Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — Lardor’s Green Eyes. [ARTICLE]

Lardor’s Green Eyes.

Walter Savage Landor insisted that green eyes were the most “wonderful” —he always pronounced the word with a double o. In support of his argument he told the following story: “It bo happened that when I was a young man at Venice I was standing In the •doorway of the Case Florlan one day, •watching the pigeons on the Piazza San Marco, when an old gentleman rushed up to me and said: ‘Pardon me, sir, but will you allow me to look into your eyes? Ah, I thought so. Sir, you have green eyes. I never saw but one pair before, and they belonged to the late Empress Catherine of Russia; they were the most wonderfully beautiful eyes In the world.’ I have reason,” continued Mr. Landor, ‘To remember this, for while the old gentleman was examining my eyes I had my pocket picked.” The receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio Hailroad have purchased forty miles of :85-lb. sixty-foot steel rails and will experiment with them on the Pittsburg division and in the Baltimore tunnel. These rails were originally bought for the Columbia and Maryland Electric Railroad, whifh was designed to parallel the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore and Washington and to become an important factor in business between those points. The project failed and the material which was purchased has been sold. These are the first sixty-foot rails to be used on the B. & 0.