162 MISCELLANEOUS. 
sponge cake, delicate custards and frozen creams 
and puddings and the thousand and one things 
we owe to the egg?” 
H. W. BEECHER. 
Philadelphia, according to The Record, eats in 
the course of the year 200,000,000 eggs, of 
which seven eighths come from Iowa, Kansas, 
Minnesota and Nebraska, packed in refrigerator 
cars holding 144,000 each. 
In the ordinances of fares to be served to the 
King’s Highness and the Queen’s Grace as 
made at Eltham in the seventeenth year of King 
Henry VIII., butter and eggs appear in the. 
second course on both Flesh and Fish Days. 
“The ordinary prices for all kinds of poultry 
stuff to be served by the aforesaid William 
Gurley” as decreed in these ordinances: “ For 
egos from Shrovetide till Michaelmas, the hun- 
dred, 14d. For eggs from Michaelmas till 
Shrovetide, the hundred, 20d.” 
