Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-30


SOMETHING New IN EGGS. A French
paper recently gave an account of the
latest fraud-artiticia eggs. 1t says: The
news comes to us from San Francisco that
there has just been shown up in that city II
method for the manufacture of artificial
eggs, in which injurious substances are
used. If this report is to be credited, the
white of the egg is initiated by the mix
ture of sulphur, carbon and fat from
slaughtering houses, the whole rendered
glutinous by the addition of mucilage
The yolk is made of blood, phosphate OF
lime magnesii, muriate of ammonia, and
cleric and margaric acids, and is colored
with chrome yellow. The shell is prepar.
ed in pipe clay mould from plaster ol
Paris and carbonate of lime, with little
oxide of iron. After the shell has been
blown, a hole is punched in the small end
and it is partly lilled with the prepared
albumen which sticks to the walls; the
yolk is then added and enough more of the
albumen to fill the egg full, when the hole
is stopped up. The egg is then polished
and set aside to be packed away.
REMARKABLE SHOOTING. doctor Car
yer, at recent exhibition in England
placing ten glass balls on the ground
fired a bullet into the turf Immediately
beneath. The missile tearing up the suil,
threw the balls into the air, and they were
broken as they rose. The doctors great.
est feat was performed for Il wager of one
hundred pounds sterling. that he would
hit an apple upon the end of knife held
by his colored attendant riding on horse.
back at full gallop, ut IL distance of thirty
yards. A large apple WAS procured and
stuck on the end of II pruning knife. The
get with his left hand rs far as possible
behind his body. The start was made
about one hundred yards away. and when
the rider came within range, riding at Il
furious galop, the doctor fired. The first
attempt was failure, and odds of ter
pounds to two pounds were bet against
Carver. The second time he struck the
apple, knocking it into half-a-d dozen pieces
TIE LEADING BORDER OUTLAw.-"The
man with the gold tooth" is at present the
terror of the frontier. His name is Mid
dleton, and he is thirty five years old. He
began his career as IN outlaw in 1877 al
Sidney, Nebraska, where he killed n man
and was convicted of murder. He escaped
from Sidney organized II band of robbers
plundered, burnt and murdered until the
fall OF 1877, when he was lodged in Jail,
only TO tunnel himself out with II coal
scuttle. Reorganizing with fifty men he
stole 5000 head of cattle from the Ponca
Indians. The robbery of German settle
mcnt on the Ekhorn led to hot pursuit
by squad of horsemen. The trail was
followed for three days. On the morning
Of tho fourth day the Germans awoke to
find their pickets murdered and every
horse stolen. Middleton gets his soubri-
quot from the front upper tooth made
entirely of gold. lie is six feet tall and
wears II fierce black moustache, under
which the tooth shines like II grain of corn.
Two needle guns, four revolvers and two
dlrks make up his armament.
Colonel Mosby, now United States con
sui at Hong Kong, has given offence to the
British officials there by refusing to appear
at public entertainments in II court dress.
1t is suggested that as diplomats and con.
suls who served in the army are permitted
TO wear their uniforms, Mosby might as
well wear his old confederate gray uni
form, with slouch hat and high boots.