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Show NOT ACCORDING TO PROGRAV Practical Joker Meant to Astonish His Wife, and Doubtless He Did. When the first shipment of frozen eggs arrived from Australia their ex treme hardness astonished the brok ere. One man, calling at a broker's office, was amaied to see him taking aim at tbe wall with an egg. "What the dickens are you at?" he said. But the broker let drive, the onlj result being a slight dent in the wall The thing being explained, the mao took a couple of the eggs, put them In his pocket, and left to startle his wife. Arriving home, he waited till the family was assembled for dinner, and then banged an egg at the new dado. But the smile quickly faded from Ms face. The egg had thawed. Loo- don Tit-Elts. |