Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — White Hair. [ARTICLE]

White Hair.

“Is it nosriblo for a peraon’snair ts cmn£orm2kiea*i£i«ht. ifuringVnouL sr«l‘°i. t <^i T B w'^S>JiVvS three anchors and two cables. The pilot Who hail charge wda constantly <m Watch, only snatching a few minntsrf i steep here and there, as nwiwtelftf afforded. On the wholes had a very anxious time indeed, and when he eventually left the shio off the Isle of Wight, he certainly looked twenty yearn older. I thought his hair had decidedly turned grayer; this may, however, have been only imagination, and therefore ought rather to be considered as an impression than actual fact. Within the last few months a fresh case of the poafibiiity of the oolor of the hair changing haa come under my notice. An old gentleman, aged eighty-nine, residing in my immediate neighborhood, lately died. For many years his hair has been perfectly white, bat a few days before his death some of his hair became black, giving the appearance of his having dark brown or butek hair. Here it is interesting to note that in his younger days his hair was light After the death of this gentteman the tips of his hair for about an inch assumed the original color, becoming white again. 1 nave heard of another instance where, after death, the hair had turned from white to Wack. Dogs seem to be affected with regard to their hair in like manner aa human beings. I lately read of a case where a black Newfoundland dog became gray in a few weeks, and the writer decursf that the only cauae for this sudden ooa version was grief.