Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1891 — The Mummy Cats of Beni Hassan. [ARTICLE]

The Mummy Cats of Beni Hassan.

A curious consignment of goods was received at London a few weeks ago,' consisting of no less than 180,000 mummy cats from Egypt. These cats have lain in their sacred burial place at Beni Hassan for 3,000 years or more, and having fulfilled for so many years the destiny intended for them, have at last, under the impulse of nineteenth century progress, been sacrificed upon the altar of “utility”—that modern all-devouring ogre. These mummies are now about to fill their final function of fertilizing English farm land, and at the future resurrection poor pussy will have a sorry time trying to gather together her'scattered bones.