An eccentric young man who resides at a palatial boarding-house in Cleveland, has invented a method of amusing himself by keeping a hair album. Every hair he finds in the victuals is placed in the album and the date of its discovery, and the incidents attending the discovery, with the name of the dish it was found in, are entered opposite the hair, togetherwith a supposition as to whom it belonged, and whether it was false or real, and other particulars. Ho filled forty-five pages of the album in two brief weeks, just improving the sparo moments that so many devote to idle*
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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1032, 24 December 1872, Page 2
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103Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1032, 24 December 1872, Page 2
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