SOLD FOE AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY.

Thames Advertiser, Volume IX, Issue 2455, 27 October 1876, Page 3

SOLD FOE AN EGYPTIAN MUMMY.

We find in the Mhtrvt of Montreal, the following clipping from a French paper:— " About two years ago there' died in Paris a wealthy Peruvian named Don Miguel de Oerdas. Immediately, after the death of Don Miguel, his brother, named Don Augustino, applied to an em« balmer of the Euo St Ferdinard, M. Carpentier, to have the body embalmed. The price, §1,500, haying been agreed upon, M. Carpentier, furnished with tho necessary permit, had the remains: taken to his establishment in order to proceed with tho embalming. But it so happened that on the vory day that tho procoss was completed, Don Augustino received a'dispatch from his own country which obliged him to leave Paris immediately.. The news lie 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, tho remains, and he could pay the bill on his return. Nearly two yoars had passed beforo Don Augustino returned to Paris, and it was only a few weeks since that he presented himself to M. Carpentier, imlring all sorts of exouses, asked him for his bill, and requested to be shown the placo where his body was interred, M. Carpentier appeared very much embarrassed, stammored and hesitated, and at last con. fessed that, despairing of ever seeing Don Augustino again, he sold the embalmed body to pay himself for his trouble.' Howl sold P' cried Don Augustino, angry and amazed. ' Why, my brother's body has no value for any one but, me.' : 'I'll te}l you how it was,' groaned tho terrified embalmer; ' I bound tho body up in bands to make it look Egyptian-like, and Bold it for a mummy, as one of the ministers of Sesotris. Why did you leave me so long without hearing from you?' Don Augustino, repressing his anger as well as he could, asked the embalmor to whom he had sold tho 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 Augustino against theombalmor, and when once the affair is decided by the court* the Peruvian will go in search of the fraternal mummy.