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Show Five Feet of Beard. A member of the Humboldt county pioneers has a beard five feet in length. It has been growing ten years, and had it not been for a spell of sickness of the possessor it would hare been several inches longer. Already it is almost to the ground, and as the owner walked the streets of Crescent city a crowd surrounded him at every turn, and bored him with the usual interro gatives incident to buc'u a strange sight. The pioneer who boasts this beard signifies bis intention of not exposing it to the public gaze only upon each anniversary of the society of wnich he is a respected member. Humboldt, Cal., Times. |