On Tuesday last one of the swans in Central Park laid a hen's egg.

Cream 1 cup of butter with 2 cups of brown sugar; add 4 beaten eggs, 1 teaspoonful of soda dissolved in 1 large cup of strong coffee, 1 cup of molasses, 4 cups of sifted flour, 1/2 teaspoonful each of nutmeg, allspice, cloves and mace, 2 teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar sifted with 1/2 cup of flour, 1 cup of raisins, 1/2 cup of currants and chopped citron.

Then beat 4 eggs with 1/2 cup of sugar.

Heat some butter in a pan; then break in as many eggs as needed and fry them; add some sliced onions.

You have eaten the last two eggs; and I found them, and they were mine!

Take and boil half a dozen eggs, half a dozen apples, a pound and a half of beef-suet, a pound of currans, and shred them, so season it with mace, nutmeg and sugar to your taste, a spoonful or two of brandy, and sweet meats, if you please.

Nor is one long left in doubt what these solid particles are; for the blowflies, attracted by the odour of the meat, swarm round the vessel, and, urged by a powerful but in this case misleading instinct, lay eggs out of which maggots are immediately hatched, upon the gauze.

Who stole four eggs I laid, And the nice nest I made?" "Not I," said the cow, "Moo-oo!

"Not exsactly," was his reply; "she would have hatched every egg, butbutbut," and he broke down and bust into teers.

" He left her and rubbed the lamp, and when the genie appeared commanded him to bring a roc's egg.

I know some friends of mine landed there not long ago and cooked eggs over the jets of steam which gush out of the mountainside.

We determined, however, to explore it, but had not gone far when we found a roc's egg, as large as the one I had seen before and evidently very nearly hatched, for the beak of the young bird had already pierced the shell.

Place the soup on the fire, and when boiling and well skimmed, whisk the eggs with it till nearly boiling again; then draw it from the fire, and let it settle, until the whites of the eggs become separated.

As soon as she had gone, Ali took an egg and put it into his mouth.

Its dinner about twelve o'clock, to consist, every other day, of a small quantity of animal food (chicken, fresh mutton, or beef, being the only meats allowed) with a little bread and water; on the alternate days, well boiled rice and milk, a plain bread, sago, tapioca, or arrow- root pudding, containing one egg; or farinaceous food, with beef-tea.

It is a great resort for turtle in the season of depositing their eggs.

"Next time, Patsy," he said, "you must buy six eggs.

the crows they keep a-comin' an' snippin' up the little creturs jest as soon's they're hatched; an' the old turkey hen't sot under the grapevine she got two hen's eggs under her, 'n' they come out fust, so she quit" Here I bolted out of the door, (a storm at sea did not deafen one like that!)

A hen somewhere in Virginia, according to a local paper, has lately produced an egg on the white of which the word "War" was plainly written in black letters.

[Illustration: "GOOD-BYE."] "Good-bye," she said, curtly; "I am late for the market, and must sell my eggs quickly or shall not get my price.

Yet, although cats are dangerous neighbours for the birds, they are necessary to defend them from the approach of rats and mice, which will not only suck the eggs, but destroy the birds.

FOR EGGS.Many of the most learned philosophers held eggs in a kind of respect, approaching to veneration, because they saw in them the emblem of the world and the four elements.

Now place the eggs in a jar, pour over them the vinegar, &c., boiling hot, and, when cold, tie them down with bladder to exclude the air.

To poach an egg to perfection is rather a difficult operation; so, for inexperienced cooks, a tin egg-poacher may be purchased, which greatly facilitates this manner of dressing ecgs.

"Surely, it is a pity that such fair lasses should be forced to carry eggs to market.