AN OCULIST'S TEST.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1559, 16 May 1887, Page 3

AN OCULIST'S TEST.

In a large faotory m whioh were employed several hundred persons, one of the workmen, m wie'ding his hammer, oareleuly allowed it to slip from his hand. It flew half way across the room, and B^tack a fellow-workman m the left eye. The man averred that his eye was blinded by the blow, although a careful examination failed to reveal any injury, there being not a scratch visible. He bought • suit m the courts for compensation for the lost of talf of his eyesight, and refused all offers to compromise. Under the law the owner of the factory was responsible for an ir jury resulting from an aooident of this kind, and although he believed that the rean waß shammiDg, and that the whole case was an attempt at swindling, he had about mado up his mind that he would be compelled to pay the claim. The day of trial arrived, and In open court an eminent oculist retained by the defence examined the alleged Injured member, and gave it as bis opinion that it was as good as the right eye. Upon the plaintiff's loud protest of his inability to see with his left eye, the oculist proved him a perjurer, and satisfied tbe court and jury of tho falsity of his claim. And how do you suppose he did Itl Why, olmply by knowing thai the colours green and red combined made black. He prepared a black card on which a few words were written with green ink. Then the plaintiff was ordered to pnt on a pair of (spectacles with two different glasses, tbe one for the fight eye being red and the one for the left eye consisting of ordinary glass. Then the oard wsb handed him and ho waji ordered to read the writing on it This he did without hesitation, and the cheat was at onoe exposed, The sound right eye, fitted with the red glate, was unable to distinguish the green writing on the card, wbilo the left eye whioh he pretended was sightless was the cne wih whioh the reading had to be done.— Pottery Gazelle.*

AN HEREDITARY LEGISLATOR A Melbourne correspondent writes : — 11 Although young ladles generally associate a London Journal style of naughtiness with lordlings, it la earnestly to be hoped that m making his next selection of an •ide-de-oatrp, His Excel loncy the Governor will receive the services of a gentleman whose views of life is that an auooUte of the Governor Bhould bear at least an outwardly respectable character. It Is understood that Lord Deerharßt is about to take hie departure from the Colony m Lord Dudley's yaoht, and that the gazetting of his resignation! ia merely held over until there Is a strip of sea between him and the colony. By the time he reaches home, as the yacht is on a cruise, tLls little ooandal will hq,ve plown over, and though he is now m one •erne ipnt to Coventry, that being his ancestral seat, will not hurt him muoh, and as English society, like a Melbourne police magistrate,' judges a lord by a different rule ta that yrh'.oh would be applied to an ordinary oitizen, he will be welcomed, and we shall soon hear that the little oolonial tarnish has been rubbed off, And that my lord has taken his seat amongst the Peers^to legislate for other people, . .