SALA'S NOSE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1907, 21 April 1885, Page 2

SALA'S NOSE.

In an interview with a San Franscisco Call reporter Mr George Augustus Sala stated that his thirty years of journalistic work have been enlivened by observation in the great pageants of the world during that period. As correspondent of the leading English journals, Mr Sala has visited every part of the civilised world where there was anything worthy of note, and the smallest serap of his reminiscent onversation is necessarily ' interesting, He was as entertaining when talking of himself as the great historic events which his pen had helped to make memorable. The most noticeable of Mr Sala's lineaments is a Bardolphian nose, which the caricaturists are fond of touching up when they pay their respects to him. Talking of Tliakeray's sensativenesa about his ungrecian nasal organ, Mr Sala Sala says laughingly ;My nose has had a good deal of notoriety on account of .its. shape and , rather luminous properties,' I think a good deal of it and I ought to, for it brought me £SOO once, in this. way." .1 had stood a good deal of chaffing in .print about my nose, and at .last a chap who wasn't particularly fond of me concocted a squib, in which he distinctly Baid that the complexion of .my nose proved me to be a Bacchanalian, Now, it so happens that I am not a Bacchanalian, nor had my nose acquired its distinctive character from the mellow influence of wines or spirits. The fact was that in my riotous and unchristian youth, when at college, I had a fight with a fellow who was quite handy with his fiats, and besides woro a heavy diamond ring when the controversy began. Tho result was that between his natural hitting ability and the prominence of his jewellery, I got my nose in such a condition that it required half a dozen stitches to restore it to anything like its original beauty. Conscious, therefore of my integrity, I resolved to take my libeller on the hop, and did so. I sued him fQV libel, and having Bhowedthat my nose was not the advertisement of a Bacchanalian, I got judgment against him for £SOO, which assisted me to make a very pleasant tour of the south of Europe the same summer, So I rather had the laugh of him, and I cannot but have a good opinion of my nose.