The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-27

been buried. He had kept no
copis, or they had been lost. At all
events he could furnish none, and
when they asked him to rewrite the
verses he declared that he was ut
terly unable to do so.
At last his friends importuned
him for permission to have the
original manuscripts exhumed. He
consented after some hesitation, and
all the necessary preliminarieS
having been complied with the
grave, which had been sealed for
many years, was opened.
PONDER THAN.THE IvY's EMBRACE.
Then a strange thing was found.
The casket containing the poems
had proven to be of perishable
material, and its cover had crumbled
away. The long tresses of the girl
had grown after death, and had
tWined and intertwined among the
leaves of the poets paper, cOiling
around the written words of love in
a loving embrace long after death
had sealed the lips and dimmed the
eye that had made response to that
/ love.
There is nothing improbable in
the story so far as it relates to the
physical phenomenon. That hair
grows after death is too we'll estab-
lished a fact to be challenged, and
is readily enough to be understood
by any one who will give even a
little study to its formation, it
being an appendage to the human
form, and not, strictly speaking, a
part of it. 1t might indeed be al
most called friendly parasite.
A well.known New York under
taker said yesterday: ga gentleman
who had lost his little boy five or
six years before came to Hthe
establishment where was working
and said he wanted the remains
taken up and carried to Boston. He
had moved to that city, where he
had lost another child, and his wife
was anxious that they should both
be buried in the plot he had bought
in the Laurel Hill Cemetery. This
gentlemen was anxious to see for
himself that everything was done
right, and went over with me to
Greenwood. We had buried the
child, and there was not any trouble
about finding the right grave and
the right coffin, but he was nervous
about it. He insisted on having the
coffin opened after it was taken up
and seeing for himself that there
was no mistake. I had it done, and
as soon as he saw the body he said:
Il knew it; that isn't my boy. His
hair was cut short while he was
sick, and look a. thatw In this case
there was rather unusual growth.
1 should say the hair was a foot
long. In cases where the body has
been buried good many years-say
a hundred years-the hair is some
times found yard long on a mans
head, and much longer, of course, on
! a Woman'S."
OTHER EXPERIENCES.
Another undertaken said that he
was employed at one time to remove
a great number of bodies that had
been buried in cemetery which
had been sold. They had lain I'M
disturbed for an average of about
seventy-fve years, anG in nearly
one-half the cases the hair on the
heads of the men was from afoot to
a foot and a half long. In cases of
women it was evident enough from
the arrangement Of their hair that
it had grown a great deal after
death. There was no way, so far as
he knew, of determining what
causes the difference between cases,
some hair growing and other APP
parently not growing or only grow
ing little, but he said he believed
that in cases of fever there was apt
to be such a growth.
It might be supposed that if
post norton growth of hair is as
common as has been indicated, men-
ton of the fact would have been
made in the accounts that have
been preserved of the removal of the
remains of noted persons after
burial; but the only such instance
that is recalled is that of Napoleon
I. Of him it is said that when his
| body was removed from st. Helena
to France it was found that the hair
had grown to great length.-New
| York Hernld