Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1875 — A Boil on the Nose. [ARTICLE]

A Boil on the Nose.

It is a little thing, but it is a source <£ untold misery to its unlucky proprietor. We suppose you have had one* Al- . most everybody has. .- /■ v You feel it coming long before it really puts in a decided appearance. Your nose feels tight and straight, and it ache* in little, needle-like pains, and you’ are painfully conseious of the fact that yoa are the possessor of a nose. Whenever, for any eapse, you begin to "Be more conscious of owning one organ of the body than another,“then be assured there is disease there. A person in perfect health knows no ears, no eyes, no limbs, no feet—they are all concentrated in one comfortable feeling that he is sound in every part. As your nose grows worse you begin to consult a hand-mirror, and set it up against the for a better light. Your nose is like a painting—it requires a full head of light; and indeed it looks as if it had*not only been painted, but varnished. Hourly it loses its fair proportions, and assumes no particular shape. It t twists first to one side, and then to the other; and it bulges out like a broken umbrella, and the space under your eye is puffed and baggy, and the eye itself shows signs of going under. Your wife wants to go to a ball or an opera about that time, but you are too much disfigured to venture, and she is sulky in consequence, and spitefully she wishes she had married a man who wasn’t foreverlastingly having boils. And she adds that she might as well have been Mrs. Job, and done with it. Your small children eye you curiously and tell you confidentially that your nose looks just like old Blazo’s when he’s tight; and they embrace the first opportunity of asking their mother “if she thinks father drinks.”

Everybody you meet asks you if you have been fighting. People in the streetcars stare at you, and whisper about small-pox, and move farther off. §1 School-girls giggle when they meet you, and from small boys you get saluted in this wise • “ Say, nose! where are you going with that man*” How earnestly you watch the rising and swelling of your tormentor! No culturist of roses ever watched the unfolding of some new and rare variety of rosebud with any more solicitude. How long it is coming to a head! Everybody laughs at your uneasiness and tells you to be patient. How slow the time is in passing! Will it never be next week? Why doesn’t the abomination break? Will it leave a scar? What did make it come? Will there be more of them? Why didn’t you appreciate your felicity when you hadn’t any boil? At last, after you have completely given out and have become resigned to a, perpetual boil on your nose, the swelling suddenly collapses, the “core” comes out, “Richard is himself again!” —Kate Thom , in N. Y. Weekly. —ln the Tufts Collegian Mr. Z. L. White endeavors to impress upon students the. necessity of a more careful study than has heretofore been given to the fundamental principles which underlie sound political science. Every graduate should be thoroughly familiar with the theory of our government, and the relation of its different tranches to each other and to the people, and more attention should be given to the political history of the United States. Now the future looks brighter. The Treasury Department acquiesces in the judicial decision that German sausages are exempt from duty under the special provision for Bolcgna sausages, and, therefore, no appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court. —The Educational law passed by the last Texas Legislature fixes the compensation of public schools in that State at ten cents per day for each pupil in actual attendance.