A YANKEE SWINDLE.
The Canada “ Medical Journal ” has the following —“lt is well known that in America everything is counterfeited; ihi wooden hams and nutmegs sent from the New England States are well remembered. Eggs are now also counterfeited, and this manufacture is carried out on a large scale. On one side of a large room the reporter saw several large copper vessels filled with a thick glutinous mass, which a man kept constantly stirring. This was the yellow of . the egg—the yolk. On the opposite side •were similar vessels, in which the white was fabricated. The egg-shells wore made of a white substance resembling plaster of Paris, by means of a blow-pipe, just as soap bubbles are blown. After being dried in an oven, the egg-shells are filled; first with artificial albumen, then with some of the artificial yolk, and lastly with a little of the artificial albumen. The small opening at the end of the egg was closed with white cement; and the greatest achievement, of modern civilisation, the artificial egg, was ready. In appearance it resembled a natural egg; but, whether cooked or raw, it was indigestible and injurious to health.”
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1884, 8 March 1880, Page 3
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194A YANKEE SWINDLE. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1884, 8 March 1880, Page 3
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