Answers to Questions on Noses
1. Tycho Brahe, the Danish Astronomer, having lost his nose in a duel, attached a golden one to his face with cement.-2. The Prioress in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Prologue).-3. Imposed by Danes in the 9th century. Those who refused to pay had their noses slit.-4. Captain .Fitzroy at first refused to take Darwin on the ' Beagle,' on - account of his " inadequate nose."-5. (a) Wellington and Olivett Cromwell were both nicknamed " Nosey." (5) Henry VIII. (for minting inferior coins, on which the copper alloy soon showed through).-8: Gregory the Great enjoined its .use, after :a plague, in which sneezing was a mortal symptom. -7. Miss Trotwood in David Copperfield (ch.1).-8. The Shunam- Mite's child, when Elisha raised it from the dead (2 Kings, iv., 35). —9. The Little Vulgar Boy (" Misadventures at Margate" *Ingoldsby LegOride, R. H. Barham).-10. Marion's " When -icicles-hang by the wall" (Love's Laboiir's, Lost, act V., sc. 2). 11. In " Gareth and Lynette " (Idylls of the King, Tennyson). 12. Coleridge, described by Hazlitt in The Dacia' l,-NO:-D14 1823. —13. Charles Lamb, Table Talk, January 4, 1823 (" You abuse snuff : probably it is the final cause of the human nose.").
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