| Show Only a Handful Dust I Special to THE HEHALD Examiner Dispatch MILWAUKEE Sept 12 Herpan Frank is a millionaire resident of Milwaukee of antiquarian an-tiquarian tastes In his house there are Indian relics a bit of the blarney stone mastodonian teeth and other such things but Afr liinnlr tvnntfvl r mummer en nA n 0 went a year ago to Egypt He failed t procure any driedup Pharaohs however and came back to Milwaukee disgusted Through a friend of his who know Jerry Lynch of San Francisco while that gentleman gen-tleman was doing the pyramids Mr Frank successfully negotiated with the American consul at Cairo fqr the shipment to this country of two specimens of bandaged corpses He paid 81 1Q3 for them and 400 duty at the New York customs house They arrived yesterday Jind in the presence pres-ence of the officers J3E the public museum he opened the box Vhich contained the treasure Then Mr Frank began to remove re-move the cloth that covered the face of one of the mummies The gentlemen bent over the box the cloth bandages were unwound At last the fold was taken away and they saw the sernbiance of ahead a-head crumble and decrease in size until unt nothing but a tablespoonful pf impalpabl dust met their gaze The covering to the rest of the bodywas takcUmway and the same transition occurred The other mummy mum-my met with a similar fate The gentlemen gentle-men do not know whether the free United States climate affected the mummies or whether some shrewd mummy manufacturer manufac-turer ia Egypt sold Mr Frank a fake Mr Frank will do his utmost to collect the duty he paid the New York customs officers of-ficers who have as ho says no duty on dust and that is all ho has to show for his 2100 |
