CHANGING THE COLOUR OF THE EYES.

Kumara Times, Issue 1036, 26 January 1880, Page 3

CHANGING THE COLOUR OF THE EYES.

A recent number of Le Sport, a Eat is paper, presents to the notice of its reader's a Hanoverian (chemist who possesses the secret of changing the colour of the eyes with the same facility that he would that of a tress of hair or a piece of silk 1 “ This wonderful man,” says the- Writer, “in ol’der to demonstrate the truth of his assertion, goes about the world accompanied by a cat, a dog, a monkey, and a brace of negroes, male and female, who are all living witnesses to the accuracy of his statement* Thus-the cat has one eye green, the other red • the dog’s optics are both of the brightest pihk, the monkey rejoicing in a couple of eyes brilliantly yellow.. With regard to the negro and his dusky female companion they offer even , more interest, as specimens of the HanoVerian doctor’s art. One of the man’s eyes is as black a’9 ebony-,' it fellow of the tenderest blue that ever maiden sighted to possess. The negress, emulating Balzac’s famtus heroine, ‘la fille aux yeux d’or,’ rejoices in a right eye resembling silver, her left one being of a golden hue.” The article concludes by saying that, as th'e Doctor purposes visiting Paris, we shall probably hear more Of him j meanwhile the curses of tho tribe of detectives must be loud and deep.