The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-03-13

'a'o S"pposC9i ChUNSe F&r D0Qy 10
'd"cll 10; nor are ac3undreis unis,rmly, 10
eyes, no c.and mouth, "'maTkcd and quoted
to be william" Nature cuts queer capers
with mems phizes at times, and conFounds
all the deductions Of philosophy Char
acter does MOI put ali Of lis goods, aomc-
times not any Of them, in its shop win
dow. Socrates had an ugly frontispiece;
and some of the most vIrtuous and anna
bic men have had faces which 4 stranger
would not like to have encountered in
lonely place after nIghttail We have
seen "foreheads viIlan"us low" on very
noble men, and grand domes of heads on
mere blocks and iguoramuscs. Ii is often
as Moore sings, that
In vain we TondIy strive to trace
The souls reelection in the face;
In VAIN we dwell on lines and crosses,
Cro9ked mouths, or short proboces;
Boobies have looked as Wise and bright
AS Plato and the Smgyrite,
ana many sage and learned skull
Has peepedsthrOugh windows dark and dull.
DeQuincey, in expatiating on the mean
ness Of Dr.. PAIRS personal appearance,
and his coarse aud Ignoble features, adds !:
Il that write this paper have a mean per
sonal appearance aud attributes the PEI
culiarity to the original uukiud aess of
nature 1t is said OF the great Russian
military hero, Suw4rrow, that, when en-
gagged IN Business, he looked q man. but,
while entertaining company, would walk
about the room with bent knees, and head
and hands hanging down like an idiot.
Some of the bolGest and most determined
men have weak mouths, aud some Of the
most timid and fck!e tirm-set lip and
defiant eye. Tt has been remarked that
one of the bravest Of our young Generals
In the late war,-a rough rider, and reck~
loss IN battle to the verge Of Madness
q gentleman 80 uuobtrusive in address,
and so gentle of face, that stranger,
meeting him casually, wopld at once place
him in that category Of temporizing souls
who are supposed incapable of saying boo
to goose. Bret Harte, speaking of the
fugi:ives from "Roaring camp" says that
physically, they exhibited no indica,i ion
Of their past lives and character. The
greatest scamp had a Raph8el face, with
q profusion of blonde hair; Oakhurst a
gambler, had the melancholy character
and intellectual abstraction Of a Hamlet;
the coolest and most courageous man was
scarcely over five feet in height, with
soft voice, and an embarrassed, timid
manner"
It is q curious fact that many of the
men who have been most distinguished
for their power to raise comic ideas have
had lpgubrious visages, suggestive of
tears rather than merriment. Grimaldi,
the prince Of clowns, was a dull heavy
looking man, of the stage; and SO was
Liston, who, after maddealng London
with his fun, used to sit up during "the
wee small hours" 30 read "Youpg's Night
Thoughts" Chambers tells in one of his
essays Of person residing near London,
who could make ones sides ache at any
time with his comic songs, yet had so
rueful, woe-begone face that his friends
addressed him by the name of Mr.. Dismal
what wi or huInorisE ever lived who
could so effectually ''create soul under
the ribs of death" by his jests, as poor
Tom Hood? His writings, as all the
world knows, are stepped in the very
Iqulntessence of fun; the drollest, oldest
fancies and conceits sparkle on his page
as incessantly az fre-fies in an Indian
grove. Yet who that ever had a glimpse
of his pictured phiz so grave and melan.
choly looking, if he had done moth,
ing ell his live but stare at deaths heads
and statues of "Niobe, all tears, would
have dreamed that he was not modern
Heraclitus, sexton, an undertaken, any.
thing rather than professor Of the Pan
Itagruelian philosophy, and author of the
queer conceits that fill his "Own?" His
face "insinuates such false Hood" that
nothing less than galvanisn could shock
its features into any demonstration of fun,
and instead OF being suited to adorn a