So many exaggerated stories about the heat hare been put in circulation during the past few weeks, that some of our readers may be dilatory in crediting a' statement made by a correspondent writing from St. Louis. He says that during therecent hot wave in thai citrr " three Mfcun skeletons in a medical college perspired profusely and called for soda cocktails, while an Egyptian mummy, 4,000 years old; in. the professor's room, begged to have its.wrappingt removed and * a cabbage leaf placed on its head." Our correspondent f*Us to give his -name.-* B.F. Post. '■■• • .
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3006, 3 October 1878, Page 2
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94Untitled Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3006, 3 October 1878, Page 2
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