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Show HALT IjAllH All-AIM IK. Tho news come all the way from airo of an important ti ml of royal mummies in the neighborhood ofThehe which must delight thu heart of Kgypt-o'ogists. Kgypt-o'ogists. These mummies are frontline, no doubt, and having the advantage of extreme old ngo wo fear our native article cannot compete with them in the open market. On the other hand, however, our homo ass ortment is not stured away iu air tight cases underground, under-ground, hut walks about in broad daylight day-light clothed iu modern attire. Last autumn we ma le an accession of a learned professor who came to Salt Lake City lired with tho laudable ambition ambi-tion lo establish here the largest museum mu-seum on earth. We fear he is missing thu ureat opportunity of his life in failing fail-ing to (stock his institution with tho precious spocimens of dried bodies still lo be found in these parts, for in a few years they will bo blown away by tho action of the new elements that tend to decompose them. When it was proposed pro-posed to soil the old Fort block to a corporation cor-poration for uso of a railroad depot those mummies held a conclave and re solved to defeat thu proposition because it was an infraction upon the spirit of yeoldon time under the benign rule of the Komksks and other ancient mun-urchs. mun-urchs. And behold: The railroad line into tho mining holds of the Deep creek country is held iu abeyance on account (if the motion. Then came the proposition proposi-tion to erect a joint public building in Washington square and transform the cow pasture into a blooming park, when tho mummies again protested, for they dote on antiquities and will not brook innovations." in-novations." The mummies do not believe in public improvements. Why should they? The tribes of the Tiiotiiinks, Skti and Aiikmiotki'S walked in the mud and never onco did they cry out for pavements and sidewalks, although they were not supplied iu those days with arctic rubbers, but wore sandals, if, indeed, they did not walk barefoot before their kind. Pshaw! what is the uso of quarrying stone and squaring it into monumental blocks for the wayfarer way-farer to ga.e upon in astonishment and delight, when clay ami straw, albeit adobe, might do as well. To be sure, (ho Egyptian mummies when they still moved in the flesh built pyramids and obelisks for posterity to marvel at, but they discouraged all other enterprise of immediate im-mediate utility. Our native mummies do more than that. They actually collect col-lect a fund, swelled up to tho imposing impos-ing size of $1-11). 2j, to stop the wheels of progress and paralyze every effort at industry. These Egyptian mummies may bo an Interesting lot, but our homo collection is not a whit inferior in many points, and, what is better still, wo would be willing to dispose of them at a heavy discount. They are valuablo chiefly as remnants of a departed period and wo aro not particularly "stuck" on departed depart-ed periods. This is the era of progress in Salt Lake. |