Show 0 Egypt Egyptian an Art Ad Object Now in iii London Has Had Unique History By Dy PIERRE ERRE ERREAN R E VAN AN N London Egypt pt Righteousness exists 1 Notice This monument came from arid and br hero Egypt was brought some years bick back It is tho the property of ot the he Egyptians Long ng live the nation nalon nation na- na na- na tion lon This was tho Inscription that r Londoners found attached to Cleopatra's Gleo- Gleo Cleo Cico- patras patra's Needle one morning re- re centy The he Ironic point Is that tile the Egypt t Ian nationalist who wrote those lines Ines s apparently d doesn't e t inow his own country's history The English want didn't 1 w nt tho oNe Needle dlo And nd moreover moreover more more- over ver Its It's a a miracle It ever eer got cOt to Condon Mohammed med Alt All v very ry kindly offered It It- to both George Georgi IV and anti William 1 IV IVand and both said No Nott tt titanic hank i l y you u. u The monument of t carved granite weighing tons was va in those days more moro than a Joke About 1801 Sir Ralph Abercromby took a a. r fancy cy to Jt and suggested It should bo be conveyed to England England Eng Enc land nd In c commemoration of ot hI his victory vie vic to tory toj n near ar Alexandria w where ero it had bad stood for tor a couple of thousand of-thousand years He and his Ide friends subscribed friends subscribed some Bome th thousands of at pounds ward toward the Job but it w was s not until 1877 that Its Us transport was beg begun n Before it was was launched It crashed Into a a. tomb Tugs took It to s sea sa a and It struck a arock a rock and sank It was s' s and repaired and t towed away away again but was cut adrift In a a. storm In Theay the Bay ay of at Biscay y For two months It tossed about the tho ocean until it was discovered dIsco by a. a British ship and rul taken to Spain It arrived d in Eng Bag land lind In September 1878 0 |