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Show Mummies from Mexican Ruins, "Mummified remains of bolngs who existed hundreds of yenrs ago have been dug up during tho work of ox-cavating ox-cavating that has been going on in tho old catacombs of Guanajuato, Mexico," said Dr. S. Burg of Baltlmoro.' "Tho people whoso bodies wore discovered must havo lived long boforo tho settlement set-tlement of tho republic, and tho finds havo occasioned much Intorost among scientific men. Some of the bodies were decked" with bead! and ivory" trinkets that wore In voguo boforo the coming gf tho Spaniards, so that those peoplo must havo lived in that part of tho country centuries ago. Tha mummies worq discovered under an old cemetery whilo tho excavations wore being made by somo prospeoting miners." |