WAIFS AND STRAYS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 99, 20 March 1875, Page 9

WAIFS AND STRAYS.

A Hair Repairer. — An establishment for the "repair" of the human hair has lately been started by a hair-dresser in Rampartstreet, New Louisiana. The proprietor does not boast that he can restore hair which has gone, but he simply offers to plant a new crop. Hair, he says, being st vegetable, can be planted anywhere, and if the soil be fruitful, will grow luxuriantly. The operation, however, of grafting hair is rather painful. It is necessary to sew the new hair into the head with needles. The most astonishing results are, it is stated, produced by this system of hair-planting. Any coloured hair may be grafted on anybody's head. Brunettes may have red, blondes, black hair ; old persons black, and young, grey hair, or a person may, if he likes, have his head " terraced," that is, laid out in patches of various coloured hair — red, white, black, or brown, and in almost any sort of pattern or design. This style has been adopted rather largely in New Orleans, and seldom fails to produce a profound sensation. To those who cannot afford human hair, the professor supplies, at a reduced rate, horsehair, which is foiuid quite as useful as a covering, and able to stand an immense amount of wear and tear, with the additional advantage that it never requires combing or brushing. Many of the coloured citizens of New Orleans will, it is confidently anticipated, take advantage of the hair-grafting art into that city to get rid of the wool that disfigures their heads and replace it by more becoming locks, thus fitting themselves for the duties of American citizens.— ' Pall Mall Gazette.' Fair Plat. — An Irishman, who was very near sighted, about to fight a duel, insisted that he should stand six paces nearer his antagonist than the latter did to him, and that they were both to fire at the same time. Thh Sea MotrsE. — The sea mouse is one of the prettiest creatures that live under the water. It sparkles like a diamond, and is raidiant with all the colors of the rainbow, although it lives in the bottom of the ocean. It should not have been called a mouse, for it in larger than a big Tat. It is covered with scales that move up and down as it breathes, and glitters like gold shining through a floeky down, from which fine silky bristles wave that constantly change from one brilliant tint to another, bo that, as Cuvier, the great naturalist, Bays, the plumage of the humming -bird is not more beautiful.- Sea mice are sometimes thrown up on the beach -by storms.