Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-08-01
From the Boston Transcript. ...- :.
Lord BrouSham aud the Mummy.
"a London June 2Ist 1856,

only about 700 years before the Christian
era. Your correspondents acquaintance
with the sable fair one began in this way:
He received an envelope, on opening
which there protruded the fac simile in
blue ink Of an adder with tremendous
fork in its tail, on which it stood bolt
upright, the alarm created by this serpen-
tine appartion rapidly subsiding on
observing the superscrip.ion viz--'Lord
Londesborongh at home Monday 10Th
June 1850. lG4 Picadilly A Mummy
from Thebes to be unrolled at half past
two" ....s.-.. ....'...
Punctual to the minute, your correspon-
dent presented himself before the Presi-
dent of the Antiquarian Society, who has
recently inherited the prodigious fortune
Of his maternal uncle old Denison the
millionaire miser, and is creditably ex-
pending some portion Of that enormous ac-
QUESTION in the indulgence Of literary and
scientific tastes surrounding himself with
intellectual men Of all ranks. Some fifty
of those were present on this occasion,
with about twenty ladies'. After brief
inspection Of some of the rare paintings
with which his lordship has filled the suit
ofrooms on the first floor, the company
descended to the dining nall; your cores
pcndent instinctiyely ensconcing himself
behind bookcase and soon lifting his
eyes encountered those of Lord Brougham
who now robbed the dead as he has ever
done the living Tor he fairly carried off
from the mummy all the interest. For
awhile he conducted himself remarkably
well folded his arms, pulled down his
nose, and affected TO be inten,ly absorbed
in the data of body picking among Egyp-
,ians, as explained by Mr. Birch of the
British Museum who quoted Herodo,us
by the yard. .
Presently the door slowly and cautious
ly opens. In peeps the semi-bald intel
lectual head O! mild but quizzical look
ing man of some four and forty, with
spectacles on nose; dressed in nondescript
black, half modern dandy half medieval
beau with an odd mixture of fbashfuness
and self-possession in a counienance
which once observed is never forgotten.
Wit is in every sparkle of that quick and
quiet grey eye; thought has set up its
dwelling place in that broad brow and the
hue of delicacy and sensitiveness suffuses
all. He casts glance in through the
room, then, as if abashed by the frigid
. elegance ofthe scene, wi,hdraws moment
but plucking up courage and emboldened
by friendly beck from little round man
in the rear about four feet high-the
qneerest Liliputian quidnunc eye ever be.
held-he sidles in at the door way, creeps
round to his small friend and the pair are
; al once immersed in a whisper much more
redolent Of potatoes and potheen than Of
the Pharaoes. They are brace OF Pat,
sure enough and more comical pair this
wide London does not contain. The first
is Frank Mahoney renowned Father Prou
wisest o: wags, and worthy as he is wise
The second is his fellow -chum, <of the
beautiful city called Cork"-Croiton Gro
ker which is no bigger than tumbler oi
) whiskey punch, which he very much re.
, sembles physically and asthetically.
But our business is with a still greater
,, comicality than either. Vandenhoff, the
tragedian, has such horror Of cats, tha,
he can tell if there's one in the house the
moment he puts his nose inside the door
ard Brougham has such aterror Of a clev.
er newspaper critic that he can smell one {
mile off. Restless and pert'ubed became
noble Harry, the instant Father Prout
came in. though at the opposite end ofthe
room. The Padre is the satirist who, il
the Globe, thrashed into Brougham some
> notions Of decency, in "delicate dishes,
apropos to the Lincoln divorce case; an(
+, though there has been a sort of patch.uI
of that affair, the Dowager Chancellor wa
8 in most uncomfortable fidget at the
: proximity Of his humorous ffagellator.-
Prout, ,all unconscious of the evil eye upol
him was examining an enormous Cardi
NAILS ring handed him for such purpose b.
> Croker, who is a connoi>eur in torques
e or whatever be the orthodox antiquarian
: name for these nicknackers. Jordan, ed
itor of the Literary Gazette; the Bishol
!. of Oxford ; Roberts, the eastern painter
y Sir B. Brodie, and Guthrie. the surgeons
: Hallan the historian Bonomi, the orienta
= traveller; Professors Wheatstone, Bell
y Owen and others, gathered around III
table and, with saw, and knife, and chise
ana sclsSors,oeSan uilaoilig tle P'chy Hi
= papyros toilette of the lady in black. Sh
!, turned out to be Priestess of Isis, and o
: high distinction, to Judge by the rarity an
= cost of her ornaments and Inscriptions
= though it appears she was not honestl
dealt with by the undertakers, who defil
!, ed he. with too much pitch; which in
II stead Of enabling her to stick well tose'h
= er, had the contrary effect, for she brok
in pieces when i: came TO the final pinch
y But this unrolling was very tedioi
4 affair relieved only by Broug hams an'ic
p" who as clouds Of dust, and most anclen
:. and by no means savory odor evolve
:, from the bi,umnous beauty, ran abor
>. - with huge Eau de Cologne bottle III on
hand, brandishing saturated cloth III IN
other pouring drops on the ladies' pocke
handkercheGs, and keeping every body h
s came near in a paroxysm OF merimeh'
,t with the affected simplicity of his question
.. and the ex,ravagant raciness of his an
,o swers. Soon however, still more ludl
q, crous materials offerd.
" DR. Granville exhibited at an other tab!
70 splended specimen Of a female mumm.
r. that had been unrollcd nearly thirty year