The Shasta courier., 1866-01-13
SHASTA COURIER.
Extraneous Hair.

Peter Massias relates that at place
named " Holy Rock, y upon the conhnes oi
Pisa. girl was born completely covered with
hair The circumstance is attributed 10 lhe
fact that her mother was in the habit OF IN
duIeinc in morbid ruminatlon op a picture
of St. John the Baptist. in his harry gar
ments that hung at her bedside. In lol0,
Rngrieri rave an account of woman, aged
81 Who from shoulders to knees, was cover
oil with soft. black. woolly hair, . like that
of n noodle dog In 1929, a man was seen
.,t Aro Inv a member of an embassy to that
rao;on who was covered with hair from head
to foot On his face, nose and ears it was s
inches long. and 4 or inches on the shoul
ders and breast. Fry, the traveller, saw a
fakir who had hair on his breast measuring
lG inches. Oliver, a contemporaneous
French physician, speaks in recent paper
of a voung lady with an extraordinary fair
skin, and beautiful deep black hair, who, in
the course of recovery from fever, found
the whole surface of her body in the pecu-
liar state sometimes exhibited upon exposure
in cold weather. being covered with what
are commonly termed goose rimples. y
These remained, and in the course of few
days. each became dark at the summit, and
month, these hairs had grown so fast she
was entirely covered, excepting only her
face, her palms, and the soles of her feet,
with a coat of hair an inch in length.
We are told by Elbe, that during the
reign of Maria Theresa, there was female
hussar in the army possessing strong
moustaehe. who served several years, rising
to the rank of captain. In the last century,
there lived woman called the Dearueu
Virgin of Dresden, whose portrait has Deen
preserved According to Micheils' her
beard. which was three inches long, grew
from each side of her chm, and was Oh
snowy whteness. At first she cut every
month, then every fortnight, and eventually
twice a week. Contrasting strongly with
her white beard was moustache Of short
black hair. 1t is said she had voraclous
appetite. loud voice, and was person OF
undoubted courage and boldness.
A Young woman of %. native of Switz-
c-Iand. applied at the Charing Cross Hos
pita, London, for certificate OF her sex, IN
order to satisfy the scruples of a clergyman
before whom she had come TO get married,
who could not believe that whiskers and
heard four inches long were consonant with
her representations. 1t seems that she was
born with hair upon her face, and that, at
eight years, it had attained length of two
inches. She stated that she had a brother
quite as remarkable for the absence of beard.
She had no moustache. A sister, two years
younger, possessed the same peculiarities.-
Subsequently, to her marriage, she was ex-
hibited in london, under the appellation of
the . Hairy Prodigy"
DR.. Grau, of Louisville, has made known
the case of woman, aged Is, healthy, and
the mother of large family, whose face, at
the sides, on the chin and lips, was covered
thickly with coarse hair, which she was
obliged to shave off as often as once in a week.
She was extremely masculine in appearance
in fact the long hair of her head was ap
parently her sole feminine characteristic.