ALL ABOUTA NOSE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 10, 21 November 1877, Page 3

ALL ABOUT A NOSE.

The following appears m a. late San Francisco exchange: — -J'A new and curious suit ,Jias just been commenced against Dr Loryea, proprietor of the Hammam Baths. It appears that about a month ago a gentleman visited the establishment for the purpose of taking a Turkish Bath. He was an old soldier, who, at the battle of Gettysburg, received a sabre cut across^ the face which had neatly mown off almost his entire nose. A Parisian artist, of world- wide renown, -had restored the gallant colonel's personal beauty by constructing for him a proboeis so natural and so - elegantly fitting that his most intimate friends supposed it was real, and that it had, grown again naturally during his trip to Europe. Unfortunately, however, there was some rubber and gum m the compositiori of the artificial nasal organ, of which fact the artist had not thought it necessary to acquaint the col- ' onel, never supposing that he would subject it to a temperature of 184 deg. Farenheit. However, the officer m question took his bathj and noticed nothing peculiar until he came to dress himself and took .a look m the, glass, when he found that the extreme heat of the " Callidarium " had caused the organ m question to* blister all over and tb'bulge on^both sides for at least half an inch. It ' was impossible to detach the structure, which is so Welded to the actual outside that the, two had grown together," and it will cost 1,000 dollars m Paris to have his nose fixed over again, besides the expense of the trip. The liideoiis appearance of the poor gentleman can be better imagined than described, and the worst yet remains to be told. He was engaged to a beautiful' young lady, who has since gone insane after seeing him m his altered condition, and all his associates avoid him when' they meet him m the street. Tlndeithese circumstances he has brought a suit against Dr. Loryea for 75.0C0 dollars damages done to his feelings, 200 dollars for the loss of .his brideV 9JOOO dollars for the original cost of his proboscis, trip to Europe, and repairs to same.