Genre:

Announcement, Spoof

Subjects:

Breeding, Ornithology, Technology, Invention, Telegraphy, Error

    In a punning conflation of the use of heated instruments for hatching eggs and the adoption of telegraphy by news agencies, announces the invention, by 'Messrs. Reuter, Havas, and Company', of a 'gigantic Eccaleobion'—an electrically powered machine that mass-produces 'ducks', especially the French 'canard' [i.e. hoax or false report].