A NEW USE FOR EYES.
• Personal adornment,/says a:' Home; paper, .has:given vise in various quarters qf the glybe to some questionable jjastes-r, such, for instance, as the Yfearuyof: soalpa, and of birds' plumage. But no fashion of tauceotthekstSewYork'novelty. This consists briefly ip the use of human eyes' as a substitute for jewels. A gentleman lately arrive'dffom Peru with 3s} petrified eyes, which he has handed oyer to Tiffany, the great jeweller, to be; polished and i mounted 1 , jn gold for. a necklace; • The; work/went on merrily for a time,. But after a few had been tKua' treated* the men' engaged on thia pleasant task were seized' with serious illness,:and enquiry elicited that it was probably due to some, powerful acid poison used by the Ihcas.in; embalming their dead : . So the work had; •to be stopped'for.a;time ;• -'bufc.-.of oourse,! ■the'dßfect can -be easily remedied' by the; Bimplo plan of pvqoawng eyes from bodies; which I .have -ndli: yet','been into: muipmies, ; ,;,; -In the /meantime; perhaps, I decayed teeth atrurig:together for [bwce-.j the! pjace; ; /tfjotw'...onajwrti,:',, ■''■:. :-^; :^: ;E
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2175, 19 December 1885, Page 3
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173A NEW USE FOR EYES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2175, 19 December 1885, Page 3
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