Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-01-11
THE NOSE.


and said. I might assert, without fear of
contradiction, that no organ Of tany) sense
has received SO much " blowing" as the nose.
Itis So prominent that it ia often the first
feature that strikes you in q stranger, par
ticulsrly if you come in contact with him
face to face Small noses are said to denote
INDIGESTION Of character and narrow views
1t follows, then, that big noses are attended
by broad views caused, probably, by the
increased width between the eyes.
1t isn't always the person who hss the
most h6se that knows the most. The Gle
phant (which, gentleman and ladies', is the
largest animal in the known world) has got
remarkable development of nose. It is
very convenient for picking crackers cut of
the boys caps ct shows, squirting water
through, &c.j but the elephant isn't half as
knowing as the monkey, who hasn't any
nose at all, only dent in the face and two
small gimlet holes.
HPlsip as the nose on a mans face" is q
very common and at the same time q very
incorrect expression, for the merest tyro in
geography will tell you that the nose is q
promontory and not plane, unless it has
been planed off, in which case the compari-
son would hold good
The nose Is the only organ that can speeEe,
hence, no matter hoE homely 1t is it is not to
/ be "sneezed at" by any of the other organs.
The " Roman nose was very popular
among the ancient Romans, because the
most Of them had it. With them, not to
Know the pride Roman nose
was not to be a Roman. Romulus, who
founded Rome and hence was the first Ro-
man, was the first one who had that peculiar
nasal formation. His nose was straight orig
! inally, but his brother Remus, a spiteful lit
/ tie devil, pushed him over a heap of lime
| stone rock from sandusky, with which be
/ was intending to build tho oity's walls, and
striking upon his face his nose was broken in
thres places.
Thus originated the Roman nose, after
ward a mark Of distinction. a writer on
noses gives quite different aceOunt. He
| says the original term for lat style of pro-
boseis was "rosming nose, indicating dis
position on the part of the possessor to roam
about, poking his nose into other people,
business. I am inclined to tho former ex-
! PLANTATION, and consider the latter q sIandsr
upon q large and generally respectable class
/ Of ofcommunity.
1t is not considered polite in good society
| for one gentleman to wiring another gentle
mans nose with his thumb and finger, though
/ different views are entertained upon the sub
ject in different localities. In Arkansas, it
| is no unusual thing for a man to chew his
| friends nose of in the most urbane and gen
tlemanly manner, when q little heated in
debate, taste that certainly cannot ad-
| mire.
The shape Of the nose leads people of on
| tho wreng scent, frequently, in judging char
acter. Individuals are often called naughty,
proud, "stuck up, in short, when in fact
| they are quite the reverse, and have merely
| got stuck up nose. A man cannot be snub-
bed with impunity simply because he has a
snub nose, nor are pug noses invariably at
tended by a disposition to pugnacity.
Snuff takers are the only ones, my bearers,
who are literally "lesd by the noss." They
have been known top pinch themselves for the
necessaries of life in order to give their noses
the accustomed pinch. 1t ia no unusual
thing to see an aged couple closing life sf
usefulness by degenersting into a pair Of
suffers, and snuff themselves out at last Up
on this subject, "(s)puff csd."
Ny youthful hearers, you see numbers
about you every day whose noses have
81 passed the EubicORd," /" and are fast taking
to themselves the hue of the red pepper pod,
dead ripe. Remember that the puggiest Of
pug noses is far more respectable than bot