CAUGHT BY HIS BEARD.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2044, 11 September 1880, Page 3

CAUGHT BY HIS BEARD.

The American correspondent of the

“Otago Daily Times” writes:—“A most extraordinary accident befel a gentleman here not long since, from which a moral may be drawn. The gentleman in question was possessed of a most magnificent beard, which was the envy of all the young men in San Francisco, In the course of his business, which is the manufacture of ice, it is necessary for him to go down into the basement of his manufactory, where the machinery is situated. One day last week he went down to regulate some portion of the machinery, and, it being dark, he was obliged to grope his way to the gas jot, so that he might light it; but, unfortunately, in passing one of the wheels, which was revolving ropidly, hie long beard was caught, and be was lifted from his feet; but, grasping a beam, he held on until the wheel tore out every spear of hair from his chin. So terrible was the pain and fright that his hair, which was coal black when he went in, turned perfectly white the next day. The moral of this story is directed to those young bankers’ clerks of your city who, as I remember them, were cultivating at great trouble and expense incipient whiskers. They will see by this that it is not always an advantage to have long beards, and it will probably make them more contented with their smooth chins,”