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Evening Star, Issue 3920, 16 September 1875, Page 3

During the exhibition of ( .'aptam Boy ton'» life-preserving dress a'. Bristol, it waa statyii that the Admiralty have ordered a hundred of his dresses for coastguard service at a cost of Ll2 each.

Four hundred thousand pounds for a !-»«,.( of hair is a startler. Our readers do not believe it ? Well, then, they must have a suspicion of the correctness of what appears in the newspapers. If we are to believe a paragraph which has gone the rounds of the press, Madame flilsson possesses a head of hair which she might readily turn into < -400,000. According to a medical journal (s;iys the ' Universe') there are from 160.000 to 200,000 hairs iu a lady s head. Madame Milsson possesses a splendid head of hair, and probably has the full complement of individual hairs. We are informed by the name journal that the gifted Nilsson sold a hair from her head for L2, and that "in a few moments the Swedish songstress was surrounded by admirers anxious to buy a hair at the same rate." The sale took plac j at a fancy fair in New York, and, we are glad to tind, in the cause of charity. Just imagine the number of charitable institutions that might be established if the 200.000 hair were sold at the .same rate.