Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-04-04
THE HUMAN NOSE.
celebrated Men Who Had Large
0lfactory Organs
The Most Characteristic Fea-
ture of the Face.

The nose forms one of the charater-
Etic features of the human face, and
TIE more one studies it, the more he
will appreciate its Importance. There
are fourteen bones in the nose and
mass of cartilages which are ossified in
to immovable rigidity. 1t is an un-
bending nose; it will domineer; it will
dictate; it will subdue. There are no
two noses alike, but all noses have
many things in common. For exam
pile, all noses sneeze, snarl, snuff, snore,
snort, sneer, sniff shuttle. snig-
ger and snivel. Noses mark the
regularity of races and the grada-
tions of society. The noses of Austria
lans. the Is quimaux and the Africans
broad, flat and weak-mark their men
tai and moral characteristic. The
striking difference between the African
negroes and the North American Indian
is sculptured on their noses. The Cau-
casian has prominent and we'll de fined
nose and he leads in subduing the
world.
The Chinese have bad noses, and they
are intellectually superior race, but
they are not really a proper exception.
for they fatten the noses of their chill
dren in infancy. They have cul tivated
small and fiat noses for generations
upon some absurd notion that the eyes
are the more important and should not
be obscured by the nose.
If you look at the progress of indi.
vidual life the contour of nose marks
all its stages. Who ever saw baby
with Roman or aquiline nose, or even
Grecian' The baby nose is little
snub, the nose of weakness and unde-
velopment. The chid's nose keeps its
inward curve; in youth it straightens,
and then comes, in certain characters
asd races, the bold outward curve of
the aquilinc or the stronger promi-
nence OF the Roman. 1t may stop at
any point in the march of progress
and present case of arrested develop
ment. And we all feel instinctively
that certain shaped nose is the proper
index of certain character.
Almost all great men have been re-
markabe for their noses, either as to
shape, or size or color. Scipio Nasica
derived his name from the prominent
share of this feature possessed by him;
the immortal Ovid, surnamed Naso, was
Mr.. Nosey, or bottle nose. Socrates
had snub, but he was frank enough
to admit that in his heart he was very
bad man. Training did much for him,
as it does for anybody; but man who
enters life with snub is seriously
handicapped. In the medals of Cyrus
and Artaxerxes the tips of their noses
come clear out to the rim of the coin.
Antiochus VIII. was an imposing prince.
They called him "Gyprus" because his
nose was as big and as hooked as vul-
ture's beak. Bnt then the ancient Per-
slams permitted only the owners of large
noses to enjoy royal honors. Numa's
nose was six inches in length, whence
he obtained his surname of Pompilius,
as being the owner of a superlative
nose. Lycurgus and Solon, according
to Plutarch, were distinguished in tn,
same manner.
Mohammed' nose must have been
curiosity. 1t was so curved that the
point seemed to be endeavoring to in
sert itself between his lips. At later
time phenomenal nose must have been
that of the Great Frederick of Prussia.
Lavater offered to wager his reputation
that blindfolded he could tell it out of
10, 600 other noses by simply taking it
between his thumb aud forefinger. The
nose of the Emperor Rudolph of Aus
tria saved his life in an odd kind of
way. During one of his campaigns 6
troop of knights entered into a con.
spiracy to kill him. A peasant who
was employed about the tents of the
conspirators one evening overheard
them say: Tomorrow we II surprise
his old big nose and cut him to pieces.
After his work was over the peasant
started out to visit some friends in an
other part of the camp. The Emperor
who was going about with some of his
knights, meeting the man, asked who