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Show Mummy as "Dried Fish." The customs authorities at Cher fcourg are tn a quandary as to the admission ad-mission of a postal package containing contain-ing the cremated remains of a Frenchman French-man who died In New York. Not long ago their colleagues at Marseilles were confronted with a somewhat Blm-liar Blm-liar difficulty. A well known French Egyptologist arrived at that port with a royal mummy. The officials were Informed, on Inquiry, that the case contained a Pharaoh. The tariff list was searched In vain for any such article as a Pharaoh, and it was decided de-cided to levy duty on the highest scale In order to be on the safe side. The mummy was accordingly assessed as "dried fiah." |