Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1878 — One Egg a Week. [ARTICLE]

One Egg a Week.

The number of eggs annually laid by a fowl is estimated at 52, which would weigh about six pounds, and, as a fowl seldom weighs more than three pounds, a hen lays, annually, double her own weight. Seventeen eggs will weigh, on the average, two and one-fifth pounds. —London Groper. The Gennan Emperor will soon resume his sovereign duties in their entire extent. There was at one time an idea of lightening his Majesty’s burden bv dividing the supreme oontrol between him and the Crown Prinoe.