The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-10-28
AY. ELK COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER %, 1880.
Noses Classified.

Francis Grose, in his appendix to
Hogarth's Elements of Beauty" de-
lineates eight typical noses. There is
the angular; the aquiline or Roman {;
the parrots beak; the straight or Gre
clan; the bulbous or bottled; the
turne dup or snub; and the mixed or
broken. OF the latter, by the way, the
noses of at least two illustrious men
may be taken as illustrations-Tycho
Brahe and Michael Angelo, the latter
of whom owned his ungraceful appen-
dix to violent blow from companion
with whom he was at variance, and
who thus disigured the great artist for
life and instantly fed. To these may
be added the orator Cicero, upon whom
nature seems to have bestowed nasal
organ of type decidedly mixed" if
not broken. Plutarch in his life of the
querulous Roman, says that he had q
| fiat excrescence on the top of his nose
in resemblance of vetch-cicer in
Latin-from which he took his sur
name. Pliny says, with more prob
| ability, that the name originated in an
extensive cultivation of vetches, just as
others had previously been surnaned
| from crops OF other kinds. However
this may be the fact of Cicero's snub
nose may no doubt be accepted, and it
accords with the traditional belief that
this description of noses is usually
indicative of fiery, quick, impetuous
temper. Cicero having possessed
this characteristic in a marked degree.
Horace seems to regard the short nose,
with a little turn-up at the end, as the
mark of a person given good deal to
jibing and jeering. Martial calls it the
rhinoceros nose, and says that 1t was
- II IL sc do
body affecting this kind of proboscis as
an indication of satirical humor. The
"angular" nose, as Grose calls it, is the
long, clearly-cut, pointed organ, and was
no doubt, the type to which Horace al.
ludes when he says that it is indicative
of satirical wit. The "parrot beak " is
the nose with which Mr.. Punch usually
adorns his caricature of the sultan or
khedive, and is akin to the typical jew
ish nose all over the world. The eight
types given embrace every description
Of the feature, and students OF carica-
ture are strongly recommended in, the
treatise alluded to to make themselves
perfectly familiar with the simple lines
by which these curiously comprehensive
sketches are effected.
A very singular fact has been OBJ
served with regard not so much to the
| shape OF the nose as TO tne settlng OF IL
in the face, so to speak. To be strictly
correct from the artists point of view,
the nose should be accurately in the
middle of the face and at right angles
with a line from the pupil of one eye to
that of the other. AS matter OF fact,
| it is rarely or never found thus placed.
II is almost invariably a little out OF
"the square," and the fact of its being
so is often that which lends peculiar
expression and piquancy to the face. A
medical writer points out that there are
anatomical reasons why a slight devia-
tion from the true central line may be
expected, and that the nose which is
thus accurately straight between the
two eyes may be considered an abnormal
one, and that the only absolutely cor
rect organ is that which deviates a little
to the right or left.-London Globe.