The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-04-17
STARTLING DISCOVERIES.
The Professors of Heidelberg Come to
 the Front with Curious Facts

the Front with Curious Facts.
 It has always been known that. as a feature on which to hang an estimate of character the nose stands supreme and without rival Napoleon said
 " l care nothing about the size or pre- vious condition of men'> feet but give me man with nose Cesar. prom inent man and quite well known soldier of his day valued the noses of other men and placed such a valuation on his own nose that once when an aequaint ance tried to take it away from him, the noble Roman objected in a dcmonstra- tive manner. Yes the importance al the nose was known to the ancients but not until recently has it been fully un- derstood Prof Non Nealhoot. of the University of Heidelberg, in Il recent paper read before the Society for the Investigation of Facial Eccentrcities, brought forward peculiar fact which has resulted in startling discovery The following k an extract from the paper:
 We all knew Colonel Gimcrhcim to be a man of dauntlcss courage in fact a man with no conception of fear He was most highly pleased when peril Was greatest He was entrusted with many commissions the execution of which re quired dash and fearlessne,, In cer- tain encounter the colonel lost d part of his nose a piece about the size and shape of an ordinary pear We sym pathzed with him but felt no apprehen- sion as We knew that he would soon re cover About two months later he re- turned to the field What change His eye no longer glittered with fiery delight, restless in desire for encounter He did not Straighten up as was his wont and impart encouragement by his august bearing but he walked with d >louching gait and rode like mill boy. When the next battle came on he in- gloriouSly ran away When he was brought back hi, commanding officer said to him:
 Gimerheim, am astoni>hed at you Take your place sir or will send you in disgrace to prison.
 " Send me anywhere and in any way, the colonel replied, but for heavcns sake don't send me down there where those reckless men are shooting at each other General, those men are blazing away right at each other and the first thing you know somebody, going to get hurt would like to accommodate you, but believe I'll go to prison
 Nothing after that could induce him to fight, and the last time l saw him he was working on fortitcation> happy SO long as he was out of danger Now, what caused this great change? The loss of nose
 The society before which the paper was read was SO impressed that an inyc,- tigation and experiments were ordered. The bully of the university. ayoung man who had whipped everything in the neighborhood, was induced into a room. Under the pretext of making scientific experiment, which was indeed fact, the professor placed the young fellow under the intiuenc" of chloro- form and cut off part of hi, nose. The rough edges of the remaining piece were trimmed and rounded off and the young man, upon rcgaining conscious ness was told that while under the in- luence of chloroform h. had leaped from a window, had fallen on his nose and that he must remain in bed until he re- covered He promised to do SO and the professors thus far delighted with their experiment gleefully betook themselves to another part of the university. whera Hans Strauss the most notorious cow ard in the country, was found They took Hans into a room, told him that they wanted to mak,. harnle-- expert ment, and put him under the influence of chloroform- They sacrificed his nose, took the large piece of nose wh;ci. they had cut from the bully. and adjusted it on Hans. When Hans awoke, they told him that he had been very violent and hurt himself and that d. he was under treatment he must remain very quiet.
 Two months from that time both men