Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1892 — Telescopic Eyes. [ARTICLE]

Telescopic Eyes.

John Thomas Kcslop, of Birmingham. England, is a lad whose powers of vision are to be accounted among the marvelous. He is known as “the living microscope,” on account of being able to see the most m>nute objects clearly defined. In 187$ be was attacked; with some baffling eye trouble, and came very near losing his sight forever. After the disease had reached its worst there was an instant and startling change for the better. Whou his sight returned it was with extraoriinarily increased powers of vision. To John Thomas the most minute plant louse was as largo ns a rabbit, - and tho mosquito’s bill was as large as an axhandle. He could see and describe distant minute objects with Startling clearness and* precision. lie was amazingly shocked upon repairing to the well to get a cooling draught to see the immense number of hideous creatures that were floating, fighting and wriggling about in the water. From that day to this water has never passed the lips of John Thomas liesiop; his drinks consist wholly of coffee, tea and milk, thoroughly boiled. Tho doctors says that the entire organization of tfle eye has undergone a structural change; that the corno i has bopome abnormally enlarged and that the crystalline lenses have divided into three different disks or circles, each circle surrounded by another of light blue.