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The recent Ands in the tomb of Tutankh Amen at Luxor served as the basis of an amusing burlesque carried out by the Cambridge undergraduates recently on behalf of the Police Poor and Nerdy Fund and the Olympic Games Fund. The proceedings were announced as the nosenl ing of the recently discovered tomb of a certain Toot-da-Kun-In, which was found to be located in premises on the market hill.
Every window and roof overlooking thei A ple was thronged with people." platoon of blackened-skinned soldiers in gorgeous eastern eps and, armed with slim spears mounted guard over the en trances to the tomb, and kept open a space in which dancing Dervishes, writhing dancing "girl and heavily. armed "Arabs" stepped and jumped, fought and wriggled to the din of tom. toms and railles.
A party of "American tourists" arrived en the scene and were followed by "Lord Carnarvon, "Mr. Carter," and the "Sultan," who, attended by red parasol bearers, inspected the guard "any, then the tomb.
Coolies set to work to bring from the depths a miscellaneous collection of finds. including a 2000 1 motor chassis and at us-trap, suspiciously twentieth-century Cooking.
Three very animated "mummies" were naxt bronght farb, and the,, amid much wating of drums, the mysteriously en- wrapped figure of Toot-An-Kum In was placed alongside the others before the Sultan.
With great ceremony the wrappings were unbound, and there was discovered the partly milk and serene countenance of Phineas, the mascot for whom London University students recently struggled. cazing placidly over the new scenes of nendemic Cambridge This unexpected denouement caused a great sensation and was received with much cheering.
The "manumies" hopped back to thir former retreat, and the remainder of the performers formed a procession which, beaded by brass and drum and fife bands, enrried Phineas in triumph through the streets of Cambridve
The presence of Phireas in Cambridge had heen kept a carefully guarded secret. The mascot was secured by a party of Caius College men: He was repainted in blue," the Caius colours and given his
He is to be returned to London with thanka. for his services in the cause of charity!
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HOW SPIRITUALISM "AND SUPER- STITUTION EXPLAIN IT.
The following Associated Press messages appear in the Manila papers :--
CARO, April 5th.
It was announced to-dar that Earl Carnarvon's death was due to blond poisoning and pneumonin following the hite of an insect.
Thousands of natives firmly believe the vengeance of the pharaohs was visited upon the explorer who opened King Tutankharaen's tomb. Some believe that Earl Carnarvon came in coarnet" with poison left in the tomb thirty-three con- turies ago to safeguard the king in his last sleep.
"NEW YORK, April 5th,
Sir A. Conan Doyle, novelist, arrived here to-day from England on his second series of lectures on spiritualism. He ex- nressed the belief that an "evil elemental." brought into being by Egyptian occul- tism, might have caused the death of Earl Carnarvon at Cairo.
Sir Conan Doyle when asked if he agreed with Marie Correlli, author, who warned Earl Carnarvon that it was dan eerous to enter the Luxor tomb because Tutankhamen's spirit night be angered, said:
"One does not know what elementals existed in those days. If the Egyptians could have put these elementals on guard over their dead bodies, they would cer tainly have done so."
Fle defined elementals as an artificial thing imbued with force and brought into being by the spirit mind or by nature."
LONDON, April 6th.
The T dispatch from Cairo today says that Earl Carnarvon was hitten on the right cheek, it is believed by a mos- quito. In shaving be cut the welt raised by the mosquito bite which resulted in blood poisoning which although subse quently cured, Jest him weak and in such 2 condition that he fell victim to pnea- monía.
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NEW YORK. April 5th. By Earl Carnarvon's death at Cairo, Egypt, another American woman attains The high rank in the British peerage. new earl who is the son of the discoverer of King Tutankhamen's tomb, married Catherine T. Wendell, a commission mer- chant of Now. York.
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