Show Shawl of Persian Cats hair The Duchess of Northumberland is the possessor of a shawl which was presented by King Charles X of France and which cost half a million of francs It is manufactured manu-factured from the fur of a species of Persian Per-sian cat The hair of this cats fur is so extremely fine and elastic that a single hair is scarcely perceptible to the naked eye The spinning and weaving of this material and the production of a single shawl like the one referred to requires a few thousand of cat skins and the labor of several years The Duchess of North umberlands shawl measures 8 yards square but is so fine and elastic that it can if necessary be compressed into a large coffee cup |