ARTIFICIAL ROSES

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 214, 11 September 1886, Page 4

ARTIFICIAL ROSES

Tho Abnormal Proboscis ■which be longed to a French Senator.

Artificial noses aro gonerally nttached to faces by spectacles. About rive yeiirs ago a San Fraucii'CO dentist made for a Chinese woman, whoso face was horribly disfigured, a celluloid nofo. The organ was attached by a gold spring to tho upper jaw, in the manner in which single teeth aro affixed. The spring ran up to where the bridge of tho noso should have been, and to this spring the artificial nose and lip wore attached by an india-rubber loop. The combined pressure of the spring and india-rubbor drew tho celluloid mask so close to tho face that, being moulded to fit tho cheeks, it would havo looked quite natural but for the lack of that transparency which living tissue poesesws. Of course, our funny paragraphcr had to hive hi? say after this bit of news appeared. Ho at onco boldly stated that a man out Weet hod a cork noee. " When ho keeps sober," paid the writer, "it givea him no trouble: but when ho is out drinking with friends they want to borrow it for a stopper every timo they lo?o their corks out of their flasks."

Thero ia a true story of a French Senator, a very handsome man, who hnd a large nose of which he was somewhat prnud. He was once riding in a train, when a child, who was in the same carriage, and who had watched the statesman for some time with dilated eyes, began to cry as if its heart would break. Iho mother could not cooEole it. Tho littlo ono was afraid of the Sonator's bie nofe, and the mother quietly explained that her child had just come from the masquerade, where ho had born particularly excited by the display of largo nosei. Sho concluded by requesting th» statesman to tako ofl" his nose, "for you, I see," Ehe explained, " for some Kood reason bost known to yoursolf aro prolonging the carnival." The Senator protested that he could not accommodato her, assuring tho lady that his proboscis was not a faUe one, but his own. "Touch it," said he. The lady gave a pull at the Senator's nose, but it did not como off in her hand. " A thousand pardons," she said, "but pray—ob, pray hide it with your hat!" The distinguished atatoeman complied with this singular ro qutst, en inued his journey with his nose in his hat, and the child's soroams subsided, —"Brooklyn Magazine."