Show weighing a H hair air to number the hairs of your head ie fig not a very difficult task said the refiner of the assay office to a friend recently A deiy close tion can be made by weighing the en ell tire amount of hair on a man mans s head and then weighing a single hair the weight of the former divided by that of the latter will of course give the desired number if you will pluck 1 out a hair from dour our beard I 1 can show ou oil A long and straggling one was accordingly detached the refiner put ting it on a scale which was in a glass case and graduated with extreme accuracy with little weights of aluminum be piled up one arm un til an equipoise was reached the tile hair weighed three kilo grammes if you reduce this to figures said the speaker it would require 8 hairs to weigh one ounce and suppose you have six ounces you have 48 hairs |