A writer in the Rural New Yorker tells the young folks how they may perform the magic feat of putting an egg into a bottlo. Like many other things it is easy when you know how. This is the way it is done : Soak a fresh egg for several days in strong vinegar. The acid of the vinegar will eat the lime of the shell, so that while the egg looks the same, it will be soft and capable of compression. Select a bottle with the neck a third smaller than the egg. With a little care you will have no trouble in pressing the latter into the bottle. Fill the bottle halffull of lime-water and in a few days yon will have a hard-shelled egg in a bottle with a neck a third smaller than the egg. Of course, you pour off the lime as soon as the shell hardens. How the egg got into the bottle will be a conundrum that few can answer-
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7681, 15 January 1886, Page 4
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