STRANGE, BUT TRUE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4972, 28 February 1877, Page 3

STRANGE, BUT TRUE.

Under this heading the Bendigo Advertiser says:—Wonders will never cease as long as there is faith on the earth, and the latest illustration of this remark lies in that germ of life—an egg. The particulars, as related to us, are as follows : —On Wednesday last, at 4.30 p.m., a woman named Perkins, residing at the back of the Mechanics' Institute, happened to pass the door of her hen-house at the moment her daughter, a girl seventeen years of age, came out with an egg in her hand, exclaiming excitedly, "Look, ma, look, something good is coming to us; look at what is written on this egg." Mrs. Perkins opened her eyes with astonishment on seeing traced on the shell, in plain, neat, handwrioing, " Let us be happy." She had been very ill for some time, and hardly able to crawl about; but now, under the inspiring influence of what she conceived to be a heavenly message, strength returned to her body and contentment to her mind, and she has since been able to scrub floors and clean up generally with a vigor most surprising to herself. That it was a message from spirit land written with a pen dipped in the ethereal blue is Mrs. Perkins's firm belief. She solemnly swears by all that is holy that she never wrote it, and she cannot conceive the possibility of any one else having done so. She further states that her daughter says that the writing must have been on the egg when the hen laid it, for when she went to see if there were any eggs the hen rose from her nest, and there was the egg, quite waim. The hen, too, appeared to be greatly excited and set up an immense cackling, while the old rooster chimed in with apparent delight. Mrs. Perkins says her daughter is rather eccentric, and for a long time has been in the habit of inspecting the eggs, under the impression that good news would come through them. The egg was brought to the office of a noted spiritualist, who at once suggested, if a trick had not been played, that a genuine spirit communication had been received, and that in all probability Miss Perkins was a valuable medium ; or it might be that some of the magnetism pervading his office had been carried home by Mrs. Perkins, either about her person or in some old matting she had received, and hence the spirit atraction and writing. The egg is to be seen at Mrs. Perkins's house, carefully laid by in a small box. Efforts have been made to obliterate the writing with a wet handkerchief, but these have failed. Whether salts of lemon would have that effect would be an interesting experiment ■