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Show FLEA EMBALMED IN HONEY Little Insect Pest Found Which Met Its Fate in Egypt Many Thousands Thou-sands of Years Ago. It Is believed that the earliest food store laid aside for his wants by man, and which is still in existence, is a jar of honey found in an Egyptian tomb, and probably placed there for the sustenance sus-tenance of the dead during the journey jour-ney across the Stygian river, says the American Forestry Magazine. When found, the honey had changed into a very dry candy and it had lost its sweetness, though It could still be Identified as honey. In the bottom of the jar, well covered cov-ered with honey, was a dead flea of precisely the same sort as those which plague Egypt to this day. Apparently, the insect had hopped into the jar while the last rites over the dead were being observed, and when the jar was corked, the little fellow was shut up witHin, and, like the true patriot, lie probably could have declared that death was sweet. Anyway, he sank to the bottom while the honey was still soft, and there the archeologists found him after a good many thousands thou-sands of years. |