, 1900-01-13

II struck Win a Dfancn OF a thorn
bush.
1t is said that the prevailing colors
of eyes among patients of lunatic asy-
lums are brown or black.
The utility of shedding tears is to
keep the eyes cool though the balance
Of the head may be hot.
Eyes of any color with weak brows
and long, concave lashes, are indicative
of a weak constitution.
Cleopatra had blue eyes. She was
not an Egyptian, but a Greek, with yell
low hair and fair complexion.
Reptiles and fishes are not generally
provided with eyelids, these projections
being to them unnecessary.
Eyes that are wide apart are said
by physiognomists to indicate great in
telligence and tenacious memory.
Fishes are not provided with lachry-
NAL skins, their watery habitation rem
der these appendages unnecessary.
Eyes of which the whole of the iris
is visible belong to erratic persons, Of
ten with a tendency toward insanity.
A faxseed placed under the eyelid
and allowed to remain there frequently
removes foreign substances in the eye.
Blue-eyed cats are always deaf. The
psychologists have in vain attempted
to explain this curious circumstance.
The iris of the eye is rarely of one
color, but commonly notified with
black, blue. orange, yellow. gray or all
combined.
Eyes placed close together in the
head are said to indicate pettiness of
disposition, jealousy and a turn for
fault finding.
Lines are more easily e e than
small squares. A line %1-490Oth of an
inch thick can be easily seen by an I'M
aided eye.
Wide-open, staring eyes in weak
countenances indicate pe%rtinacity with
out irmness, jealousy, bigotry, and in
tolerance.
Elizabeth of England had large. clear
blue eyes, with a habit of looking side
ways at people with whom she was
~conversing.
Nero had bullying, near-sighted eyes.
He used a small gem in the shape of a
lens to observe the gladiators in the
amphitheater.
Many kinds of fish see equally well
in every direction, their eyes being so
prominent as to command a wide field
Of vision.
Frederick the Great had eyes of a
clear blue. One of his biographers
compared the lusters of his eye to that
Of polished steel.
Many creatures of the lowest orders
of animal life are provided with eye
spots, which probably give only an
impression of light.
The vision is not obscured by the
act of winking, which takes place so
quickly that the outer image remains
impressed upon the retina.
The common leech is said by natu-
ralists to be provided with from two
to ten true eyes, having all parts in
comparative perfection.
In ancient Greek art Venus was al
ways represented with the upper eye
lid arched, imparting a languishing ex-
preston to the countenance.
The eye is protected from dust and
foreign substances by the eyebrows and
eyelashes, in which a considerable
amount of dust will accumulate during
the course of a days travel on a high
way or in the railroad cars.
Several species of jelly fish are pro-
vided with y spots-that it, rudi-
mentary eyes-which probably give no
more than an impression of light.
Many specimens of worms and the
larvae of insects are not provided with
eyes. Their habitation being in the
earth. eyes to them would be useless.
1t seldom happens that both eyes are
exactly alike. An examination with a
magnifying glass usually discovers
many differences between the two.
When the under arch of the upper
eyelid is a perfect semicircle it is in
dicative of goodness, but also of timid-
ity, sometimes approaching cowardice.
Scientists who nave made a study of
the eye say that a flash of light lasting
40-1 900, 600, 000ths of a second is quite
sufficient for distinct vision.
The eye which when open presents
a long acute angle to the nose invari-
ably indicates comprehensive under
standing and great intelligence in its
possessor.
All men of genius are said to have
eyes clear, slow moving and bright.
This is the eye which indicates mental
ability of some kind, it does no. mat
ter what.
Mary Stuart was not exactly cross
eyed, but n eye was much more NOV
able than the other, thus producing the
effect Of a slight cross or cast in her
vision.
Blue eyes are generally considered
effeminate, but this is a mistake, for
for blue eyes are found only among
Caucasian nations, and the white races
rule the world.