The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1899-02-11
PRICE0F HUMAN HAIR.
Quotations BY the Lock, Head, Ounce,
and Ton.

All previous records in prices paid
for human hair have been broken by
the sum Just realized for a lock from
The head of Edward ~.
Eight giineas was the sum paid for
the scalp OF hair. and this works out
at over el000 Tor the whole hlrsute
covering of that monarch's head.
As a small portion of the beard OF
George III only fetched 81 15c., it
would appear that relics of the victor
of Tewkesbury and Barnet are 10
greater demand than those of the
Georgian monarch
1t Is recorded that in ages past GER
tain countess of Suffolk was forced TO
sell her beautiful hair for ego Ia order
to provide repast wherewiih to re-
gale some notable friends; also that an
0xfordshire girl, being unable to raise
$50 to provide herself with dowry,
came up TO London and sold her hair
at 60 an ounce. and returned to her
native village bearing eco with her,
with which money she y
bought her husbano."
1t Is calculated that something like
five tons Of hair are required annually
by London merchants In hair, aud al
though samples arrive from various
parts of the world. the bulk is chiefly
French and Italian grown.
AT Limoges the annual haIr market
is one Of the great events of the year.
Then the young peasant girls blessed
with lengthy locks flock thither for the
purpose of selling their wigs to the
highest bidder, returning hOme again
with poulatum galore for the purpose
OF cultivating the following years
crop. On the last occasion the average
price was as high as e2 kilogramme,
or about lSs. a pound, but. alas! this
is only just about one.half what it was
IN the palmy days of the chignon.
Naturally the tresses Of novices who
take the veil figure largely in the hair
harvest. Some little time ago a con
vent is said TO have sold over ton OF
human hair for $4,000 or rs. 3D.. pei
ounce, while a single convent neal
Tours recently dispatched as much as
eighty pounds of hair to a Partisan
hairdresser. which would be worth al
most as many sovereigns.
AS the aforementioned weight repre-
sents the locks of 300 noyices, which
gives each on an average four and Il
half ounces, it Is very obvious that the
demoiselles of Tours cannot rival the
professional hair cultiyators Of thu
haute Vlenne, who can sometimes OBJ
tain &c for their locks.
A recent interview with a natiy.
merchant revealed the fact that ca To-
was an average price for an Englisl
girls head Of hair.
Hair which is worth about shilling
an once when it is but eight inches Ions
increases In value as 1t increases IL
length, until II rises to as much as 30s
per ounce, providing the original ownel
sllyng. For the long hair which as I
rule grows on corpses felches but l2s
an ounce.
AT the international exhibition Of
loo2 there was shown a specimen o
leIblack hair measuring the exiraor
u'hary length of sevenly.four inches
heorge Catlin, one OF the first authori
ues on the North American Indian
Feclrds that chief of The Crow trib
possesses hair ten feet seven inche
long.
IN Melbourne recently. however,
lecture quoted the case Of Il wonial
whose hair had grown eighteen feet
apo was rhabitually used as be-
aunt by its owner on winter nights.
This gifted lady could make GOO
pNlng In London by advertising th
virtues OF one OF the many hair re
ss9Ters. London Mail,