Ropes Made Of Human Hair

Human hair is a very useful article tí produce in China, ior, besides the inantity sent to Europe to adorn 1&Sies' heads, the coarser kind is collecUsd from the barbers' shops for manu Ing the rice fields. A rope of human liair, several inches in diameter and wveral thousand feet in length, was made for the Mikado of Japan, but having been discarded in favor of a rope of steel, this massive lock of hair, or collection of locks, has passed into the hands of the authorities of the British museum. It is a huge coil, several feet in height, and weighs . abtmt Vwo tons.