Killed by a wig

From Kiel in Holstein, we learn, that M. Stambke, counsellor of state to the hereditary prince of Russia and duke of Holstein, died lately therein an advanced age. The late duke of Holstein owed his life to this gentleman; for being at Petersburg, and having ordered a new state wig to be made, when the peruke-maker brought it home he seemed to insist with more than ordinary earnestness that the duke should be shaved, that the wig might fit the better; Mr. Stambke being accidentally there, suspected from the solicitude of the peruke-maker that there was some foul play intended, and advised the duke to compel the peruke maker to have his own head shaved; which being done, and the wig put upon his head, he expired within twelve minutes.