Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1881 — Ruined by a Hair. [ARTICLE]

Ruined by a Hair.

Hannibal Hamlin failed of an election the first time he was a candidate for United States Senator in consequence of a practical joke he once played. Some years before he was a candidate he was Speaker of the Maine Assembly. In that body was a gentleman of great fastidiousness as to dress and personal appearance. His hair was growing thin on top, but he labored to conceal this by carefully plastering it down with bandolines and cosmetics. One day Speaker Hamlin called him to the desk and said, in what he intended to be a very funny way: “Blank, old fellow, I just wanted to tell you that you’ve got one of your hairs crossed above the other on top. ” The man looked dazed for an instant, and then saying: “You insult me, sir; you insult me!” retired iu high dudgeon. When Hamlin was a candidate for Senator this man was a member of the State Senate. Hamlin’s friends numbered twelve, and those opposed to him thirteen, counting this man, who, though he belonged to the same party as Hamlin, steadily refused to vote for him, and the other man was elected.— Anecdotes of Hannibal Hamlin.

About 4,000 persons are employed in the United States in the manufacture of matches.

[From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.] Edgar T. Page. Esq., druggist, writes us from Chicopee Falls, that Mr. Albert Guenther, under Wild’s Hotel, has used that remarkable remedy, St. Jacobs Oil, lor a severe case of rheumatism and it cured him as if by magic. He also used it with great success among his horses, in cases of sprains, sores, etc., and it cured every time.