Photographing A Mummy's Bones

A collector of curios in I'hüadelphia says he owes a debt of grati tude to Prof. Roentgen. While traveling in Egypt he surreptiously purch;used what was reputed to be the muminified hand of a {XM-sonag-e of rank, who flourisJied 3,000 or 4,000 years ago. The brown and withered hand was looked upon as a great prize by its possessor, who brought it with no little pride to this country, with the idea of placiag it in a nationnï museum. Cynical friends pronounced the hnnd a fake and the general verdict was: "It is a modern tnake-up; it is only pitch, mixed with pieces of refuse mmnmy eloth', -th new fing-er nails stuek in." Thus an element of doubt was likely forever to hover about the relie, which was still regarded as too valuable to be. dissected for examination. Keenly disappointed and almost in despaJr, the travcler took it to an X-ray photographer ánd asked him to malie a. picture of it. In a few minutes the sensitive plate showed the perfect bones of a human hand to the confounding of the eritics and lo the delig-ht of the owner of the curfcms memento of ancient civilization.