Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1883 — Ben Butler’s Eyes. [ARTICLE]

Ben Butler’s Eyes.

Gov. Butler’s eyes are somewhat re markable. One of them, we are told, is near-sighted and the other far-sight-ed. He puts one close to the page he reads, while with the other he can tell the time on a distant steeple. Without inconvenience, if in a theatre, he can fasten one on the pit and the other on the gallery, where his friends and admirers sit. His eyes are typical of the man. We can see in them great natural powers—telescopic and microscopic—but a lack of co-ordination.— Boston Herald. Henry Clay Thurston, of Mount Pleasant, Texas, the tallest man in America, is seven feet seven and onehalf inches high, 53 years of age, and weighs 280 pounds.