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WEEKLY.
OLUME VI.
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What memories rise
M to the sunny skies,
Seven she opens 'fore your eyes _
she did shove in
lose delicious pumpkin pies.
lirer to the heait of man>
orldly bliss-in pumpkin pies.
larter. half, the whole, oh. give it;
‘ould 'an dwell such in bliss as this, and live it
hour I
ti forevermore wis
te confinefhold a fair witch in,
shancefy g hincing-'from 7rdtt her eyes,
Free Press.
EYES AND THEIR AILINGS.
Many People Wear Glasses—Color
Iness and the Blind Spot.
me walks along the streets of a
city, he would be stupid indeed
iled to notice the large and ap
lly increasing number of people
■rear glasses for defective vision,
lumber I-’, of those who do not wear
but whose vision is nevertho
fcfective, is as large, which if not glasses larger;
[cross-eyed rule do not people, improve; the color
| whom science is powerless to
[together with the sufferers from
anti conjuntivitis and the other
lofitis; 1, those afflicted with lids, cat- and
all with granulation of the make
the forms of sore eyes,
[my so large that those persons
do not have at least one game eye
r ery rare indeed. He who can
ir an eye diseased, with greater or
access, always charge command lie ever so highly,
he attend more patients
can to.
jommon notion among uneducated
le. whose eyes are in good condi
V s th::t people have no use
passes, and that they wear them
tol ' st y| e ‘ To those who are
, iS
Jt rG '
f eo ( 1 t iat they wear a
unT eek . “5? See lf
to the moon
t bi i/ilv &I rv rh ; mven 6 m V mnof mU T:l th° y
v ^ f"
Iwll e neccss toi S r’h Tin
liffhatVrJan li trsnhc k at vf i / ,Ck v° ff ° r ^ m ‘
to to'all^ a '® PS aie
domination lE !t
U Ln Je h h™ iSned A l °T' gl J t
fcuratelv litsfoScenWin fitted man y -tiTvf
a I im f \
[lass rof stick/ the eve The ilnm' °# } he
U Ions hisnmeinaatalmo th at HeP tMe rent.
MvableanTe’s a* he can with ^hi I** &
bs fret the ears Thl am/wP-Jtf t, 1U ?°-^ bnd ge ed
e glasse!/for nose raw Xm ““T 1h , W01,id
1 Iry corsets^ vould wear ? eai
and
ei}b°dy w h° iiy e3 long enough has
is as follows:
lack dl e pupil illiterate of the eve,
as ° conceive
p r -°iein the
5 lt little eye as an oculist con
> >s a bit
toT hnfJ A? h J S s ? ? Ieand place an When elastic liga- Sb
o be looked ‘ the
el at is at a distance, the
.tic S!L ep ffies a k nd out the h^ament, and flattens which the
\Vk !i? e ob j ect be
at hand to se en is
near musc le contracts, the
rr :f ses t0 strain
h bp n ly upon the lens,
!tW; g ]e ' llke and elastic, tries
.‘n/° , a lobular shape. As
I kanlT* ao-e 0n this lens becomes
fcobn& lej 0l p’ ot so s P that rin g magnifying back into
J)-,,., , 10 he added
of am, to get the im
be ret’if, n ar , °h.i ec t focussed clearly
TZSX&SLnj? more “ He lens be omesmore £
loped ic? I* e 611 un lt; .til is cataract is fully
a ';on. out.” t}',.’ 6 ls - .opened read y and for the the
l ;ut Th 6 P at ' t dis
v then n^i eil can see
the g] ^ the objects in focus
Pairs as 16 Wears tienerally
are J ‘
use ? ne to r a distan
one f 0l . a dlI1 e
•G are said t„ . o and working.
“ e v<1 > from whk| IUOre br;1Iiant to
-
1 remove ! 1 a eatara.-t has
r ,, he band of
ra t l b nianv
: r ^m bv T med on the wall of a
through J '' am of sunlight
- 11 a a prism, there pas
are rays be-
Independent in All Things.
CONYERS, ROCKDALE CO.. GA., JANUARY 18, 1884.
yond the violet which are invisible to
most people, but affect It is said photographer’s
sensitive paper. that persons
who have had the lens of their eyes re¬
moved can perceive these ultra violet
ravs.
The gradual change in the eye as
age comes on is perfectly natural and
is no disease, but short-sightedness is a
disease of the eye. By constant strain¬
ing of tne eye to see fine type or Ger¬
man or Greek letters, badly lighted
school-rooms, together with insufficient
or improper food, the shape of the eye
becomes changed; it lengthens from
front to back, and the rays of light
which ought to come to a focus in the
back of the eye, focus a little way in
front of the back. A concave glass is
used to correct this defect by lengthen¬
ing the focus so that it falls exactly on
the right place. lengthened Sometimes it happens
that an eye is in one axis
more than another, so that there is a
ridge, so to speak, the across the eye.
Then in that axis patient is near¬
sighted and in the other axis his eye
will be correct. People who have this
defect are in the habit of turning their
head on one side to see an upright ob¬
ject plainly. A telegraph p ole always f
looks crooked to them. I t is only
within a very' few years that discovered. a remedy
for this defect has been A
glass ground cylindrically—that is, as
though it were a section of a cylinder
instead of one of a sphere, lifted as ordinary
spherical glasses are—is to the
patient’s eye at the proper angle, which sim¬
is determined by looking at figures
ilar to these:
\ /
/ \
If on looking at these dashes with one
eye the reader discovers that the per¬
pendicular dashes are blacker than the
horizontal, or vice versa, he needs a
cylindrical glass for that eye, set at an
angle to be determined by seeing which
dash in the wheel is the blackest. This
defect is called astigmatism, and is be¬
ing discovered to be quite common.
The most valuable instrument to the
oculist was discovered b, man who
was not au oculist, there was con
s :derable discussion among the scien
Gsts of German v as to the cause of the
n , d i; „. ht emanating from the eyes of
an j mab! and men in a dark room. One
mau d i SC0V ered that the light was only
v i s ible when directly on a level with
and in front Q f the eye.
Helmholz took a small concave mir
and scratched the silvering oil the
back so as to make a little allowed peep-hole the in
- t A beam reflected of light was back into the on sub
mirror and
- ect - and Helmholz could look
trough the little peep-hole and see the
interim- of the eve. He thus found out
that the light was reflected from the
red surface of the retina of the eye,
but he also discovered an instrument
without which oculists would be very
much handicapped, has a invented young man,
named Ned Lor ing, a very
valuable adjunct to the opthalmascope, various
by which little lenses of powers
and kinds are moved over the little hole
in the back of the mirror so that the
opevator can see what glasses are need
el by the owner of the eye. When the
eye i's incorrect the retina appears of a
,f ull red w hich becomes distinct when
the right glass is used. An ivory indi
d ; cator shows the number of the glass
used by the operator. Various diseases
can be detected by the appearance of
the retina of the earn. Affections of the
kidneys, tumors and hemorrhages of
the brain can be told from the color of
the retina.
In nearly the center of the retina is a
round spot of lighter color than the
rest. This is where the nerve enters
the eve, and is supposed to be what is
called “the blind spot.” This following peculiar
spot can be detected by the
figures: t
©
Close the left eye, hold the newspaper
oft’ at arm’s length and look steadily at
the round dot. Bring the paper nearer,
and when a few inches from the eye the
dancer will disappear. The rays of
light coming from it fall upon the blind
spot, and are not perceived. that is
Color blindness is a defect
quite common, although those afflicted
with it may go years without discover
ing it. Strange as it may seem, red
and green, the colors most easily de¬
tected by the normal eye, are very fre¬
quently confounded. Man}’ people in
this city are unable to toll the ripe cher¬
ries on*a tree from the leaves except by
the shape and size. Colors are toe. \\
these people more by the intensi.y o
the lio-ht than from the hue. 1 el mv is
a color that no one seems unable to
perceive, although red is sometimes
called yellow bv the color-blmd bav
ao-es perceive only the more vivid col¬
ors, and the percentage of color-blind¬
ness among the colored children is tar
greater than among the white, inere
is no known remedy for color-blindness,
nor is there a known cause. Dalton,
who first discovered the defect and waa
himself thus afflicted, supposed the it to but be
due to a colored liquid in eye,
dissection after death failed to support
his hypothesis, as his eyes were appar¬
ently in perfect. There was a deficiency
the brain directly over and between
the eyes,which all the color-blind have.
Artists, whose perception of color is ex¬
foreheads traordinary, have unusually prominent
at that point .—Cleveland Her¬
ald.
Rock Formations on Lake Superior.
The famous Pictured Rocks of Lake
Superior annually attract to the south
ern shore of that mighty body of water
vast_ numbers of tourists from every
portion of the Republic and from Eu
rope. The cliffy border of the lake is
of sandstone interlaid with strata of
gravel; and stretching along the shore
at a point beginning at about one hun
dred miles from the Sault Ste. Marie,
and ending at a point sixty miles from
Marquette, are the Pictured Rocks. The
entire panorama, if we may thus call it,
is in Schoolcraft County, Mich., and the
curious formations have been named by
French voyagers, tourists and chance
comers. Not altogether appropriate or
euphonious are these titles: La Cha
pelle, Grand 1 ortal and The Cascade;
o the native guide, however, these are
known as ‘‘The Great Door’and “The
ChapeL ’ Less prominent in the series
is “Sail Rock,’ a fallen mass of lime
stone which bears so close a resemblance
to a schooner under full sail, and head
ing for the cliffs, that ghostly a passing stranger
might well hail her skipper, if
he beheld her in the dark, and warn him
against the dangerous coast. The Grand
Porta) gives into a cave worn into the
massive ledge of limestone. The cave and
widens slightly from the entrance,
is one hundred and eighty feet wide at
its amplest part, an d four hundred
feet Jong. The floor is the crystal
wave, except in the back part, where
the rocks are exposed, explorer and afford From a,
firm footing for the
the wateiy floor to the arched roof
above, the height varies from one hun¬
dred and fifty to two hundred feet. The
sweep of this arch is well-nigh looks perfect
in its symmetry; and as one out
upon the surface of the lake from the
rear, the effect of the exterior picture,
framed as it is in the rocky curve The of yel¬ the
portal, is striking and novel.
low sand-stone drips with there moisture, with
and is festooned here and
close-growing mosses and lichens that
darken with olive greens and grays the
stony surface. The side entrance to
this wonderful cave is flanked by
rocky columns of an remind exaggerated
Egyptian type. They monoliths the of
traveler Thebes and of the Karnak; gigantic to a more
or, use
commonplace figure, they are Titanic
hour-glasses in shape, the lower mem
bers being partially “evening, submerged when in the the
crystal tide. At
rays of the setting sun light up the sur
face of the lake, and the colors of the
sunset are diffused throughout the play at
mosphere, the reflections that
along the inner walls of the cave, and
gild with strange beauty the glistening bit of
roof, make the place seem like a
fairy-land.
The Chapel so closely resembles the
ruin of some ancient temple that it is
difficult to resist the idea that this is
the work ot men’s hands, rather than
the result of centuries of action by wind
and wave upon the friable rock. Seen
from the beach, where the outlines are
partially concealed by the thickets, one
may fancy that here are Hindoo the gloomy
portals of some crumbling tem
pie, or the outer columns of the caves
of Elephanta. The dome, which is
deeply concave, is a solid mass of sand
stone one hundred and ninety feet long
and sixty feet wide. In the rear, and
on the eastern side, it is supported has by
the cliff, into which it, the cave,
been hollowed, and on the front and
west by huge columnar masses, resem
bling in contour the supports of the
vaults of The Portal. A few of these
masses stand out from and the general them,
structure, so to speak, one of
west of The Chapel a few feet, is about
eirrhty feet in height from the surface of
the water. The Pictured Rocks are
stained with the wash of mineral oxides,
and the hues prevailing are a greenish- old
blue, pale blue, verdigris and innumerable green,
gold, pale yellow, and
shades of brown gray.
The Cascade is a brf S h, sheet «I w.
ter, about thirty feet wide which falls
Sat? harTug "S hfigf. o, tTC
gSo/of dred and sevehtv-«re i'eet. The vjich pro
ihe the cliff from so^yhat the lip of
cascade spriugs i, a
meins behind \he fall and Between jt
and the rocky shore. It is the custom
of guides to invite those who do not
d °ad a slight shower to paddle around
betwixt the cascade and the cliff-a
proceeding entirely safe, provided the
slight bark of the adventurer is man
■if^d with a steadr headlands, hand. Prom bright the
( aseade numerous in shape,
... th co i or and fantastic are
i(rht aud the eve may linger long
and delightedly on the unique panorama and
that is spread‘out. on either hand,
-m’rrored in the transparent wave that
ho’ds the picturesque shores in its em
brace — Harper's Weekly.
“That’s AU Eight.”
It occurred in the winter of '81-82,
at Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming, Territorial
He was a member of the
wTS
K.'Tttl'SSSrWlStSS worthy
the term, and, like most of his
colleagues, had spent some money dur
ing the time. He hadn’t spent any
great amount of cash either for that
matter, but had used his cheek so often
that it had become as tough as a board
ing-house flapjack. who He put the up Railroad with a
landlord Jones, ran
his House Havanas at that and time, coffin-varnish and bought at most Luke of
Murrin’s. Murrin always a" kept the
“best,” and Smith was connoisseur
when it came to cold poison. Singular
ly enough, too, his bill at Murrin’s was
about one hundred dollars m ire than
he owed for board at Jones’, but either
of them would buy Senator Tabor three
or four pair of suspenders with jeweled
buckles.
A dav or two before the final adjourn
ment Smith called for his bill at Mur
rin s, and after glancing carelessly over told
the formidable array of figures
Murrin that Jones mine host of the
Railroad Hotel, owned him a little more
than what the bill amounted to. lie
would tell Jones to make it right with
him. Of course Murrin knew that
Jones was good for the amount, and
with a “That’s all right, what’ll you
have?” the subject was dropped. Jones
That evening Smith told to
look over his books and see how much
he had set down opposite Murrin his owed name. him
This done. Smith said
a few hundred on a stock deal; would
he just as lieve collect the amount due
him?
“That’s all right,” said Jones, “Mur
rin’s good for any amount.”
“ Well, ‘the day of parting gathered came,
and, of course, all the “boys”
at the depot, which was really the Rail
road Hotel, to bid the law-makers
good-bye. Smith was there, and,
catching hold of Murrin’s arm, he
said, We pleasantly: might just well in
“ as go now
and fix that matter up with Jones,
eh?”
“ Oh, that’s all right,” it understood, said Murrin.
“ Well, but I want you
know.”
“Come in,” and Smith hauled Mur
rin through the crowd of worshipers
w ho thronged about the shrine of
Bacchus to where Jones stood.
“ You remember that matter I spoke
to you about the other day —when eh?” I
referred you to Murrin hi ere,
asked Smith,
“ Oh, yes,” said Jones. “That’s all
right.” And you,” said Smith, turning to
“
Murrin, “you understand it, don’t
you?” Certainly,” answered Murrin;
“
“ that’s all right.” it’s fixed. Let’s
“Well, I’m glad
take something.”
They bowed their heads as the pre¬
siding deacon passed the fluid. Then
the conductor shouted: “ All aboard!”
and everybody made a rush for the
cars. As the train left the depot Smith
stood on the rear platform waving a
soiled napkin at his friends,
Murrin and Jones walked into the
bar-room together, and, lighting last- a
cigar, began a conversation which
e d a full hour. Finally said: it began to
drag, and at last Jones
<< j suppose that little matter of
Smith’s can be fixed up any time?”
“Ho hurry—no hurry, my boy,” re¬
^pef] Murrin. “That’s all right.” said
Jones looked up inquiringly, but
no thing. They talked stock for fifteen
m i nu tes, and then Murrin abruptly re
marked:
“ Good fellow r , that Smith.”
“ Yes; jolly good boy. Funny he
didn’t have the cash to settle his bills
when he left. Must have had a rustle
with King Pharaoh.”
“ But the arrangement made was
satisfactory?” that’s all right. What’ll
“Oh, take^” ves;
you touched
After they had glasses over
the walnut slab and threw their heads
back to inspect the frescoes on the ceil
J*■»”*£ J,,. ‘Ed kSch™ b“k'lf ’ hS
'Oust send the check for the a m o„h,
of Smith’s bill up to the ho.ne any
00^.14 ’
, spil ^ “oh O rs to
Smith iis owes mei you agr.
P a } instead of him.
‘Agreed, the dickens. Why, Colonel,
pay the man it- DidnT owes me, you say and it-was you all agreed right?” to
“ And didn t you say you d pay me,
that it was all right.
A flood of light began their to pour in on
the subject, illuminating lights the cramums
as a tallow candle up interior
of a hallow-e’en pumpkin. Jones
handed out the same bottle once again,
and the only sound heard for several
seconds was that of some liquid cours
ing ite way along a narrow and tortuous
channel —Leramie Boomerang.
NUMBER 45.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
-Ex-Senator Randolph, of New Jer
gey, devoted all his yearly salary to
charity.
-A.rpiow recency S! ar,cd in India
.
*?*>?**» »«-'-«* Enropn an§
meuca "
—Sojourner Truth’s real name—or
that which had been opven to her by her
first master—was Isabella Hardenburg.
— N. Y. Sun.
_Congressman Lanliam, of Texas,
represents a district of eighty-seven
coun ties, some of which are as large as
Massachusetts. ‘
Miss Winnie Hall, of lempie, „ lex.,
admits that she is the oldest old maid
in Amerfca, if not in the wide world,
She was °. ne hundred years old the other
da Y- Chicago Herald.
—Fine bust portraits of President
Adams and Van Buren have been recov
ered from the garret of the White
House, by President Arthur’s order, and
hung up in the Red Parlor,
_ Mrs . George Bancroft, the wife of
tbe venerab i e historian, reached her
eightieth ” birthday recently. Sheisde
Re ibed as a very pretty lady, wonder
full iVi well tfiar, pres erved, and, indeed, much
i 1 „. 1 1 w her hii<ih-in<l
—The volume of voluminous speeches
ai ) d eulogies of the late Senator ben
Hill, authorized by the Legislature of
Georgia, has at length been issued lour
thousand, copies for the use of the Sen
ate and^eight thousand for the use of the
House.
—Mr. Carlisle, the new Speaker of
the House of Representatives, domestic relations. is most He
happy in his
defers in everything to his genial and
dignified wife, and frankly acknowl
edges his obligations to her for the
success of his public career. Their
home in Covington is proverbial .—Chicago for Her- hos
pitalit.y and good cheer
aid.
—Long Branch, N. J., is the resi¬
dence of Jason Butler, aged wife, one who hun¬ is
dred and live, and his
ninety-three, Mr. Butler proudly of
claims to be represented in all parts
the world, as he has one son doing sailor mis¬
sionary work in G’hina, another a
now whaling in the Pacific, grand-daugh¬ a grand¬
child in England, and a
ter married to a trader in ltio de Janei¬
ro, Brazil.
HUMOROUS.
-It is observed that, no matter how
averse a man may be to walking, he
never takes kindly to riding a rail.
—“Yes ” said Dadofallowski, “I al¬
ways think of a physician when I see
one of those horrid gin mixtures.”
“ Make you sick?” “Oh no, but it’s a
fizz I shun .—Boston Post.
—Cheeky passenger: “Any fear o’
my disturbing going the magnetic compass?” currents.
Captain, by near the
Captain: “Oh, no, sir. Brass has no
effect on it whatever, sir.”— Punch.
—A member of the New York Pho¬
netic Club writes to this able and. in¬
fluential journal, asking us to “drop
the final ue in words so ending, and
spell dialog, epilog, etc., etc.” Well,
we kick. We are willing to drop the
le to a limited extent, but when the
New York Language Club asks us to
spell glue, gl, we protest —Burlington
Hawke ye.
—A trying case: “Oh no!” she ex
claimed, in consternation, “surely not,
doctor!” “Yes,” he said, “you are
certainly threatened with scarlet fe
ver.” “ What shall I do, what shall I
do?” she moaned, in great distress.
“O, doctor, couldn’t you throw it into
some other kind of fever? Scarlet is
so trying to my complexion.” — Philo
delphia Call.
—“Are you going to the German to¬
morrow night, Amy?” asked “Yes. the dear, high
school girl of her friend.
I think I’ll go,” was the reply, “ little you
know Adolphie has I taught me Kuessen a
of Sic the Mich’ language. and gespiel’ can say and * ‘nix
‘aus
cumrous.’ Besides, I am fond of sauer
kraut and bologna sausage, you know. ”
Mildred fainted. — Oil City Derrick.
—“Do you know, sir, that you have
outraged not only the fixed laws of so¬
ciety, but you have lost the respect of
your friends and relations by marrying
this mulatto?” said an irate father to
his eldest son, who stood in defiant at¬
titude before him. “What is your ex¬
cuse for this grave and irremediable of¬
fense?” “I was ‘color blind,’ father,”
was the reply of the innocent young
man .—The Judge.
—“What are you crying about?”
asked a kind-hearted stranger of a lad
who was standing in front of a news
paper ofhee w eeping as if his heart
would break. “ O, dad’ m gone up stairs
to lick the editor. " Well, has ha
comedown yet?” “Pieces pursued him the have, gentle ’
Samaritan. of ex
plained the boy, indulging in a fresh
outburst of tears, “and I’m expecting
the rest every mitout e." — Brooklyn
Eagle.