St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-16

ments, his picture is here reproduced
TO show the public the sort of mon
frosty he has succeeded in making of
himself. Three centuries ago Elizabeth
imposed tax of 3 ShilIings pence on
boards of fOrtnight's growth. If that
law prevailed today as a graded tax.
Former Larow would be compelled to
pray and labor right manfully for good
crops or else go out of the whiskers
business.
England has hirsute freak in the
person of Richard Latter. now residing
in London. His beard is ten feet in
!engtn. From the picture submitted.
MI. latter might be taken for snake
cnarmer, the snake" in question being
Mi. Latter'S beard, which he has in
geniously plated and which he is fond
ing with the pride of man eXperI-
menting for the first time with garden
hose. NJ. Louis COulon, OF France, is a
sculptor who is content to worry along
with beard only seven feet six and
one-half inches in length. However, as
IL is still growing, it seems to bear out
Rosalind'S prediction concerning Or
lando's beard: God will send more if
the man will be thankful" NJ. Coulon
went out of Sculpturing. with all its
vlclSSltudes, when his neighbors began
to call attention to his beard, and is now
exhibiting himself to admiring crowds
with all the pride of Barnum's bearded
lady or the prize idiot who bet on Mr..
Clay.
Arthur G. Massey. of this city. is an
other gentleman with beard. That is
to say, he had Il beard, for Mr.. Massey
mas gone into court and sworn that un-
der provocation of the most insignificant
nature one Moses King did lay vio-
lent and INSCRIPTIONS hands on that
beard, and did yank therefrum a growth
10 the extent of at least three inches,
thereby causing great bodily pain and
considerable personal Disagreement.
Wherefore Mr.. Massey prayS that he
may be sootned and compensated in the
sum OF $4,000. And this suggests an
interesting computation. If three
inches of chin whiskerS are valued at
$4,000, Mr.. Larow's beard would stand
him in for 100000 and NJ. Coulon's for
S3OO,OOO, while Mr. Latter might Justly
expect to receive the enormous sum of
100000. These figures are truly be-
wildering.
1t would be manifestly unfair to
prejudice a jury at this stage, but it
does seem as if this rating of hair is
tribe high. Or course, Mr.. Massey has
whlskerS. and it is pleasant to know
that he has proper consideration for his
personal apDurtenances. At the same
time, barring the indignity, it is an open
question whether his appearance was
not benefited by this seeming act of
vandalism. Perhaps Providence guided
Mr.. Kings hand after ALL
A study of these gentlemen, who are
bearded to an extent that would shame
the pard, does not lead to the conclusion
that their hair improves their personal
appearance. In point of fact, it gives
them patriarchal sembIance. but there
Is something more or less distressing in
the thought Of counterpart of the
grand old patriarchS chasing the army
worm in Missouri or posing in side
show III the French provinces. And in
gazing upon these boards and rejecting
Oil their possibilities. the reader is re-
minded sadly or poor Hans Steininger.
Hans had an abnormaily long growth
OH his chin, and when he went up and
down stairs he was compelled to hold I'D
his beard as ladies hold up their dresses.
One day he neglected this precaution,
and, descending the stairway hastily,
trod on his beard, plunged violently for
ward and dashed out his brains, or what
were chartably supposed to be brains.
The superiority of mind over matter,
which led to the invention and popu-
larity of the razor, has caused so great
decline in boards that except in the
back-country districts the long, goat
like appendage has almost entirely dis
appeared, and even the short beard has
greatly waned in popularity. 1t is to
this change in public sentiment and
proper appreciation of the beauty and
symmetry of the human face that the
feelings of wonderment and pity for
such exhibitions afforded by Farmer
Larow are due.