Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1875 — The Eye. [ARTICLE]

The Eye.

The eye shows character. The eyes of great warriors have almost always been gray, their brows lowering like munderclouds. Inventors have Large eyes, very full. Philosophers the most illustrious hate had large and deep-set eyes. The poets all have large, full eyes, and musicians’ eyes are large and lustrous. Buffon considers that the most beautiftil eyes are the black and the blue. I think I have seen black and blue eyes that were far from beautiful. Byron says the gazelle will weep at the sound of music. The gazelle's eyes have been called the most beautiful in the world, and the greatest compliment an Arab can pay his mistress. is to compare her eyes to a gazelle’s. The power of the eye was well illustrated in Robert Buras. He was taken to Edinburgh very much as Samson was taken to the temple—to amuse the Philistines. He was brought to the palace where the great men of Scotland were to be entertained, and was put in a back room until the time should come when they were ready for him. When they were, he was brought in, and, having measured the company with his wonderful eyes, he recited his immortal poem, “ Is there, for honest poverty?” Carlyle says that when he finished the nobles and gentlemen cowered and shrunk before his eyes. I think* his words had as much to do with it as his eyes. Henry Clay’s eyes were big gray ones, that looked black when he was excited. Webster’s eyes were a lustrous black and were like caged lions. Carlyle compares them to a great cathedral all lighted up. Cleopatra had black eyes. Mary Queen of Scots had liquid gray eyes. Dark eyes show power, light eyes gentleness and gray eyes sweetness. There is great magnetic p<gver in the eyes of several of the lower animals. The lion’s, the tiger’s and the serpent’s eyes are all magnetic. It is well known that the serpent will charm birds that are flying above it, until in great circles they will sweep down to the destruction which awaits them. A friend of mine, a doctor, was one day walking in the field, when he saw an adder lying on a rock. He drew near to examine it and presently looked at its eyes. He w’as attracted by their great beauty Mid involuntarily stepped forward two or three steps. Beautiful light flowed from them and seemed to bathe the very coils of the serpent. Gradually he drew closer until, just as he was almost within the reptile’s reach, he fell, feeling, as he said afterward, as though he had been struck by a stone. When he became conscious his head was in a friend’s lap. His first Woads were: “Whostruck me?” Noone struck you, doctor, I saw you were charmed by the snake and I struck it with a stone.” He had struck the snake and the doctor had felt the blow.— Heme Journal.