Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-07-18

GUS. Lie laSJ toilet
OF some royal ladies
7 of the Twenty first
Dynasty was, for instance, most elabor-
ate, the wrinkles caused by the process
of naturalization being filed up with
some kind of enamel, the skin colored
with ochre, the cheeks and lips rouged,
and false eyes introduced under the
shriveled and half-open lids, thus giving
horribly lifelike appearance to the
faces. Others, though now quite bare
of ornaments, had evidently been buried
in all their jewels, like Queen Aah -hotep;
necklaces, diadems, and bracelets having
left their impress on the withered skin.
Many have been mllmmified in comfort
ed attitudes, us if they had died in CON
WILSON'S, but the ghastliest interest Of
all attaches to the remains of an anony-
nous Prince, who appears to have been
embalmed alive, and upon whose mum
my reports are furnished by DIR. Fou-
quet and M. Mathey. The brain, heart,
stomach, etc, of this unfortunate man
are intact, as in life. The body was
found tightly bound in three places,
namely, round the shoulders, round the
wrists and loins, and round the feet,
these lgatures being drawn with such
force as to leave deep burrows in the
flesh. This done, he appears to have
been covered with thick coat of btu
men, lime, and pounded resin, and TO
have been enwound from head to foot
with bandages soaked in some glutinous
preparation which caused them to adj
here with such tenacity that they had
to be sawed of. The agonized express
sion of the face, the open mouth, the
swollen and knotted muscles, bear wit
ness TO his desperate struggles and to
the horrors of his last agony. His age
was about twenty three, and in his ears
were small gold earrings. That he was
a parsonage of high rank and the victim
of some unspeakabe tragedy admits of
no doubt; but to his name and parent
age and to the circumstances of his fate
no clue remains.
THREE stories were told us the other
day, showing the power of mans will.
One was OF a young officer in the Eng
ish Army, who was peculiarly stubborn
and irascible. He had been confined to
his bed after severe attack of the heart,
and was unable to move. His physician
asked one of his fellow-ofiicers TO warn
him that he would never get out of bed
again, that he might arrange his affairs
before death When the sick man was
told what the doctor had said, he arose
in bed excitedly and said: 81 will never
get up again, ell l will walk to the
doctor myself and show him. He
jumped to the floor, walked across the
room and fell dead. The other was
about sheriff out West, who, when ar
resting q man. was stabbed through the
heart He seized the man by the
shoulders, after the blade had struck
him, pressed him to the ground, drew
his revolver, and deliberately thrusting
it down the struggling prisoners throat,
pulled the trigger at the instant he him
self died. The third story was regatd
ing another officer who was hunting
down a thief The man thought he had
given his pursuer the slip, but, Just as
lie entered one door of railroad car,
the officer appeared in the other. The
thief instantly fired, the bullet penetra-
ting his pursuer's brain. The officer,
however, returned the shot, bringing
his man to the ground. He then dragged
himself along the side of the car, firing
as he crawled, until his revolver was
empty. He was dead when he was
picked up, second after he ceased to
shoot.
LONGEVITY extraordinary can certain
" be claimed for the inhabitants cf
Chill, if the CHILEAN census of 1885 is to
be believed. From the statistics there
presented it would appear that nearly
300 persons, out of a total OF 2,2OO, OOO,
are upward Of a hundred years old.
This proportion is perhaps not too great,
but the astonishing ages recorded
strain on the strongest creduhty. One
man cody returned his age as 100, and
this would make it very probable that
he is. as the editor of the census re-
marks. the oldest man in the world;
Next after him comes q women aged
1873: two women and one man report
themselves as 1856; 1872. 100 and III
each have a representative, while there
are seven 125 years old. Below thae
age the numbers mount rapidly, snow,
ing twenty-eight persons OF the age Oh
100, twenty-seven aged 10, ana no less
than ninety-one aged ITO. OF course
this is all deliciously absurd. The re-
turns carry their own discrediting on
their face. with their marked preference
for the decades and half decades-twen- 4
weight. for example, set down at ~, |
while but two are given as lis, ana only /
one to III; ninety-one put at llO, willie /
but eleven reach 100.
A MARRIAGE has Just occurred at Fort |
Jeryis. n. Y. under romantic eilcunl-
stances of parties long past tile script9r-
ally allotted 7O-year limit of human ne.
Joseph Conkling, the groom, is IN MS
s4th year, while the bride, Mrs. M ARIA
Edwards. is in her 74th year. Inc
GROOM. a fine-looking and active senior,
With SfHI a profusion Of iron gray hair, has
long resided in Binghamton, ana MI, =
possessed of an ample fortune. Inc
bride who is also well preserved ana
sprightlv for her years, has ior some
Fine resided at Port Jervis. Joseph
and Maria Tuttle we're neigh
80, oor.A and lovers. living with their par