A CURIOUS PHENOMENON.

Temuka Leader, Issue 902, 10 January 1882, Page 3

A CURIOUS PHENOMENON.

Last winter, as the story goes (says the Weekly Argus) Litchfield, Ct., girl of sixteen went riding on a cold day. Returning home slie complained that her eyes pained her. They grew worse, and she was obliged to stay in a dark room. A few days ago she felt something coming Out of her eyes. She helped it out with her hands. Her eyes felt better at 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 right eye and lonk out of the left eye. and she can see a distance of eight or ten miles, and distinguish things as well as an ordinary person can only six rods away. She is able to look clear to the la.ke, a distance of three and a half miles, and identify anyone, 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 m an air line are seven miles away. To test her a field-glass was used, and her sight would far outreach any object that could be seen with the glass. If she closes her left eye and looks out of the right, then she cannot see anything except close to her, but that eye is a perfect microscope. She is able to distinguish things that the natural eye cannot see. The point of a needle looks as Hunt as a crowbar, and it is wonderful to hear her describe the beautiful colors of flies and other insects. To her the hairs on a person’s head look as large as darning needles, and in the finest pieces of linen she can count the threads as easily as one can count betm-poles. The moment she opens both eyes they assume both crosseyed expression or shape, and then she sees again as any other person, it is the intention of her father to take her to New 'Joikat no distant day to let some of the celebrated physicians see tin’s wonderful phenoaion. The irl herself is a very bright pretty girl, but very timid.