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The Electrified Wig

While a person is on the electrical stool, if he be charged with much electricity, "Each hair will stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." A wooden head--not your own, but a real wooden head--with a wig of streaming hair, and a handsome face to correspond, may be made in the following form, with a wire in the neck to support it by, and fixed in the conductor of an electrical machine. When this is put in motion the hair will rise up, as in the figure, in a manner to astonish even the "big-wigs."