The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-02-14

noses of every kind and degree, and all
clearly express some quality or con-
dition of the moral and intellectual
man.
The difficulty is how to classify so
numerous a collection. There is the
cogitative nose, the apprehensive nose,
| the inquisitive nose, the cQmbative
nose, the defensive noseS Sse aggres-
siye nose, the irritable nose, the secre-
tive nose, the confding nose, the ac-
! quisitive nose, the economical nose, the
/ toper's nose, the pugilist's nose, the
sentimental nose, and the nose which
never can look sentimental under any
provocation. Then there is the tragedy
nose and low comedy nose, the burles-
| que nose, and even the vegetable nose.
| There are noses hooked and crooked,
sharp and fiat, round and square, noses
which turn up and noses which hang
down. Some noses are merely pimples,
others are carbuncles, and while we oc-
| casionally hear OF double nose, some
persons, unfortunately for them, have
no noses at all. There are noses one
meets with IN the street which one cam
not help envying; they are SO prying
and pertinacious, so prominent and I'M
portsnt, that they appear sure to make
! their way ID the world.
Looking at this organ as a sign of
mental development, it might be said
that the Roman nose means executive
| ness, martial courage; the Greek nose,
refinement the Jewish nose, CONNER
| cialism the Celestial nose, inquisitive-
ness; and the snub, undevelopment
The men with snub noses, it has been
remarked, are, however, rather an anna
| BILE class of individuals. There is a
rich store Of humor and drollery about
| their noses, which causes the wearers to-
| be much sought after as boon COM
! panions. They are often cunning
| shavers, fellows of infinite jest and
most excellent fancy"
Abstractly considered, neg retrOetsse
is not prepossesslng. Looking at the
nose itself, we would not form high
| opinion of the mental or moral quail
! tiles of the bearer of such a nose yet
! it is ON undeniable fact that many men
| who have been born into the world
with snub noses have risen to great
| emlnence, aud in the race of life have
often left behind them men with far
| better ones. Nay, we know instances
| in which men with most ridiculous
| looking snub noses have contrived to
| step over the heads of men with large,
| imposing, aristocratic-looking Roman
| noses. As a rule, however, the long
nose carries the day.
A thin, pinched nose is universally
| admitted to be characteristic of sordid,
| self-mortifying, and misery individuals,
and is SO employed by painters, novel
lists, and dramatists. A sharp, hooked,
! flexible one accompanies a propensity
to scandal. The cock=nosed men are a
! busy, bustliug race, remarkable for
! their self-conceit, their cool assurance
and loquacity-the kind of men that
will not be "put down by vulgar clam
or, sir" Persons gifted with q nasal
| expansion (vulgarly, horse-nosed) are
! generally individuals of an enthusiastic
temperament. A slight diation of nos
| tril, to express triumph, is assigned to
I the Apollo Belvidere. By the same
rule, FABULOUS and breathing nostrils
are given by scuiptors and painters to
| their evil demons and titans, as the out
ward sign of arrogance and defiance.
| It will be found that the most extra
| ordinary men of every age have been
distinguished by having extraordinary
noses. Beginning with the ancients,
| Scipio Nasica derived his name from
| the prominent share of this feature
possessed by him so did Ovid, sur
| named NasO, on which account Pope re-
presents his fatterers persuading him
that he had "a nose like Ovids :"
Cicero's nose was distinguished by
vecth (eicer ) Svl1a's by a profusion of
| pimples. This latter made a great
figure in those days, and the Athenians,
while he was besieging them, cut a
number of Jokes on it. They compared
70 ,IrnI Cx-ar-
meal, as We read in "Plutarch's Life
of Sylla." This joke, as many other
iocose things often do, cost the inven-
tors of it very dearly when the revenge
full dictator put his nose within the city
gates. The nose of Cromwell was well
calculated to vie with that of his Roman
prototype, if we may credit Cleveland,
Birkenhead, and other contemporary
| writer's.
"Cromwells face" says Birkenhead,
"wears natural tiffany, and his chin
may furnish a rusty coat of mail. His
| nose is comet in grain. Certainly it
is no human feature, but the emblem of
a mandrake. And yet this basilisk
would king it." Napoleon the First
| vas wont to say, "Give me man with
| plenty of uose-long nose, long head.
| His best generals were, as a rule, re-
markably well provided in this particu-
lar. His own was exquisitely chiseled,
| 5culpturesque in mold, form, and ex-
| preston, though strangely enough, not
| me of the brothers had a nose worth
| ooking at. But the most prominent
nose in Europe was Arthur, Duke of
| Wellingtons. And the Iron Dukes
captains, Anglesey, Picton, Comber-
mere, and Hardinge were all note
1 worthy in this respect also. Sir Charles
| Napier, the conqueror of Scinde, was
] similarly favored. His nose was Like
the beak of an eagle; it was curved
| and keen as the blade of scythe." In
Il celebrated debate in the House of
| Commons, Sheridan compared Pitts
nose to the steeple of Strasburg; Pitt
| retorted by hkeninS that OF Sheridan
! TO ga fiery meteor. Sherrys feature,
ION the coloring of which thousands of
| pounds of creditors money had been
I spent, still CLEANS like a fiery comet
| rom the caricatures of Gillray." The
| late Lord Kelly had such another nose,
and he had very red face altogether
g Pray, my lord" said Foote to him,
"come and look over my garden wall
my cucumbers are very backward.
Lord Brougham's nose, 1.-THE, flexible,
/ uOOlACs ~" "dSS1uS Win l1AAAllIt
humor, now heaving with terrific wrath,
has been the theme of ten thousand
pens. By the way, Senior Oreuse, the
veteran leader of the Republican party
in Spain, is said to be about duplicate
of the late Lord Brougham, the SINH
larity of face even to the unmistakabIe
nose being wonderful. Mrs. Siddons'
was another remarkable nose, and it
| gave great trouble to Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds- The prince of portrait-painters
was completely baffied by it. For
\ whole week he had been ut the feature,
and could not get the hang of it by
hook or crook. The witchery of the
| great tragedy queens great, merry, yet
serious eyes; the ripeness, tinctured
with tenderness, and touched with
soupcon of soorn, of the small mouth;
the gloom of the eyebrows, the dimple
| in the chin, the inimitable curve of the