The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-11

haps you have been IN the same place, tnat
Stone-Stone place 7"
"Yes," answered Nina " it was in Stone
borough met DIR. Hilton.
"Such an opportunity thrown away p"
plaintively murnured Mrs. Chudleigh to
herself "And the hay-maker raising
her voice. who is he? another of the
Pratt family?"
ALLOW me to formally present him."
said Miss Iascelles, laying her hand on DIR.
Hilton's arm "This is the hay-maker, Mrs
Chudleigh."
"And this is the milkmaid." said the
Young man, covering the hand with his own
The double explanations that followed
were almost as amusing as the preceding
cross purposes. Mrs. Chudleigh, the mat
ter fully understood, was entirely delighted; /;
DR.. Hilton not so entirely; still he man
aged to reconcile himself somehow to mar
rying a spoiled heiress, and it is to be con-
cluded that neither has regretted the step,
for when Nina Hilton next year went to
see how her two little transplanted slips
throve in Scarborough, the whole party
seemed as happy as need be.
The New SCALP.--Here is something re-
markable. A woman in New Haven was
recently bereft of her scalp by the idiosyn-
cracies of a shaft and belt The doctors saw
that to remedy the evil they would have to
recourse to transplantng, and so they actu-
ally succeeded in getting a sufficient num-
Der of pieces from other peoples heads to
give this unfortunate woman a new scalp
We hope those New Haven doctors used
L.
man named Finlay, who met with simi-
lar accident in Oriskany, N. Y, some thir-
teen years ago. Bits of scalp from seven
teen different persons were secured by this
doctor and adrOitly stitched to the head of
Mr.. Finlay. When it was done, people
came miles to see Finlays head, and Finiay
himself, with his checker-board cranium
was the happiest man in Oriskany. But
when the capillary glands got in working
order, and the hair commenced to grow, the
top of that mans head presented the most
extraordinary spectacle on record. The
doctor, who was about half the time in liq-
uor, had consulted expediency rather than
judgment, and secured that new scalp with
out any reference to future developments.
We never saw anything like it. Here was
a tuft of yellow hair, and next to it bit of
black, and then fame of red, and little
like silk, and more like tow, with brown
hair and gray hairs, and sandy hair, and
cream colored hair scattered over his entire
skull. And what mad man that Finlay
was, and nobody could blame him. He
would stand up against the barn for an hour
at time and sob and swear. 1t was very
fortunate that the doctor was dead He
went off two weeks before with blue ague,
which is a mild sort of disease Finlay
kept his hair cut short, but that didn't
make any difference. Then he tried dyes,
but they only made matters worse. Then
he got wig, and this covered up the de-
formty; but sometimes at church he would
get asleep, and the wig would fall off, and
make the children cry. Once at the coun-
try fair he fell asleep and the wig dropped
off, and the committee on domestic goods
when they came around, stood in front of
Finlay's head for some five minutes in wrapt
delight. They then Immediately decided
that it was the most ingenious piece of patch
work in the list, and never discovered the
mistake until they attempted to pin the
premium card to it. At that Finlay awoke,
and knocked down the chairman of the COM
mittee and chased the others out of the
building. We hope those New Haven doc
tors have been more particular, as it is not
subject to trifle with.-Ddnbury NeUs.