The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-10-17
Facial PecullarIties.


MOnthLy tells the following:
I was once sitting in cool under
ground saloon at Leipsic, while without
people were ready to die from the heat,
when a new guest entered and took
seat opposite to me. The sweat rolled
in great drops down his face, and he
was kept busy with his handkerchief till
at last he found relief in the exclama-
ton:
''Fearfully hot!"
Iwatched him attentively as he called
for cool drink, for I expected every
moment that he would fall from his seat
in a fit of apoplexy. The man must have
noticed that was observing him, for he
turned toward me suddenly, saying:
ST am curious sort of a person, am
not?"
"Why?" asked.
Because perspire wholly on the
right side"
And so it was; his right cheek and the
right half of his forehead were as hot as
fire, while the left side of his face bore
not trace of perspiration. had never
seen the like, and, in my astonishment,
was about to enter into conversation with
him regarding the physiological curiosi-
ty, when his neighbor on the left broke
in with the remark:
'"Then we are the opposites and coun-
on the left side.'
This, too, was the fact. So the pair
took seats opposite to each other and
shocks hands like two men who had Just
found his other half.
'Well, this makes an end of natural
history!' exclaimed another guest, who
hitherto had quietly gazed on this
strange performance as though it were
play, and every one who overheard what
was said came to look at this novel
wonder. ''This makes an end of natural
history!''
This expression excited me to laugh
ter, and involuntarily exclaimed:
''No, sir; this is just the beginning of
natural history, for nature has many
strange caprices even as regards her
symmetry
I then mentioned the case of man I
had known in my boyhood, who, Janus
like, had too totally different faces-on
one side laughing, on the other crying.
Naturally, I dreaded this strange double
face, with one side smooth, plump and
comely, like girls cheek, while the
other was all SCARED by the smallpox.
This side of the face denoted churlish-
ness; and, while the other side wore q
smile, this BODIED mischief. In this in
stance disease had been unsymmetrical.
STANDING BY THEIR CoLoRs.-Two in
stances occurred at the battle of the
Alma wherein the Victoria cross was
earned-pos role-by devotedness to the
colors, saving them in the true military
| sense of the word. The Twenty third
Fusiliers of Browns division went for
ward on the left, with the Scots Fusi-
| liers of the Duke Of Cambridge's divis-
ion in support. They effected the pass
age of the Alma, mounted the rugged
and broken banks, pressed through vine
yards and felled trees, and advanced un-
der CALLING fire of grape and musketry.
There was a redoubt in front. When
near the redoubt the colors were made
the object of particular attention. Luke
| O'Connor was one of the center sergeants
between the officers who bore them.
Lieutenant Anstruther was mortally
wounded and dropped his color. O'Con-
nor was struck in the breast at the same
moment and fell, but, recovering him
self, snatched up the color and carried it
until the end of the action. Color Ser
geant Luke O'Connor, of the Alma, is
now, I am proud to say, Lieutenant
Colonel Luke O'Connor. The other in
stance happened in the supporting regi-
ment. The Scots Fusiliers were thrown
into momentary disorder-one of the ac-
cidents of war; the Twenty third were
confused, as well they might be with
eleven officers and over two hundred
men knocked over, when voice shouted,
'Fusiliers, retireT and the guardsmen,
fancying the order was addressed to
them, hesitated. At this critical moment
Brevet Major Lindsay ''stood firm with
colors, and by his example and energy
greatly tended to restore order Tins
Iey's Magazine.