Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1888 — A Peculiarity of American Eye. [ARTICLE]

A Peculiarity of American Eye.

The efforts of the war depaitment to secure a field glass of greater pow.gr than die one-* hey no vV use Las liisco-ered the fact that the cvcs.df the average-- Aweri ermvmrt-fcpscrJogctiK-rdlmar tbr; -.0.0 f- -men in Coieigi) cttun’ffcs. The dftuMb giass. known . ns -the field glass, * : , rw u' -d, i* weaker, thd: that used in lug armies of Europe..* It is of only from, fix •or -fix "powers—enffri-ly fi- )"wcgEgFd?' i (ur jiur* I»vv. Tiie o.dy glass tiny can *- c r "f s-.itli- , ii-r.t row or is a iifiglh spy glgss. whii i- is • defective in that it ov-es rot take in a broad emiugh fa-id. This i- a vv; v vcyiotis dcft t-t in the equip meat of the American army, but.there seems to fie no iinmeuiaTe ju-ospect of its convetion, !v>-ause'puf. ,< yjg arc foci closvc. together. * Some of the V Ifr-.d troops, may be able to ue a differy>- g'a-s, 4.-i:? tlie ttlnjc nkee soldier g-n'rot overc/ime tii.s untionai p.wuliatifV.- '* !;• bc--t mibtary i -. '.ass in fisc is that w’.'i'h wl;icli life Guo -,.>i : rmy is sup.iPcd An eUynipi was m ;to adopt the n bv •the war department, but it \v, ; < found tb-'i rtr -eyisof the glarses were so far apart fhnt they could not be tisrtl 'ey Americans. ''duT-edi-parl-moiH i> s udying how to over jpirsfc this iliiiiculty.