Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-26
The ANTIQUITIES of Mizraim.

Fralk g Carpenter, who ia now In Egypt,
sends en- inIeteaiies letter 10 the New ok
World descriptive u he cutiosities TO be
found in the land of the Pharoahs He
ss,s:
The museum If Boulac has been greatly
incieased in size within few years, and
.n-re is NC pace like it 10 which 10 study
the E,pt Of the past. There is room after
room walled with the collins of these mon
archs OF thousaads OF years ago, and in other
mummy caskets the bodies embslmed are
exposed to view. | looked long time upon
toe face OF King Ramases. who, it Is sup
posed, went to school With Moses The
face, though back. was wonderfully life.
like, and the teeth ehone out as white a5
when he brushed them sf,er his morning
tn IN, something like four thousand years ago.
noted the silky, fuzzy hair or r biz black
ears aud louged for "A lock of it for my col.
lection of relics The dead past became
wonderfully real In looking at another
box in which mum mied princess of about
this time lay with the mummy of her little
baby, who was 20. many days old, ip the
coffio beside her, and when | saw the Jew
elry OF gold bracelets of the same patterns
wbich our bellies now wear in Washington
eud New York, and Of the ear rings which
a quite ss beautiful as those made by TIE
lany, The dry bonae began to move and the
pickled ticeh resumed its tints, and l could
sea that human nature was the same six
thousand years ago as 1t is now, and that
these people of the pest had the loves
sna hates, the troubles and the vani-
ties Of the world of to day. The food shown
10 another case as taken from theee tombs
brought their very s!omachs back to life.
noted the flowers which were put In another
mummy case beside king and l could not
reconcile the beautiful teeth and the fine in.
lellectusl face of King Seti. whose daughter
is supposed to have found Moses in the bul.
rushes, with the fat, bloated fingers, which
show that he bad the gout. There was as
good living in the days Of the Israeli'es In
Egypt as there ia to day, but 1t was then as
now-oply the rich had the fancy cooke and
the poor ate scraps 10 the tomb of III near
y ,uptis saw wall after wall n chambers
vi granite away down under the sands Of
the desert. These walls were covered with
painted pictures of the life of the time when
the tomb was made, thousands of years be.
fore Christ, and among these pictures saw
that pate de iois gras was one of the dain.
ties Of that time The feeding of the geese
UN SiuluUR tutLu WIN IoOO w Cdiui 80 pho
liver is there faithfully pictured, and the
eggs, mummied chickens and other dear de.
parted delicscies which are found 10 the
pyramids and tombs show us that the poo.
pie of the past did not suffer and that they
knew how TO enjoy life quite as we'll as
we do.
II have paid my second visit to the Great
Pyramid during the past week. climbed
to the top. assisted by three Arabs, and
penetrated the gloomy recesses of the inte-
rior and attempted to take photographs OF
the king and queen chambers by Hash lights.
The pyramid covers thirteen acres OF
ground, aud it was at one time higher than
the Washington monument. 1t has in the
past been quarrc from which Cairo has
drawn the stones for much OF its building
aud there is still enough LETT to make more
than eight hundred Washington monuments.
The SphyDx Is now we'll pulled out OF the
| sard and there are iron Cars at it's base rea-
dy TO be used for further excavations. It
| has put on new aspect within the last few
years and it seems bigger, more sombre and
more wonderful than ever. Is face Ia that
OF remarkably good looking negro girl,
and it is said thatits complexion was origin
ally of beautiful pink. All Of this pink
has been nov ground away by the sands of
the desert, which have for more than Blk
thousand years been showeriDg their amor
Gus kisses upon it, and all that is left is
little red paint Just under the left eye. The
head alone is SO big that if you would build
vault the sizs of q parlor fourteen feet
square and run it up to the height of q three
story house it would be just large enough to
coutan it, and if even though you measure
six fee; in your stockings aDd had arms as
long as those of Abraham Lincoln, and stood
on the tip of tbis old lady's ear, you could
hardly touch the crown of her head"
BuckIen's Arnica Salve.