Unsteady eyes, rapidly jerking from side to side, are frequently indicative of an unsettled mind.
It is said that the prevailing colors of eyes among patients of lunatic asylums are brown and black.
Eyes placed close together in the head are said to indicate pettiness of disposition, jealousy, and a turn for fault finding.
All men of genius are said to have eyes clear, slow moving, and bright. This is the eye which indicates mental ability of some kind—it does not matter what.
One Horse Power Per Second.
To lift 550 pounds one foot in one second requires what is known as one horse power. Similarly, a horse power is able to raise twice that weight one foot in twice the time or one-half foot in just that time. Moreover, it can raise half 550 pounds one foot in half a second, or two feet in a second, and so on. Therefore, when we lift one-fourth of that weight, 137½ pounds, four feet in one second, we are exerting a horse power.
Accordingly, when a person who weighs 137½ pounds runs upstairs at the rate of four feet a second, he is exerting the equivalent of a horse power. For a man weighing twice that much, 275 pounds, it would be necessary to climb at the rate of only two feet a second to exert a horse power. It is possible to do much more.
As a matter of fact, a horse often exerts many times a horse power. The average horse can draw a wagon up a hill where a ten-horse power engine with the same load would fail. A horse power does not represent the greatest momentary strength of the average horse, but is a measure of the power which he can exert continuously.
Dream of Wealth Comes True.
To be a poor little girl with the poor little girl’s dream of some day becoming a princess with untold wealth and then to suddenly find that the wealthy part of the dream has come true, is the experience of fifteen-year-old Josephine Romano, of Boston, Mass.