The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-11-19
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NOSES tLAssIPIRD.

Francis Grose, In his npendlx TO
llogarth's "Elements Of Beauty" de-
llneates eight typical noses. There Is
the angular, the aquIIine or Roman,
the parrots beak, the straight or Gre
clan, the bulbous or bottled the turned
up or snub, and the mixed or broken.
or the latter, by the way, the noses
OF at least two illustrious men may be
taken as Observation-Disclosures Brnhe
and Michael Angelo, the latter OF
who owed his ungraceful appendix
to blow from companion with
whom he was at variance, who thus
disfigured tho great artist for life and
then fed. To these may be added
the orator Cicero, upon whom Nature
seems TO have bestowed n nasal organ
OF q type decidedly "mlxed'' II not
broken. Plutarch In his life of the
querulous Roman, says that he had a
fiat execresence on the top of his nose
In the shape Of Yetch--cicer in Latin
from which he took his surname.
pliny says, with more probability,
that the name originated in an exen-
sive cultivation OF vetchcs, Just 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
Il accords with the traditional belief
that this description OF nose Is usually
Indicative Of fiery, quick, impetu-
Gus temper, Cicero having possessed
this characteristic In marked de-
gree. Horace seemed 10 have re-
garded the short nose, with little
turn up ut the end, as the mark OF n
person gwen n good deal TO jibIng
and Jeering. Martial calls 1t the rhi-
noceros 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 Grose calls II,
Is the long, clearly cut, pointed organ,
and was, no doubt, the type TO which
Horace alludes when he says that It
Is indieitive OF satirIcal wit. The
"paTrot beak" Is the nose with which
Mr. Punch usually adorns his Charlie
ature OF the Sultan or Khedive, and
Is akin 10 the typical Jewish nose all
over the world. The eight types
given embrace every description Of
the feature, and students OF charica-
ture are strongly recommended In
the treatise alluded TO TO make them
selves perfectly familiar with the
simple lines by which these curiously
comprehensive sketches are effected.
a very singular fuct hf- hecn OBJ
served with regard not ~ much TO
the shape Of the nose tt. 10 the setting
OF II In the face, ~ Ia speak ~ be
strictly correct from The artists point
OF view, the nose should be nccuraie-
Is In the middle uf the face and nt
right angles with line ftom the pu.
Pill of one eye Ia that nf the other.
As matter of fact II j. rarely or
never found thus placed. Il j. alma-i
invariably little outof the "s1uare, -
and the fact OF its being - l. often
that which lends n peculiar express
sion and piquancy 10 the face. 4
medical writer points out that there
are anatomical reasons why Il slight
deviation from the true central line
may be expected, and that the nose
which is thus accurately straight be-
tween the two eyes may he considered
an abnormal one, aud that the only
absolutely correct organ Is that which
thus deviates little tu the right ol
left.