Connecticut western news., 1874-07-31

 good dinner. This need not prevent us from pursuing it as a subject; showing wherein the importance of the organ is not duly estimated.
 As feature of the face it,more than any other, changes it's character, although not so capable of expression as the eyes and mouth. Its ideal beauty varies with differ ent races. The Africans of Sierra Leone prize the flat nose, consider them the very highest type of beauty. The most beauti- because she had only two holes where the nose ought to have been. There seems to be no uniyersCl standard of nasal beauty. | The Romans adorn the aquiline, the Greek | the straight line; the latter, coming nearest our idea of the beautiful, is accepted as the standard in this latitude.
 But there are other uses for the nose be- Yond it's element of beauty or the reverse. The sense of smell is popularly supposed to be the only service it is called upon to perform, at least we should judge so from the number of open mouths we meet sail sailing along the streets. One of the main objects of the nostrils is for respiratory purposes. There is very little doubt that air passing through the nostrils is refined, purified and eliminated of all injurious gases, infection and dust before being per mitted access to the lungs. It is very easy to see how habitual respiration through the mouth, is not only unnatural, but productive of disease. More especially at night we should accustom ourselves to sleep with the mouth closed. All the energies of tbe sys- tenn are then at rest, and its power of re sistance at the lowest ebb. If the mouth be open the enemy is allowed to enter, and we may be sure he fastens upon the most delicate part of an organization.
 In recent lecture by Prof. Tyndall he demonstrates fully the danger of sleeping with the mouth open, a practice unknown to the lower animals. He says: If were to endeaYor to bcqueath the most important motto which human language can convey, it should be these words: Shut-your- mouth.
 In tue transactions of life this might have it's beneficial results, as the most friendly cautionary advice, or be received as the grossest of insults but when I would print and engrave it in eyery!nursery and on every bed-post in the universe, its meaning would not be mistaken, and if obeyed, it's importance would soon be re alized.'
 Battell.T The New York O5scrUer of July 22nd has the following obituary of MT. Jo- seph Battell, born in Norfolk, Ct., in 1903, whose death occurred in Brooklyn on the 8th inst;
 ''He graduated at Middlebury college, in Vermont, in 1920, at the age of IF years,
 ranking second in class of which Profes-
 sor Conant, the eminent biblical scholar
 and critic, was the valedictorian. He made
 himself master of the French. German and
 Spanish languages soon after leaving col
 lege, at time when the study of the last
 two especially was rare in this country, and
 he was through life diligent and apprecia
 tive student of the best English literature
 Influenced probablylby the example and the
 wishes of his father, he early engaged ir
 business as merchant, finding a congenia
 associate in the late Thomas Egleston, witt whom his partnership continued in unbro
 ken mutual confidence and regard until the
 death of MT. Egleston. But his interest ir
 literature never ceased, although with char acteristic and scrupulous reserve he allowed , it to appear only to those most intimat, with him. One who had been his ministe
 for years did not learn till near the end O them, and then only by chance, that whel
 MT. Battell followed the reading of th
 Scriptures, Sunday by Sunday, it was witt , his eye on the Greek of the Septuagint O of the New Testament, and not on the Eng fish translation.
 Independent in his judgments, rapid ant :. positive in his decisions, perhaps stiff in hi prejudices, he was not unfrequently brusqu
 in manner; and those who had occasion t
 know him only in general way woult
 probably fail to be attracted by him. The, might be repelled; for if men did not talk . his first answer as final they sometimes go q it sharply emphasized. But in moment , of leisure, in seasons of relaxation, anon .. his friends. he was one of the pleasantes f of companions. Cheerful in temper. coul
 teous in demeanor, original in thought z abundant in witty and humorous anecdote T he added to the charm of every social cil o cle in which he was familiar. Shrewd i l. Judgment, energetic in expression, genis 7. in feeling, the force ot his strong individu D ality gave zest and plquancy to his conve, , sation. As presiding officer too, in mee ings for deliberation or for the transactio | of business, he was always distinguishe r for the grace and dignity with which h :, performed the duties of the of1ce o s'Born of the genuine Puritan stock, NJ t- Battell was through life firm believer i the evangelical doctrines in which he ha ,- been trained, careful and attentive attend .a ant on public worship, liberal supporte =, of religious institutions and charities. Bt ,a sides large gifts to institutions of learnin like Yale colege-whose new chapel is 1 :, bear his name-he aided liberallY other ol ,f iects of public importance, and privatel p contributed to the succor of many who WI a long remember and greatly miss his timel
 benefactions. Most of all, his sisters al Ia brothers, to whom, after their father n, death, he was the constant counsellor ar if friend, have had reason to trust him vii v. all their hearts, and will have reason mourn his departure from them while Ii in continues.
 A "He died after a brief illness with SC ly tied and tranquil trust in God, an unreser 1e ed submission to His will, and an earne # l. L;c tbo oI