A YANKEE SWINDLE.
The Canada " Medical Journal " has the following—" It is well known that in America every thing is conterfeitcd, th e wooden hams and nutmegs sent from the New England States are well remembered. Eggs are now counterfeited, and this manafacture is carried out on a large scale. Oh one sibe of a large room the reporter saw several large copper vessels filled with a thick glutinous mass, which o man kept constantly stirring. This was the yellow of the egg —the yolk. On the opposite side were similur vessels, in which the white was fabricated. The egg-shells
were ii>;»<> of a white substance resembl- ' ■ iog plaster of Paris, tJjf mesne of a blow pipe, just as soap babbles are blown. After being dried in an oven. the eggshells are filled ; firht with artificial albumen, then with some of the artificial y<»l's and lastly with a little of the artificial albumen. The small opening- at t-nd of toe phell was closed with white cement ; and th-? greatest achievment of modern civilisation, the artificia e oo? was ready. In appearance- i resembled a natural egg } but, whether cooked or raw, it was indigestible and injndous to health."
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Temuka Leader, Issue 249, 1 April 1880, Page 2
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198A YANKEE SWINDLE. Temuka Leader, Issue 249, 1 April 1880, Page 2
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