REMARKABLE EYES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3263, 16 December 1881, Page 3

REMARKABLE EYES.

Last winter, as the atory goes, afc Litchfield, Ct., a girl of sixteen went riding on a cold day. Returning home she complained that her eyes pained her. Ihey grew worse, and she was obliged to stay in a dark room. A few days ago she felt something coming out of her eyes, fche helped ifc out with her hands. Her eyes felt better afc once, and her sight; was recovered. Now comes the strangest part of the story. Six months ago the girl's eyes were straight and natural ; now the girl is cross-eyed, but she pays no attention to that. She sees things just the same as she always did, but let her close her eye and look out of her left eye, and she can see a distance of eight or ten miles, and distinguish things as well as an ordinary person can only sixty rods away. She is able to look clear to the lake, a distance of three and a half miles, and identify any one, describing their dress even. The distant hills are brought close to her, and she can see the farmers getting in their hay, even counting the number of heaps which in an air line are seven miles from her. To test her a field glass was used, and her sight would far outreach any object that could be seen with a glass. P. she closes her left eye and looks out of the right, then she can not see anything except close to her, but that eye is a perfect mieroicope. She is able to distinguish things that the natural eye cannot see. The point o; a needle looks as blunt as a crowbar, and it is wonderful to hear her describe the beaut'f ul colors of flies and other insects. To he.* the hairs on a person's head look as large asdarning needles, and in the finest piece of linei she can count the threads as easily as one ran count beanpoles. The moment she opens both eyes | they assume both cross-eyed expresssion or shape, and then she sees again as any other person. Ifc is the intention of her father to take her to New York at no distant day to let some of the celebrated physicians see this wonderful phenomenon. The g'.rl herself is a very bright pretty girl, but very timid.