Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1904 — Parnell’s Eyes. [ARTICLE]

Parnell’s Eyes.

“Anent your allusion to the color of Parnell’s eyes,” writes a lady correspondent, “many years ago a young girl passed a man on the staircase of the Railway hotel, Westport, Ireland. There was tragedy written all over him. So uncommon were the man’s eyes that they made clear to the girl a phrase in Shakespeare she bad never before understood, ‘Eyes like carbuncles.’ The girl Joined her friends and said, ‘I have seen a man with eyes the color of a solid mounted carbuncle.' The late Captain Boycott, who was one of the party, said, Then you have seen Parnell, for he Is the only man I know with eyes that answer to that, and it is not likely to be he, for if he were in this neighborhood he would be at Newport House.’ The party traveled to Dublin by the evening’s mail train. At Mullingar Parnell got into the same carriage and sat opposite the writer, who wrote on the margin of the paper she was reading, ‘The man I saw in the hotel,’ and passed it to Captain Boycott, who returned it with the added words, ‘lt la Parnell.’”—London M. A. P.