People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Mummifying a King. [ARTICLE]

Mummifying a King.

It is now six years since Alphonse XII., king of Spain, died. It is generally supposed that he is buried, but he is said nqt to be. Carefully wrapped up in fine linen his body still lies upon a slab close to a stream that flows through the Pudrido, the name of tbs cavern on the side of the mountain upon which th(> Escurial stands. It will be left there until it has all the peculiarities that belong to a mummy. Then it will be placed in the niche prepared for it ih the wonderful jasper vault under the great cupola of the Escurial, where the remains of all the kings of Spain are deposited. Some royal bodies, and particularly that of the father of Queen Isabella, remained for twenty-five yean on that same slab before they were com sidered fit for removal to this grand vault.