The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-22

performance is gone through An average
head of hair weighs four ounces. When
sufticient hair is accumulated il is sold
to the hair manufacturers. who submit il
to process of cleansing and suiting il
into various lengths and shades II is
then ready for the wigmakers, who buy
4u 0os FCebe require it, paying at the rate of
20 cents or so per ounce fer lengths OF
10 inches to T. inches 20 as many shit
lings as there are inches for lengths OF
IS inches and upwards. The greatest &C.
mand is for hair from IA to q inches in
length The longest female hair on rec
ord is p inches.
The Tycoon of Japan once coniiscated
the hair of a whole province and had il
woven Into a ships hawser over a quar-
ter of mile long. Then he iiscoveed
that steel ropes were in existence and
now the cable, composed of the pigtalls
of the unfortunate Japs, reposes before
the eyes of the curios in Bethnal Green
Museum.
The gentleman interviewed possesses a
magnificent trophy of hair, in size some
three feet long by two feet high, in the
form of a basket of flowers, every leaf
every petal and every stem Is composed
of cunningly wrought hairs from the l.
man head. How long it took to create
it is impossible to say, but years unques-
tionably. He has other similar displays.
mostly the work of himself or his son,
though they pale into insignifcance beside
the monument of patience in question.
The working of hair into ornaments has
gone out of vogue considerably of late
years, but seafaring men even now are
great lovers of this form of rnernento Nat
urally. their favorite designs assume the
forms of anchors, compasses and other
things nautical.
one day gentleman came to the subject
of this article and desired him in a most
mysterious manner to weave some hair,
which he gave him, into the form of a SER
pent, the head and tail were TO be of gold.
and the tail was to be fixed into the mouth.
The serpent was TO be in two coils, and to
encircle a golden heart pierced by a dagger.
In order to thoroughly comprehend the de-
sign he had to be let into the secret. and
this was the explanation which was Of
fered:
The serpent was to represent the nature
of certain young lady TO whom the hair
belonged, and who had Tilted the gentleman
in question. The golden heart was svm-
bolic of his pure and worthy affection. and
the dagger showed how deeply he had been
wounded. The tail of the serpent being in
its mouth, indicating that in injuring her
quondam lover, she had also bitten herself.
The Tilted swain was most particular about
the execution of the work, sent it back
twice for alterations. and finally refused
10 have 1t at all, perhaps discovering the
bathos OF his scheme.
Another strange story he relates is in
connection with mourning ring. One day.
whilst his daughter was in charge. two
women came into the shop, and whilst
pretending to be inspecting some hair lew
elry, managed to steal rather valuable
ring. Many months went by and the Incl
dent, save creating a suspicion concern
ing shaky customers, had passed from
mind. one day gentleman came in and
desired to see the proprietor. He was out.
but to his wife he handed a ring, saving
that they would doubtless understand. The
daughter recognized 1t as the stolen ring
ana the restorer, seeing the questioning
looks upon the faces of the women, said:
am a Roman Catholic priest, and re-
ceived the ring from dying woman with
request that would return IL To Won
That Is ALL"