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Show An All-around Surprise. When the first shipment .of frozen eggs had arrived, their extreme hardness hard-ness astonished the brokers, and a gentleman gen-tleman calling at a broker's office was amazed lo see him taking aim at the wall with an egg. "Whal the dickens are you doing?" he asked. But the man let drive, the only result re-sult being a slight dent In the wall. The thing being explained to him, he took a couple of eggs and put them In his trousers pocket, intending to startle his wife with them. ,, Arriving home, he waited till the family were seated at dinner and then banged one of the eggs at the new wallpaper. But the smile quickly faded from his face. The egg had thawed. |