A Blind Shipbuilder

A letter f rom Bristol, B. I., to the Boston Post says: "It is here that the beautü'ul Bailboats, tho swift steani launches and tlie flyirig catamarans are shaped for future triumphs. And the outside woiid would scarce believo me when I say that much of the ski 11 wíiich fashions these swift-sniling craft, that awüke the admiration of comijetitors, is due to the. active braiu and -willing hands of one whose eyes are iorever sealed to the ligh.t of heaven, and -who, since early childhood, has never looked upon the blue water, where he lovcs to spend his leisure lioiirs. Strange that this sightless man has a mind so enlightened and senses so acute öiat he can enter a lumber yard, pass his hand over the dead wood, and occasionally rapping it with hts knueklcs, his ear close to the object, teil its imperfections mcire correctly than many who, haviug eyeH, see not as tliis man whom the world ;alls blind."