Arizona silver belt., 1892-11-19

NuA hOA IhAfNtAN AEtAfAAtfs AlAiiA tt tt'tAf ing mass on the ground. It was this incident that probably gave rise to the couplet;
 When Greek meets Macedonian
 Then comes the tug of beard
 An old veteran by the name of Alex ander saw ct once the weak point of the Greciau forces and ne called in a loud voice, "Oh with every beardp That settled it. Tho next day committee called on tho army with ripsaw and bucket of shlve and amputated every beard in sight. This IS an account of the first shave known to history The rec ord of the first bdrbering is q frontlet of curls made for princess in the east 3,000 years ago, now in the British nut scum. Homer has Che tiyst reference to the razor iu the Eighth century, B. C. He says. with sono feeling:
 Death or lie sts,nds on Q razor's edge.
 After the rape of the boards of the Grecian army shaving became popalar with some, but not until 9 much later day, and when Greece had started doTn the tuboggan slide of aGyersity, did it become general. h fact it is q well known fact among historians that tle fashion of smooth faces among the men has marked tho eTemiaacy weakness and final downfall of all nations. The Romans were always partial to boards until tho Roman empire became too big for it's clothes and acquired g swagger, when Hadrian set the example of Q smooth chin in 1Ol A. D. and gave t5e Roman barbcrs a boom. The first men tion Of barbers is by Pliny. Somewhere along about 296 J. C. Scipio Africanu8 took 3 jauut to Sicily and there saw some barbegs. They plcased him. and he brought 300 hack to Rome aud lad bis beard taken of.
 SciPio was a good deal of Ward Mc Allatar iu his day, and the Roman sweils rapidly followed suit. After that it got to be a common sight iu Rome for a row of men to sit until r o'clock Sat urday night and listen for "Nezt. But this was only among the Four Hundred The bone and sinew of the Roman re- public swore by their boards All through the orient short har and beard- less chins have always meant a condi- ton of mourning and seryitude. A long beard was priceless, and the Moham. meGans still swear by their boards. The prophet EzeSiel, as early as Js5 B. C., was directed to take a barber's razor upon i5 head aud upon hi5 heard in sign of the ruin 10 come upon israol,
 The men were set free, but were ashamed to go to David with any of their beard gone. He found them, l.ow- ever, ard sent them on vacation Co let their boards grow out. An cd Ggecl, known among his friends as Zoilius, who lived in 500 B. C., and was dropped off prccipice for criticising Homer, had very long beard and 90 soliciJ5us was he that long hair on his head might detract from the strength of the beard that he kep. his noddle clean shayen. | After Thomas More had taken leave Of ' hi5 daughter at the foot of the scado,d, in l555, his chief anxiety was that the 1 headsman might injure his beard. | The finest beard on record belongel to Gllauue the priest, bishopof Clcrmont, | who founded the college for Jesuits at ' Paris late in the Eighteenth century, | This beard was long, wayy and soft as silk. But his beard was his downfall 1 His brother bishops became jealous of it, and decided that it must come off. 1 This was dccreed at secret council, and the next morning when the priest entered the chapel three men met him with soap, hot water, razor and shears and laid hold Of him. He broke away. sliedaddled and took refuge in castle, where he died of yexation,
 The only exceptions where boards have not been considered as advanta- geous appurtenances were among the Germans, the Egyptians and in the early colonial days among the Ppritans, The ancient German youth was not allowed to shave until he had slain an enemy in battle, and among the New England Puritans long boards were sometimes fcrcibly reaped, because the idea pre- vailed that pride lurked behind yener- ! able beard. It was not until the begin ! ming of the present century that the long beard went entirely out of fashion. ! Since then smooth faces have been on the increase, and any person who will take the trouble to notice the men who ! pass q given point for an hour on any of 1 the busy streets of Chicago will see but ! a very few long beards. It is not im- | probable that in another century, if the beard is continually cropped, the long l beard will no longer grow and will be- come thing of history and story books. Chicago Inter Ocean.
 
 Appropriations of sheIlac.
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