Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1902 — The Sphinx Needs an Umbrella. [ARTICLE]

The Sphinx Needs an Umbrella.

\ eniee lot's lost her famous campanile, and now Egypt has good cause to tremble for her splmix—-at least so says a distinguished European Egyptologist who examined this ancient monument recently. It is slowly wasting away, he says, and the sole cause is la-cause too much rain has recently descended on it. Each year, lie points out., there are terrible showers of rain in Egypt, which are followed by fierce tempests, and as a result the sphinx, which has stood for Centura is now being slowly, but surel;. do stroyed, the stone of which u is fashioned being no longer able to resist the periodical onslaughts of the weather. As the only efficacious remedy he suggests that an immense urnbn 11a be placed over the monument, as thus the rain could be warded off, and that some method be also devised to protect it against the sand which envelops it during tempest*.