Notes and Comments.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 127, 12 November 1901, Page 3

Notes and Comments.

Thors has been quite a sensation in Washington recently artificial on the subject of 15GOS. artificial eggs, writes a correspondent to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A. person who clains to have invented a process for making them —patent newly applied for—has been exhibiting samples and giving them away about town. Some dozens have been served in the clubs, boiled, fried, poached and scrambled,* and the general verdict is that it would be impossible for anybody to distinguish them from real ones. Externally they look exactly like the sort laid by henfi. Break the shell .of a raw specimen and the contents flop in(o a glass in as natural a manner as possible, the yolk and white unmingled. It has been claimed that op imitation egg could ever be made to “beat up” but these do fMlwtlj; Tit* baveatw says "that

hisr eggs are chemically speaking, a precise reproduction of nature. Horn meal is the basis of their material. The white is pure albumen, of course, while the yolk is a more complicated mixture of albumen, and several other elements Inside the shelj is a lining of what looks somewhat like the delicate, 3imy mombrance formed

by the hen, while the shell itself is staled to be in two halves, stuck together so artfully that on one can discover the pining. The very

germ of the chicken, with unnecessary faithfulness of imitation, as one might think, is counterfeited. The eggs are made of various shapes and tints. One will be able to buy as soon as they, are placed on the market, counterfeit i pullets’ eggs or eggs laid by elderly hens; likewise select white eggs or dark coloured eggs, according to choice. Most surprising of all, obey will be sold for only t°n cents a dozen, aud they never get rotten. To confectioners and others who use large quantities of eggs the yolks and whites will be sold separately, put up in jars and hermetically sealed. In this shape they will also bs convenient for household employment.

A long-sentence prisoner escaped the other day from that hokitika. famous institution, the gaol. Hokitika Gaol. The fact would not in itself be either interesting or important but for the knowledge that this gaol has more warders than prisoners, and that the local Press made such a fuss of the man’s recapture. The Hokitika gaol has been referred to in Parliament. If every prisoner bad a warder attached to him there would still be a supply of warders left over looking for something to do. With the aid of the local police this unfortunate prisoner was run. to earth, apparently because he had not sense to keep off a main road, and wa are assured that “ the very prompt capture of the prisoner is highly creditable to the gaol officials and the local police who laid their plans with good judgment. Their smartness in securing such a character wiil relieve the minds of housekeepers who might be anticipating a visit from him with more or less trepidation.” The highly discreditable fact that these officials let the man escape in the first place does not seem to have struck the Hokitika papers. The sweeping out of the Hokitika gaol altogether would not be an unmitigated evil. At present it seems to be a very costly farce.