Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1895 — THE LOSE OF THE NOSE. [ARTICLE]

THE LOSE OF THE NOSE.

What Happened to a Man Who Re* placed That Organ Wrong. The presence of mind shown by ai Ohio physician saved, a man a nose, says the Pittsburg Bulletin. That useful member was severed by a fall upot a sharp corner, and the attendant M. D., by promply placing the sundered piece where it belonged, secured a healing “by first intention,” and the subsequent restoration of the or-“ ganyplus an ugly scar. ■ Less successful was the replacing ol a nose by a young man of this city many years ago. While engaged in playfully “fencing” with a companion a reckless pass cleanly cut . off. the young fellow’s nose. He had not studied physiology for nothing, and acting upon this knowledge grabbed the severed organ and clapped, it on the bleeding surface it had just quitted. Then his nose was bound-firmly on and nature was left ‘totake her course. She did this admirably. When the bandages were removed the- two parG were lound to be grown together beautifully. Nothing could be nicer, except that the unfortunate young man had put his nose on upside down! The nostrils stood as open tp heaven-as the flues at the apex of a chimney. The memories that come down through a vista of thirty years, since this sad affair took place, are a trifle misty and unreliable as to the subsequent career of the man with the inverted nose. He is believed to be dead. During his life, however, he was known to declare that for purposes of snuff-taking he had the very finest nose in the world, but that to be caught in a heavy shower without aE umbrella was tantaihount to drowning. 1 hose that are suddenly deprived of a nose should be careful to replace il with the perforations down. Hu mat life is made up of trifles, and some oi these have power to engender discomfort when it comes to an upside down nose.