Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-05-07

From the chicago Tribune.
A man who sells butter, eggs and cheese
IN State street basement hes invented IN
advertising dodge that will probably 70,
him iuoobed. On one side OF the hole in
the pavement, which is the entrance "a
shops OF that class, stands glass casa For
months past IL hss contained samples oi
butter ano cheesr, but yesterday morning
Its contents inspired degree Of satonish-
ment In passers by thst caueed Q large
number Of people to he late to business.
What they saw Was Q dozen highly-colorsd
Easter eggs on n cast iron arrangement
with . lighted kerosene lamp atiscbed,
labeled Golden Gate Incubator Watch
Elm Hatch" The SHELLS Of several OF the
eggs were irdented, aud through . crack
in one could be seen little chick actually
caught In the act of being hatched. Around
the hoor Of the case btis of colored shell
were scattered, sr d, most marvellous Of all,
the chickens whicn had just picked their
way out Of them and were hopping about
as lively as crickets, were like the eggs, Of
sii the colors OF the rainbow. A thermome-
ter resting sgsirst the cast iron arrange
ment registered 621s degrees.
That's right % said Q seedy, middle.
aged man carrying . dinner-bssket ;
I" that's the tenn peratu required 70 hatch
eggs .srtificially: Even 62 degrees would
cnill 'em, and SO degrees would give 'em
"W'y bless my soul Z" cried an o.d lady
who had driven IN from the country with .
frkin Of rutter, VINO ever set eyes on .
link an blue chicken before!"
g Ain't the eggs the same c,lor : !" in
gu red the man with the dinner basket ar.
guusntativtly.
80 they be, but what has the color Of
the eggs. to DO with the color Of the
chicksf"
"Mebbe the colorin' soaked through, {"
atxd N.r H.
and lettuce wss awaiting purchaser
around the corner on south Water street.
Ye see the chick that's just bein' hatched
is white an 80 IL the shell. F"
Bah, I" said newcomer contemptu.
ously, "they'fe Easter egg+ aud they've
been boiled. Did you ever near OF q boiled
egg Matching !"
BY this time the sidewalk was blocked
clear to the curb, and the debate as to how
tao chickens came to be colored like the
eggs bad become general and rather excl.
ted. The seedy man insisted that 1t was q
natural law that newly batched chickens
were Invariably OF the same color o. the
shell OF the egg which gave them birth. BE
quoted Scripture in support OF his position;
il Jacob could raise striped cattle or not at
his own sweet Will, why could not Q true
believer of the nineteenth century raise
red, white and blue chickens The seedy
man succeeded In convincing nearly every.
body but the individual who had asserted
that the eggs were boiled and cor seq uently
could not be hatChed.
"These chickens" he said, shave been
hstched out by some old hen and painted
with camel's hair brush and uifferent col.
ored inks by the proprietor of the shop
just to attract q crowd and advertise his
business"
"Here comes the proprietor now," said
the seedy man, task him"
Tae proprietor was calm ar d business
Ill Q. He opened the glass case, turned the
WICK OF the burning lamp trihe, exam
ined twD or three eggs carefully, and shut
up the case again. The crowd watc he'd
him in breathless silence.
"Weren't those Easter eggs, boiled %
hard AZ brlcks?" inquired ths sceptinsl In.
dividuh as the proprietor was returning TO
his basement.
"CertsiDlv. Why do you ask p
"And ~ u expect them to hatchpn
"Why, Cf course"
"What! hatch boiled eggs7"
f"Yonug man, did you ever run an incu-
bator p
an no; but"
swell, then, you don't know what
you're talking about" Aud the proprietor
returned 10 his basement.
After dark, when the crowd had dis
persed, the seedy man emerged from the
basement, turned out the lamp in the glsss
case, threw an Old coat over the parti.col.
ored chicks, and put up the shutters.