Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-28

pleasant as that which utters orations
against the doctrine of birthstone damna-
tion, and his attire is that of his illustrious
great great-of his one hundred and
eightieth great grandson, when having read
a chapter in his Shakesperian Bible and
sung one of Burns poems for a hymn, he
disrobes his portly form, and clad in his in
nocenee and nightie he gets ready for bed.
The statue was found in the tombs at Sa-
kahra or old Memphis near Cairo, and it
stands in company with some odd hundreds
of mummies in the greatest museum of
Egyptian antiquities.
The museum of Boulac has been greatly
increased in size within a few years, and
there is no place like it in which to study
the Egypt of the past There is room after
room walled with the coffins of these mon
archs of thousands OF years ago, and in other
mummy casketS the bodies embalmed are
exposed to view. 1 looked a long time
to-day upon the face of King Ramases, who,
it is supposed, went to school with Moses.
The face, though black, was wonderfully
life-like, and the teeth shcDe out as white
as when he brushed them after his morning
tub, something like 1900 years ago. 1
noted the silky, fuzzy hair over his
black ears and longed for lock of it for
my collection of relics. The dead past
became wonderfully real; in looking at
of about this time lay with the mummy of
her little baby, which was not many days
old, in the coffin beside her, and when saw
the iewelry of gold bracelets of the same pat,
terms which our bellies now wear in Wash
ington and New York, and OF the earrings
which are quite as beautiful as those made
by Tiffany, the dry bones began to move and
the picked flesh resumed its tints, and 1
could see that human nature was the same
- Al
pie of the past had the loves and hates, the
troubles and the vanities, OF the world of
to-day.
A PHARAOH WITH THE GoUT.
The food shown in another case as taken
from these tombs brought their very stom-
achs back to life, and 1 wondered what
Ramases took for the collie and whether
Queen Akhotupu, who lived before Moses
and who now lives here, had the Mysteries.
] noted the flowers which were put in an
other mummy case beside a king, and
could not reconcile the beautiful teeth and
the fine Intellectual face of King Seti,
whose daughter is supposed to have found
Moses in the bullrushes with the fat, bloated
fingers which show that he had the gout.
There was as good living in the days of the
1sraelites in Egypt as there is to-day, but
1t was then as now, only the rich had
the fancy cooks and the poor ate the scraps.
In the tomb of I'll, near Memphis, saw
wall after wall IN chambers of 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 before Christ, and
among these pictures saw this pate de fois
gras was one of the dainties of that time.
The feeding of the geese by the stuffing of
them with iood to enlarge the liver is there
faithfully pictured, and the eggs, mummied
chickens and other dear departed delicacies
which are found in the pyramids and tombs,
show us that the people of the past have not
suffered and that they knew how to enjoy
life quite as well as we do.
have paid my second visit to the pyra-
mids during the past week, and I find these
great piles of stone unchanged. The same
gang of Bedouins surround them to-day as
preyed upon me when paid my first call on
the Sphinx. eight years ago, and the eternal
cry of backsheeshl backsheeshi backsheesh!
still sounds out upon the air OF the desert in
which they are located. / climbed to the
top, assisted by three Arabs, and pene-
trated the gloomy recesses Of the interior
and attempted to take photographs of the
king and queen chambers BY flash lights.