
turning somersaults after somersaulta IN
endless succession. For about half a mile
he watched the youthful acrobat as he
went spinning over the hills and far away
IL was peculiar and amusing thing to
see this boy go whirling down the road
with such ease and rapidty. He did not
alarm himself about him. however for
when the speh was ended he saw the little
fellow playing In the sand with his com.
panions. What becomes of the true image
when his eye falls into this strange reyerie
ne does not know; the fiction or fantasy
seems to monopolize the whole scope OF hia
vision for the short time that IL lasts
He says he has lots of sport sometimes
when he goes out rabbit hunting Very
otten he delights in all the excitement and
pleasure OF a chase for a long time af.ar
common-eyed hunters have ceased to en-
JOY 1t For instance, he went out the other
day with friend and a couple of good
dogs In large. open field they jumped a
rabbit, and it started across the field with
the dogs close behind. In reality, II was
only few moments before they had
caught and killed it; but to him they Kept
right on in hot pursuit clear across the
held and into the woods beyond. 1t was
intensely exciting, and he was clapping his
hands and shouting to the dogs, while his
amazed companion with the rabbit In his
hand and the dogs by his side was won-
dering II he had gone crazy. Thus when
ever he goes out, he always has the pleas
ure OF long and exciting chase. There ID
only one inconvenient thing about it. how.
ever. and that is, he never enjoys seeing
the dogs capture the prey.