The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22
TRIALS OF A SENSITIVE MAN.

A correspondent Of the Louisville
Courisr-JoarnaL writes as follows:
Sensitive men are their own persecut-
ors. Remarks and inuendvcs never in
tended for them are seized upon and ap-
propriatcd by them to their own misery.
| once knew a man who would have been
an exceedingly companionablc fellow if
he had not been born with nose; and
such nose! My stars! The very
thought Of that nose at this late dav stirs
up my risihilities to their utmost tension.
He looked as though he had been made
Of mud-for some heather deity-had
been placed out of doors to dry, and the
sun had cracked and blistered his nose.
His nasal appendage, although having
nothing very remarkable about it, with
the exception that there was hump on
its bridge, couple Of wrinkles on the
end. besides being the size of two or
three common noses, was continually get
ting him into scrapes. At college he
CHANGED to receive an abrasion on the
wearing Of piece OF court plaster, and
the sympathy offered him by one of his
fcllow-students came near causing duel.
He stood ever ready at the back Of this
huge protuberancc to push it into Notice,
and when the public were thinking of
neither his nose nor himself, he would be.
speak their patronage by taking excep.
tons to everything said in conversation
when this interesting feature Of the phys.
iognomy was mentioned. On one occa.
sion, while travelling in a stage.coach, the
impression prevailed that one of the
passengers had been left at the stand lust
passed. "Count noses," suggested an
old merchant, whereupon my friend
the stage off in his ire, which was wholly
abated when the old gentleman acknowl.
edged that he was so ncar.si GIFTED that he
was not aware Of the fact that the young
man had any nose at all. On another
occasion ''Noscy' stepped into a we'll
known book store of this city, where
some gentlemen were discussing a newly
elected member of Congress. AS he
passed the party some gentleman re.
marked that he (mcaning the Congress.
MANI, would make very prominent
MEMBER Prominent member" was
AL ''Nosey' heard, when, Of course, he
was boiling over with wrath. He grasped
the arm of one of his friends in the
crowd, drew himainto back room, and
insisted then and there in sendinga chal-
lenge to the offending party. An expla-
nation Of the allusion in the conversation
was promptly made by his friend, when
he quietly subsidized. "Nosey'' then re.
marked to clerk in the store that he
was contemplating a trip to Louisville
by steamboat and wished to purchase an
amusing book to beguile the weary hours
Of the way. The young man innocently
handed him copy Of Tristram Shandy,
which was opened at the chapter on
noses, beginning "Nih1l me Penifet hujus
ndsi.'' The young man was standing on
stool. ''Nosey's face turned scarlet,
and he Immediately let fly his right foot,
which struck the stool and capsizcd the
boy, who came down with loud noise,
and took hard seat on. the floor. The
youth arose, rubbing the affected part,
and inquired, rather vociferously, the
cause Of such treatment. t'Nosey' show
ed him the chapter alluded to, when the
young man made all the necessary expla.
nations without receiving panacea for
his i'll for tune. Shorty after this ''Nosey''
fell in love-nose and all with an orphan
girl who had resided IN Washington city,
and was possessed Of an extended rela-
tlonship. He popped the question, and
received the reply:"I must take the
ayes end noes, as they say in Washing
ton, among half dozen maiden aunts be.