SOLD FOR AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 168, 18 November 1876, Page 2

SOLD FOR AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY.

We find in the Minerva of Montreal the -following clipping from a French paper:.— “ About two rears ago there died in Paris a wealthy Peruvian named Don Miguel de Cerdas. Immediately after the death of Don Miguel, his brother, named Don Augilstino, applied to an embalmer of the Hue St. Ferdinand,M. Carpentier, to have the body embalmed. The price, £1,500, having been. agreed upon’, . M. Carpentier, furnished with, the . necessary. permit, had the remains taicen to his establishment in order to proceed with the cm-

bahning. But it so happened that on the very day that the process was completed Don Angustino received a despatch from his own country which obliged him to leave Paris immediately. The news he had received from homo so wholly engrossed his attention that ho embarked, troubling himself no more about his brother, and saying., to himself that M. Carpentier would, of course, bury the remains, and he could pay the bill on his return. “ Nearly two.years had passed before Don Angustino returned to Paris, and it was only a few weeks since that he presented himself to M. Carpentier, making nil sorts of excuses, asked him for his bill, and requested to be shown the place where the body was interred.M. Carpentier appeared very muck embarrassed, stammered and hesitated,and at last confessed that, despairing of ever seeing Don Altgltstino again, he sold the embalmed body to pay himself for his trouble; * How 1 sold cried. Don Angustino, angry and amazed, ‘ Why, my brother s body had no value for any one but me.’ ‘ I’ll tell you how it was,’ groaned the terrified embalmer; ‘ I bound the body up in bands to make it look Egyptian-like, and Sold it for a mummy, as one of the ministers of Sesostris. Why did you leave me so long without bearing from~^(^?’ “ Don Angustino, repressing his anger as well as he eonld, asked the embalmer to whom he had sold the pretended mummy. ‘ I do not know his name,’ stammered M. Carpentier; ‘he was an Englishman.’ “ That was all that could be elicited from him. A complaint Was lodged by Don Angustino against the embalmer, and when once the affair is decided by the court the Peruvian will go in search of the fraternal mummy.”