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Show Red Tape in France. There Is now lying in the Paris morgue a mummy that is tho causo of a dlsoute between tho notice, who Insist that It Is an unidentified corpse, nnd tho owner, who In qulto sure that it Is a pleco of furniture. Tbo dispute Is tho sequel to a fire In a flat. Tho firemen found tho mummy amid the ruins of a cupboard. It was placed in a sack and conveyed to the morgue "for Identification." The owner of the flat has done everything possible to get It back. But tho police reply to all representations with the question, "la a mummy a corpse yes or no?" "Yes," says tho ownor, "but " "Thero Is no but," declaro tho police; "a mummy is a corpse, and this is tho place for corpses." |