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Show Nut lira I Big Head. C. W. Russell, a prominent business man, wears tho biggest hat in town, if not in the wholo country. He is a large, well proportioned man, and ono would not for a moment imagine ho wore an Si hat. It is n fact, however. There- is only one establishment in tlie country where they have a block largo enough to build a hat for Mr. Russell, and that ! is located at Bethel. Conn. In all prob-i prob-i ability Russell would have to go hatiess if tho manager of the Bethel factory had not mado a block expressly for him. Mr. Ames axlubited this enormous hat to a large number of persons yesterday. It I fitted a man who woroaTi hat like a I circus tent over a balloon. A box had to bo mado specially for it Tho brim Is ! a fraction o'er three inches wide from tho body to tlie rim all around. Chicago j Herald. |