Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — Hew to Tell that Eggs are Eggs. [ARTICLE]

Hew to Tell that Eggs are Eggs.

A good egg will sink in water. * a boiled egg which is done will dry quickly on the shell when taken from the kettle. After an egg has laid a day or more, the shell comes off easily when boiled. A fresh egg has a lime-like surface to its shell. Stale eggs are glassy and smooth of shelL i Eggs which have been packed In lime look stained and show the action of the lime on the surface. Eggs packed in bran for a long time smell and taste musty. With the aid of the hands or a piece of paper rolled in funnel shape and held toward the light, the human eye can. took through an egg, shell and aIL, If the egg ia clear and golden in appearance when held to the 'right it is goo«; If dark or spotted, it is badT The badness of an egg can sometimes be told by shaking it near the holder's earbut the test i» a dangerous one. Thm shells are caused by a lack of gravel, etc., among the hens laying the devices have been tested to eegsfreah, bat the less tinman egg is kept the better for the egg and the one who eate it. .■ Lives there a skeptic who deep down m his own heart would not believe in the simplest forms of Christianity if he could ? The oddest, the most pathetic utterances, are the utterances of men who with the —ln a country grave-yard, in New Jersey, there is a plain stone, erected over the grave of a beautiful young lady, with wly upon it; “Julia