The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-12-09
Noses Classified.

Francis Grose, in his appendix to Ho-
garth's % Elements of Beauty" define
ates eight typical noses. There is the
angular; the aquiline or Roman; the par
rots beak; the straight or Grecian; the
Dubious or bottled. the turned-up 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 IL
lustrations-TychoB rahe and Michael
Angelo, the latter of whom owed his
ungraceful appendix to a violent blow
from a companion with whom he was
at variance, and who thus disfigured the
great artist for life and instantly fled.
| 10 these may be added the orator
Cicero, upon whom nature seems to
have bestowed a nasal organ of type
decidedly " Mixed" if not broken.
| Plutarch in his life of the querulOus
/. Roman, says that he had fiat eXcres-
cence on the top of his nose in resem-
blance of vetch -cjcer in Latin-from
which he took his surname Piiny says,
with more probability, that the name
originated in an extensive cultivation OF
vetches, lust as others had previously
! been surnamed, 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 ira
| ditional belief that this description OF
nose is usually indicative of fiery,
quick, impetuous temper, Cicero having
| possessed this characteristic in marked
decree. Horace seems to regard the
short nose, with little turn-up at the
end, as the mark of a person given good
/ deal to iibing and jeering. Martial calls
| it the rhinoceros nose, and SAYS that 1t
was highly fashionable in his day every
body affecting this kind of proboscis as
an indication of satirical humor. The
:" angular nose, as Crosse calls it, is
| the long, clearly-cut, pointed organ,
and was, no doubt, the type to which
| Horace alludes when he says that it is
! indicative of satirical wit. The par
rot beakr is the nose with which Mr..
| Punch usually adorns his caricature OF
the Sultan or Khedive, and is akin to
the typical Jewish nose all over the
world: The eight types given embrace
every description of the feature and
| students of caricature are strongly rec
commended in the treatise alluded to to
make themselves perfectly familiar with
the simple lines by which these curious
" 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 the setting of it
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 line from the pupil of one eye to
that OF the other. As a matter of fact
it is rarely or never found thus placed.
1t is almost invariably little out of
the square," aud 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 slight de-
Walton from the true central line may
be expected. and that the nose which is
thus accurately straight between the
eyes may be considered an abnormal
one and that the only absolutely correct
organ is that which thus deviates lit
tie to the right or left.-London Globe.