Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — A Rare Egg. [ARTICLE]

A Rare Egg.

The sale in Lon lon of an egg of the extinct giant bird Epyornis at a high price was lately noted. The Epyornis was, in reality, the fabulous Boc, of Sinbad the Sailor, in “Arabian Nights.” It- has been brought to London by a Mr. J. Proctor, of Tamatave, in Madagascar. It was discovered by some natives about twenty miles to the southwest coast of Madagascar. The egg, which is whitey-brown in color and unbroken, is a fine specimen, thirty-three and a half inches by twenty-eight inches, and an even higher value is placed upon it than upon the egg of the great auk, which lived within) the memory of man. The immense proportions of the egg are better demonstrated by comparison with the eggs of th<fostrich and crocodile. An ostrich egg is about seventeen inches by fifteen inches, and the contents of six such are only equal to one egg of the Epyornis. The measurements of the egg of the crocodile are normally nine inches by six and a half inches. It would require the contents of sixteen and a half emu eggs to equal the contents of this great egg, or 14b egg's of the homely fowl, or 30,000 of the humming bird.

If Prof. Garner really has mastered the monkey language, as he says, it won't be fair to let him go into the circus hereafter at the ordinary price of 50 cents, any more than it would be in the case of a man with six eyes —one pair for each one of the triple rings. A philosopher is a man who does not try to argue With others until he knows ho ego down them.