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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 722, 11 April 1922, Page 5

The bully beef 97 years old, recovered from the stores left at the Arctic by the Parry expedition in 1825, which has just been sampled at Hull and declared “sweet good,” is says the Daily Chronicle, fresh meat compared with the steaks on which some heroic Russian scientists feasted a few years ago. They were cut from the body of a prehistoric mammoth discovered in the great Arctic refrigerator which must have ended his career, on the most conservative estimate, 100,000 years before it provided the banquet. Another remarkable menu was served up at a dinner given by a Belgian antiquary about the same time, which contained apples recovered from the mins of Pompeii, wine found in a vault in the city of Corinth, and bread made from wheat which had been preserved in an Egyptian pyramid for over , 2000 years. That the course of justice is show but sure must be the reflection of a certain Italian Government clerk. Twenty years ago he was dismissed from the Italian postal service,, accused of stealing- a postal order that had disappeared in the office at Aquila. Recently a clerk was tidying up the safe there and found a yellowed postal note , for a considerable sum. An old man, who had been in the service for more than a quarter of a century, remembered that a clerk had been charged with stea’ang an order and dismissed. An investigation followed, and the innocent victim of the blunder was finally discovered. The Government awarded him 20,000 dol. —the total amount of salary he would have received had he not been discharged.