Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-27
concerning Noses.

II will be found that the most extraor-
binary men of every age have been dis
tinguished 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, surnamed Naso,
on which account Pope represents his
hatterers persuading him that ne had
"a nose like Ovids;" Cicero's nose
was distinguished by vetch (eicerl;
Sylia's by profusion of pimples. This
latter made a great figure in those days,
and the Athenians, while he was besieg-
ing them, cut number Of jokes on it,
They compared it to mulberry
dredped over with meal, as we read in
Plutarch's Life of Seylla. This
joke, as many other jocose things often
do, cost the inventors of it very dearly
when the revengeful dictator put
his nose within their city gates.
The nose of Cromwell was we'll
calculated to vie with that of
his Roman prototype, if we credit Cleve-
land, Birkenhead and other Contemporary
writer's. CROMWELL face" says Birken-
head, wears q natural tiffany, and his
chin may furnish a rusty coat of mail.
His nose is a cometn grain; certainly It
is no human feature, but the emblem OF
a mandrake. And yet this basilisk would
king it'll Napoleon l was wont to say
Give me a man with plenty of nose
long nose, long head" His best generals
were, as a rule, remarkably well provided
in this particular. His own was exquis-
itely chiseled, sculpturesque in mold
form aud expression; though, strangely
enough, not one Of his brothers had a
nose worth looking at. But the most
prominent nose in Europe was Arthur
Duke OF WellingtoAs And the Iron
Dukes captains, Anglesey, Picton, Com
bermere, and Hardinge, were men all
noteworthy 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 a
scvthe." In celebrated debate in the
House of the Commons Sheridan com
pared Pitts nose to the steeple of Sras.
burg. Pitt retorted by likening that OF
Sheridan to "a fiery meteor" Sherry s
feature, con the coloring of which
thousands of pounds of his creditors
money has been spent, still CLEANS like
fiery comet from the caricatures of
Gillray." The late Lord Kelly had
such another nose, and he had the very
red face altogether. Pray, my lord, "
said Foot to him, come look over my
garden wall--my cucumbers are very
backward" Lord Brougham's nose,
1.-THE, flexible, mobile, now wagging with
infinite humor, now heaying with terrific
wrath, has been the theme OF 10000
pens. BY the way, Senior 0rense, the
veteran leader of the Republican party
in Spain, is said to be about q duplicate
of the late Lord hrougham, the sim
ilarity of face, even TO the unmlstak-
able nese, being wonderful. Mrs. Sid
dons was another remarkable nose,
and it gave great trouble to Sir Joshua
Reynolds. The prince of portrait
painters was completely batfisd by it,
For a whole week he had been at the
feature, and could not get the hang of
It hy hook or crook. The witchery of
the tragedy queens great, merry, yet
serious eyes; the ripeness, tinctured
with tenderness, and touched with a
soupcon of scorn; Of the small mouth,
the gloom of the eyebrows, the dimple
in the chin, the inimitable curve Of the
graceful neck, the curly head, sur
mounted by the cavalier hat; the lazy
gracefulness of attitude-all were there,
true to the original; but then the nose
Booth, the well known actor, had a
broken nose. A lady once remarked to
him, 81 like your acting, Mr., Boothi
but, 70 be frank vita you, 1 cant get
over your nose No wonder, madam,
replied he, the bridge is gone"