The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-19

cats No human being can possibly worship anything to which he does not consider himself inferior. What must have been the spiritual condition of l Raneses and his cat-worshipping sub l jects? Give an Arab note to deliver the chances are five to one he won't deliver it; ten to one you won't ever find out what has become of 1t, Start a donkey and he will deliver his charge without failure A camel will not all low himself to be loaded beyond his car rying power, and the Arab must stop loading when the camel tips him the proper wink, otherwise he will have his arms or his head bitten off One would suppose that a knowledge of Arabic would be of assistance, but those who have been in the country longest say no. You must cultivate stupidity and resignation. Thank allah for everything that happens in accordance with desire and intent; plan nothing, expect noth- ing; bear all things with equanimity; suffer everything with patience; culti- vate silence and sitting still There's new roW-de-dow about the sphinx. Some years ago the sphinx was partly dug out of it's enclosing and surround ing sands. The temple between it's paws was unearthed and it was pro posed to dig it all out and to build wall about to keep the sand permanent ly away. Nothing was done, however. Little by little the sand has been conn ing back, and it won't be long before the poor old thing is quite as much covered up as before. The sphinx, by the by, in its present condition, looks about as dignified as Pat, after a most successful St. Patricks or as the corner of an old fashioned wood pile. How the poets who have poetized, could have poetized as they did poetize can only be understood on the supposition that they were professional poets ready to poet ize for cash on all subjects and at all times. Whoever started the sphinx didn't finish it, and no subsequent po- tentate thought it worth his while to complete his predecessors conception. The question is, shall it be dug out anew, or shall it be left to itself?
 Before leaving Egypt you must buy a. scaraboeus; Anglice scarab. As gen. uine scarabs are very scarce, and as the country is flooded with bogus scar
 
 imitation that even skillful experts are deceived, your chances of success in an independent scarab hunt are small, Emil Brugsch Bey, director of the Gizeh museum and a brother of the late very celebrated Egyptologist, is the accepted authority in antiquities; but even he may soon be shown to be fallible.
 There Is no law in Egypt against the exportation of antiquities, but the au thorltes of the museum may prevent ex- portation by repurchase.
 Sometime ago a party purchased in Luxor a necklace said to have been found in a royal tomb, and paid f700 for it, on the representation by the dealer that it was worth at least double the amount. Reaching Cairo. and hearing of Brugsch Bey, the party submitted the jewel to his inspection. He forth with proclaimed it bogus. And now the party has sued the dealer for the re- turn of his cash while the dealer has sued Brugsch for defamation of char acter. There are prospects of delight ful times ahead for those interested in Egyptian law and Egyptian justice. What glorious fun it would be for a sharp American practitioner to cross examine the Bey.
 The great Normania of the N. D. Lloyd has dumped it's passengers among them New Havens social star and guidance, whose last years Cairo triunlphs were celebrated in song and verse; So the social season has fairly | commenced. It bids fair to be as fur ious as the fastest may desire. High | time for quiet folks to get away.
 The stupidity of this letter is the di- ! rect effect of the inharmonious con- glomerate presented by this country. | No one thing is uppermost. No one thing controls. The only honest thing | practised seems to be Egyptology. For the preserving student of hieroglyphics one can have the utmost respect, even though sympathy be impossible. The nabob who passes gloriously | up the Nile in his floating palace, dis daining art and history, may also be admired. The chap who bold ly states that he likes Cairo because of | it's immoral atmosphere and because of the comfortable opportunities it pre- sents for fashionable and ashionable vices, may be commended for his hon esty But what is to be said of the hundreds and hundreds of American men and women who are here aimless- y, unless to pick up wickedness inad- unless to hear and see with put blushing things from which at home they would turn in horror?
 The whole body of the state is rotten, rom the precoctous Syibarite heathen who is propped on his throne by Eng ish bayonets, to the nasty Ghazlye who s propped in her doings by the plau- lates of American hands.
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