Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — That Boy's Hair. [ARTICLE]

That Boy's Hair.

A Michigan doctor has written a book upon the human hair, in which he presents these views: Hairs do not, as a rule, penetrate the scalp perpend icularly, but at an angle. When the angle of the different hairs are the same, it is possible to give it the easy sweeps and curves which we generally see it take, but if they are by some freak of nature misplaced, we have the rebellious “frizzle-tops” that are not sue ceptible of the influence of the brush and comb. Many a poor mother has half worried her life out trying to train her Johnny’s rebellious locks into better ways, believing it was Johnny’s perverseness of manners that induced such dilapidated looking head-gear, it was really none of Johnny’s fault at all, but simply a freak of nature in misplacing the radiating centers of his “hirsute covering.” Sometimes fowls suffer from a contrarywise placing the feathers—they run the wrong way. The author’s father had a hen whose legfeathers ran up toward the body, those on the neck and body toward the head. This gave her a perpetual “out of-sorts” look, and she could never fly. The erection ot the hair of animals during anger or of human beings in fright is caused by a change in the skin and the angle at which the hair enters the head or body.

The directors of the Wabash railroad company deny that then is any foundation for the rumor that the Great Western road had been leased by the former company. The matter has been informally discussed by the managers of the Wabash, but they have no expectation that it will be effected for the present, at least, and Mr. Joy, who visited Europe to look into this matter, has telegraphed that the lease was impracticable. pyro*.that had strayed and been Qr * lton < of Port Jarvia, proved to be a fluent talker. When the r^ D $ kc £L to ’? ck ** cradl «. cried, “Mother, Bally don’t rock the craAfter religious services were held ln the house they were frequently interrupted by Poll calling upon some onTbv name to close the nSedng wKh and it was done. * P”**’ hM lo,t her voice, hut her husband Is very sick in Paris.