AMUSEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 280, 20 November 1908, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS.

SIOOO FOR AN EYE. Donald Bain Mackenzie, the perfectlyibuilt seven-foot-two giant druni-niajo.' of the Kilties Band, which appears here on Thursday, December 3, lias sold his eyes for the sum of SIOOO to some society of scientific research iu the 1 East, who are demonstrating that tile last objects seen by a dying person may be found fixed as a photographic negative upon the retina. Mackenzie has secured this unusual contract hecai.se his eyes are almost a third larger than those of the average man, which will remove from the undertaking many o. the scientific difficulties. No matter when or where Mackenzie dies, arrangements are completed to have the eyes forwarded to the society. If death should come by drowning and the body be not recovered the society loses, for Mackenzie, with a Scotsman's instinct for a good bargain, has already secured a goodly part of the full amount, and remarks frequently with much glee: "I'm no takin' ony chances o' lessenin' their intorest oil the money invested, and have made up mac mind to stall' in the way o' the progress o' science for mony'n long year." The box plan for the Kilties is now open at the Dresden and already filling.