Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1882 — Stones Abont Blind Men. [ARTICLE]

Stones Abont Blind Men.

Chambers’Journal. Three men, two of them blind, were drinking together one night in the room of a public house, aud as is too often the result of such couvival meetings, one of the blind men quarreled and came to blows with the man who could see. Here was likely to be a battle not by any means on equal terms. But the other blind man was equal to thp'-opcasion. That the man who could ete should have no undue advantage over his less fortunate opponent, up jumped the blind friend aud turned off the gas, and so they pommeled each other in a harmless way for«> a time. We have given an illustration of the warlike passion, As an offset we could give many illustrations of that gentler passion, love, for the blind are eminent disciples of Cupid and Hymen. As a rule, a respectable blind man has no difficulty in getting a seeing wife, and very often with good locks to boot. And when we consider the delicacy of touch in the finger tips of the blind, the latter is not to oe wondered at. Blind men do not always marry wives who see. We.know of many instances in which bqth husband and wife are blind, and have managed to rear families without the occurrence of auy serious mishap either to themselves or the children. And the cases are lare in which the latter are defective in sight. Only lately the marriage took place of a blind couple somewhat advanced in years, she being his second wife, aud he her third blind husband. The marriage was not wanting iu the elements of romance,for in their joung days they had courted, and parted, blind in a double sense. We will conclude with a courtship, but iu this case will not vouch for its truth. A blind man on several occasions met a widow wbo was not, however, like himself, blind, and latterly conch ded that she would make him a good wtfe. He resolved that he would’pop the question’ without loss of time. Accordingly, one evening found him in the widow’s house for that purpose, when his suit was entirely successful. But so elated was he with his success that on leaving Ihe door he forgot that he was up a flight of stairs. The staircase window being very low, aud happening to be open, he felt the air on his heated brow, ami at once stepped out without thinking where he was, aud so fell into the court below. The widow, hearing the noise, ran down, greatly alarmed, but was fully reassured that no bones were broken by his remark: “Maggie, ye hae a big step to your door!”