Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1881 — The Oldest of the Mummies. [ARTICLE]

The Oldest of the Mummies.

Now York Tribune. Among the royal mummies the oldest Is Riug Raskenen, one of the latest mouarehs of the seventeenth dynasty. According to Marlette, this dynasty ended B. C. 1803. As Ilaskeuen was not the last of this line, we shall not be far out of the way iu saying that his mummy, with its flue linen shroud and its three carved cases fitting together like a n< st of boxes, is about 3,700 years old. Four hundred years before the Israelites crossed the Red sea this monaich ruled in Thebes. Nearly all that we know of the doings of humanity upon the earth has taken place since he was oiled and perfumed and laid away iu his painted boxes. Yet we can touch his hands to day and look into iiis face and read his history wtitlen.aH over his coffin. The Methodist Christian Advocate contains the following: "A story is told iu Michigan about one of the members of the Detroit conference which is too good to keep. He was spending a day in the country, and was invited to dine. They had chicken for dinner, of course, much to the grief of a little boy in the household, who had lost his favorite hen to provide the feas’. Alter dinner prayer was proposed, and while the preacher was praying a poor little lonesome chicken came running under the house, crying for its absent mother. The little boy could restrain himself no longer. He put his mouth down to a bole in the floor and shouted; "Peepy, peepy, I didn’t kill your mother. They killed her for that big preacher’s dinner.” The "Amen” was said very suddenly.