The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-06-02
THE PAR VALUE OF A NOSE.

ny amusing Skctcll OF scene winch recently
occurred in that CITY:
Mr.. Baum is proprietor Of a coG;e
house IN Delaware avenue. Some TIM
ago, Il sailor, named Connor, entered hi
place while drunk. Baum ordered Come
to leave. Instead of doing this, Como
seized Baum by the nose, and so pulled j
that he felt like an elephant for a week af
tcrwards. Connor was arrested and SEN
to prison. Yesterday he was called up fo
trial. lie pleaded guilty, and asked for the
mercy of the court. Mr.. Baum was rep
resented by Col. Leo. Col. Lee went into
a dissertation on the value of a nose
Col. Lee went into antiquities in high
ly interesting manner, and drew history
of noses from the time Of the creation down
to the nasal organs scuIptured in bas relic
npon the monuments Of Pompeii. \
nose, gentlemen, said Col. Lee, is tho
acme of creative handiwork. Placed
c1udistant between the eyes, the human
face divine is indebted to it for all It's cx
quisitencss-all its beauty! The nose is
the Sccnter Of the sense Of smelling; with.
out it the delicate perfume of tho violctS
would Ee indistingushablc from the pcsli'
ferrous exhalations OF sour krout, or the
ammoniac pungency Of guano. a dis
placement of SO valuable an organ by the
ruthless knucklcs Of this prisoner, may ii
please yolr honor, would have been q
heinous offence, but the permanent di>fg
uration Of its contour is a crime which de,
mands the EXTREMIST penalty Of the law
Col. Lee dwclt upon the high estimate
placed uron the nasal protubcrancc by the
Roman youth who fough. under Pompcy,
and depicted in graphic terms their pre-.
cipitate flight when Caesar shouted to his
soldiers iii Facics,' which being inter
pretcd, means Smasl, their Noses
Just as Col. Lee had succeeded in
drawing tears from most Of the female
spectators in the court room, the prisoner
rose up and opened out:
May it please your honor, can l say a
word g
Certainly said Jadge Thompson, speak
out
well, your honor, all I've got 10 say is,
that Mr.. Baum's nose WAS broke before
| hit him and l own it. But | think, Mr..
Judge, that Mr.. Baum looks the better for
tue operation. Before I,hit him, his nose
pointed to the left. As knocked it to the
right, | leave it to anybody that ever
knowed him aforc, to say if his looks anl
improved by the change. If Mr.. Baum
says his nose wasn't broke before plugged
him, then gives up and says no more
But If lie docs-anl know hes man
Of his word-then asks this court not to
be too hard upon a poor sailor. was
drunk at the time, your honor, or
wouldn't have struck him"
"Mr. Baum being thus appealed to, fell
back upon his magnanimity, and acknowl-
edged the truth Of Connor's remarks. Col
Lee followed suit by saying nothing farther,
and the court after giving lcft,handcd
bencdiction to the law which allows a man
to convert himself into hog whenever lie
pleases a sentence Of ten days i'm
plisonment and one cent fine"
tut
Why Epidcmics R1ge at Niyhi.-It was
in one night that 1000 pcrished in the
plague of London of 1865. 1t was at
night that the army Of Senachcrib was
destroyed. Both in England and on the
continent large proportion Of cholera cases,
in its several forms, have been observed
to have occurred between one and two
o'clock in the morning. The "danger Of
exposure to night air" has been theme OF
physicians from time immemorial but il
is remarkable that they have never yet
called in the aid Of chemistry to account
for the fact.
1t, is at night that tie stratum of air
nearest the ground must always be the
most charged with the particles Of AMI.
maiized matter given out from the skin,
and deleterious gases, such as carbonic
acid gas, the product Of respiration, anJ
sulpharcttcd hydrogen, the product of the
sewers. In the day, gases and vapourous
substances Of all kinds rise in the air by
the rarefaction Of heat; at night, wher
this rarefaction leaves them, they fall
by an increase Of gravity, if impcr
fectly mixed with the atmosphere. while
tho gases evolved during the night, instead
Of ascending, remain at nearly the same
level. 1t is known that carLonc acid gas
at low temperature, partakes so nearly OF
the nature of fluid, that it may be pourct
out of ono vessel into another it rises a
the temperature at which it is cxhalcd from
the lungs, but its tendency is towards tho
floor or the bed Of the sleeper, in cold ant
unventilatcd rooms.
Il Wise Conclusion.-'T Tie conclusion