Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1875 — Looking Into the Eyes. [ARTICLE]

Looking Into the Eyes.

I suppose, sir or madam, that when, you turn your organs of vision upon those of one whom you love you characterize the proceeding by saying that you looked in the adorned one’s eyes. But you never did look in a person’s eve in the world, unless you have used a Helmholz glass. You can only look into the eye exactly* as it looks out. Here is a poor woman—poor soull how my heart bleeds for her—who is evidently* poor, and the hour she passes at the hospital waiting for her turn must be of the utmost value to her; yet she must come. The pupil of her afflicted eye is darker than the other; you can see absolutely nothing there; to'your unaided vision her eye is as dark as the interior of a cave. How is a surgeon to know what particular disturbance injuries her sight? How is he to examine the optic nerve and retina? He leads her into a black room—painted black, doors and walls; a very coffin—turns on a strong jet of gas and directs upon her ey*e thesimple instrument which has immortalized its discoverer, the German oculist, Helmholz. It is a mirror, with a tiny hole in the center. Bringing your own eye to a proper focus behind the glass, you see one of the greatest marvels made by the hand of God —the interior workings of a human eye. The black pupil is by magic; •.the very bottom of the eye is disclosed; blood-vdssels are seen to cross and recross a strangely-lit surface in a way such as you never dreamed. l’gh-h! I prithee, pdet, drop the expression, 44 1 looked into her eyes.” It may tickle the groundlings when they read it in your rhyme, but verily if makes the eye-initiated shudder. —Olive Logan, in N. Y. Graphic, A Washington correspondent says: 44 Strangers will be surprised in visiting tbe Treasury to notice that the lower corridors are all inclosed by wire-netting screens reaching almost from marble to frescoed ceiling. They have been used as a precautionary* measure ever since the late robbery of" $47,000 in bonds. It seems rather late in the day to be so careful. Previously the halls and doors leading into the counting-rooms were left wide open, and almost any* person had free ingress into portions of the rooms, and the only wonder is that more thefts have not occurred." On a.,voyage from Australia to London a ship lately took fire from the spontaneous combustion of 44 wool in the grease, which was part of her cargo.” In putting away winter fruit it must be as cool as possible without Treezing.