Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1891 — Curiosities in Eggs. [ARTICLE]

Curiosities in Eggs.

Wo mctourold friend,Mr. Jessie Eaton on tho street the other day, and he told us of a wonderful egg his daughtercarne across a short sime ago. On breaking it she discovered another perfectly formed egg with a shell inside of it. It was about the size of a partridge egg. Another gentleman standing by told of a curiosity in tho shape of a double chicken that had been hatched on his place. Tho backs of the twins wero united, and while one would bo standing on its feet tho feet of tho other would be. pointing upward. Whon growing tired of this position it, or they, would flop over and stand on the other feet, the positions being reversed. He said the chickens lived several days.—[Farmington (Mo.) Times.

Thk cook of a surveying party broke liis leg while encamped on one of the mountains in Cowlitz county, Wash., and after it had been set tho surveyors pre»ared to carry him to the nearest settlement. He weighed 230 pounds, and four men had to handle the stretcher. Tho first day they covered a distance of less than three miles, tho descent being so steep that tho man had to be lashed to the stretcher and lowerod from point to point. They were nine days on the journey, but the cook encouraged them ut times by singing and whistling.