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 ACURIoUs SOURCE OF REVENUE has been discovered in Egypt, which will help Mehemet Ali to carry out his improve ments of road making, canal digging and drainage It is none other than that to be derived from fine linen in which the immense deposites of mummies are wraps ped, when applied to the manufacture of paper. Calculations have been made, founded upon mummy statistics. which show the linen swalhings of these an- cient Egyptians to be worth twen,y.one millions of dollars. If it be worth haE the money, i, is no inconsiderable amount. The idea of turning the winding sheets oftae defunct of thousands of years ago, into printed sheets for the intelligence of the living, is cer,ainlya novel one. and proves how utilitarian are the notions which the Egyptian sovereign is infusing into his people.