Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-02-07
What Mr.. PimpletOn Did Not See at
the Centennial Exhibition.

that event, Mr.. Pimpleton has confin-
ed his table talk almost exclusively to
the wonderful things which he saw at
Philadelphia. Mr.. Pimpleton spent a
week there, and it has hitherto been
his constant boast that in SIX days he
saw all there was worth seeing.
"The world was made in six days,
he has been wont to observe, Sand it
stands to reason that a man ought to
be able to see all there is IN it in the
same length of time. All the world
wasn't at the Centennial, but what
there was of it | saw
This weighty reasoning has served
to silence Mr.. Pimpletons fellow
boarders, who have labored under a
disadvantage in the argument, be-
cause none of them visited the Phia-
delphia show. These unfortunate per-
sons have been obliged to listen to Mr..
Pimplcton's ottrepeated descriptions
of the Main Building. of Machinery
Hall, of the Art Gallery and Of Agri.
cultural Hall, until they have grown
even more tired of the word "Centen-
NAL" than of Ms. Fitzsimmon's hash.
Indeed, while the monotony OF the lat
ter is occasionally broken by button,
a shingle nail, or an elongated hair,
Mr.. Pimpleton's centennial discourse
runs on continuously, without the
ripple Of a change.
Ii SO happened on Thursday last
that one of Mrs. Fitzsimmon's partic
ular friends was invited to eat his
Thanksgiving dinner at the boarding
house. This friend was a very large
man, with a twlnkling blue eye, face
as rosy as Zach Chandler nose, and
a remarkably bald head He was as
signed a seat at the table directly op-
posite Mr.. Pimpleton, and he had nc
sooner received his one oyster in a
dish of broth than Mr., P;mpleton &C
costed him, as he accosts all strangers,
with the words:
did you 60 to the Centennial g.
'Oh, yes spent two months there,
answered the friend of Mrs. Fitzsim-
mons. ''Great show, that ; great
show y
"It was great show, indeed" re-
joined Mr.. Pimpletou. 81 went to it
myself
"D'd you, now p exclaimed the
stranger. 'I'm delighted to hear it,
sir; delighted TO meet with man
who went to the Centennial. I sup
pose you saw pretty much everything
of interest o.
"Evcrything, sir-everything," an.
swered Mr.. Pimpleton, complacently.
81 suppose that you went into the
Egyptian department q
Eyes, l did," answered Mr.. PIN.
pleton. II bestowed particular at
tention upon the Egyptian display"
Every interesting, wasn't it ? What
did YOU think of the animated num-
my ?"
"The animated mummy! / really
don't remember" :"
"Well, now, it was unfortunate that
you should have missed seeing that
Nothing in the whole Exhibition
pleased me more. used to sit for
hours at time talking with him. You
see that | have spent years in the
7 study ofthe ancient Egyptian language
: and | could, therefore, understand
!, every word the animated mummy
; said. He died, it seems, in the year
q 3,O07 B. 9. At that time he was g.
i. years old. You will thus perceiv,
that his present age is 4,946 years
I Such Il venerable man could not fai
to excite feelings of respect, and wa.
;. particularly interested IN the account
J. of his death. According to his owl
statement, he was person OF consid
cradle political distinction in Egypt
Contemporaneous with him there wa
n one John A. Dix, who was an aspiran
;. for the office Of Superintendent of th
!. Pyramids, but who did not receiv,
i the appointment. My friend, th'
II mummy, was accidentally killed b,
d this Dix, while the latter was shooting
suipe. The arrow intended for thu
IS bird pierced my friends heart, and HI
,. was thereupon embalmed. He still
l. preserves the head of the arrow.
h really wish that you could have seel
" that animated mummy"
81 really wish that l could" rejoiu
ed Mr.. Pimpleton, family.
= "You certainly noticed that won
dertul piece Of sculpture in the Ar
b Gallery" continued the stranger, help