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


a frontispiece to BurDor's Anatomy 0
Melancholy. In fact the owner tells u
that nc was actually taken many times fol
Ia Methodist minister, and, on his marcl
90 Berlin with the Prusslan infantry
could never pass himself off for ybody
but the chaplain of the regiment. Ger.
vantes Swift, Moliere, afford additional
instances or comic seniases whose physi.
! economies nave belled their character.
i as the merriest men have sometimes
the soberest faces, 50 the most serious.
minded have mirthful ones. IT has been
said Of Wilberforce, that his countenance
was 80 merry, rosy and good-fellowisb
that he seemed more like a iovlal son of
Monus or Bachus, than d.vout Chris
tlan,as he was 5gtUs ct IN cute, and a Guam
pion Of abolition. The poet Young, whose
Writings are 50 gloomy that il has been
! doubted whether thelr author WAS ever
! Young, had anything but The gho8tly face
one would give TO HIM after reading the
Night Though ). II is well known, haw,
ever, that he was Gill5 so desperate place
hunter, after which he turned States
evidence againsg she world, and satirized
the Dursu IS IN which be had failed. Oao
Can easily imagine what clog and hin
drance to success il any profession mrst
he physiognomy unsu,ted 10 IT. Who
doe, not hesitate &c employ broker who
has ono speculation his eye, "a lawyer
who, instead Of keen, vuiture-eyed look,
has & joVial, benevolent exprcssion,--or y
schoolmaster with so comic a phiz that
his pupils would be forever grnning, in
stead of being "boding tremblera," who
Tad learned to trace
The days disasters in his morning ace?
Charles Lano has well described the
distrust we feel of such men in his ludi-
crous account Of the Quaker "of the old
Foxian orgasm, whom he heard EXPRESS
IN his rcm"rse 1t meeting, thai he
had been wit ia his youth while his
brow would have scared away the Lew
tiles, the Jocos Riousqae, faster than the
Loves fed the face Of Dis at Enns! Some
years ago IN the East there was little
handy legged comedian, who, finding that
the stage did not pay abandoned It for
the medical profession, but could make
40 Roadway on account Of his "villian0us
merry visage." He tried every way to
look grave ard wise, but hadn't "the
power of face" In spite of every effort,
he carried into his new calling his old
merry smirk, aud the rogdish twinkle of
his eyes; SO that, while hia patients were
grooming wi h pain, he seemed to be per-
petualiy gjggliug at their distress. He
next tried the law, but even in his most
frantic appeals, when he pulled his hair
and tore his coat tails, no jury would be-
lieve him in earnest; and so he abondoned
this calling t o, declaring that his faceti-
Gus face would be the rum Of him in any
serious vocation. Not less unhappy in
his physiognomy was an IRISH comedian
of brilliant talents, WHO believed himself
cut oat intellectually for high tragedy,
while his face and figure compeltc him
to perform only comic parts, In his own
opinion, fat and fortune only had made
him comedian; and, while he elected
shouts of laughter as ! bog trottcr. with
bnskins composed OF straw ropes, he
thought only chow great Kemblo was
N Patrick lost" and viewed himself as
onesw who should have been exciting pity
or horror as Lear or Macbeth
Anomalies like these do not jnvalidate
the general truth that the mird stamps
its character on the features OF the face
It Is still true that, az the Scripture says,
"a man may be known by his look, and
one that has understanding by his coun-
tenAnce when thou mee.est him" How
often do we hit upon thu character of a
stranger at q glence, with thousand-fold
more accuracy that if we were to make it
the subject Of long and laborious study!
The ruling principle of the man flashes
upon us instantly, from some pecaliar ex
preston upon the features by the thoughts
and feelings of years, when if We were to
wait and Judge by e>luivoual signs of
words and deeds, we might be led into
the grossest error. 1t is sail of the cele-