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Show plate. Looking again, he saw two plates, each containing the three eggs that constituted his usual breakfast. He protested to his wife aga'nst her extravagance. Illsf wife denied that there were more than three eggs before be-fore him. The husband looked up to see If Mrs. Graves was joking and i discovered that he was a bigamist. I Gktuclng around tho table, he found i a sextette of youthful faces where the I night before there had been but a trio. I Ke punched at one of the sextette with his fork to test its reality, but the prongs penetrated nothing more sub- l stantial than air. When he started down town he picked up two hats. Out on the corner he hesitated between two street cars and then tried to clamber clam-ber on the one that did not exist, falling fall-ing heavily. He has consulted oculists i in pairs only and they tell him that his eyes are working independently, independent-ly, instead of together, each reporting to the brain what it sees. They do not offer him much consolation and j therefore he has sued the trucking I company for damages. i SEES DOUBLE There are some men and a few women in the world more, perhaps, than would care to admit it who can secretly se-cretly sympathize with John Edward Graves of Jersey City. Mr. Graves sees double. He sees two dollars, tor instance, where there Is only one, and when that one is gone he sees a double quantity of nothing. But Mr. Graves, unlike some men and women whose trouble can be traced directly back to the corn or hops field, is not ashamed of his double vision. He can't be, or ho would never have commenced suit against the Dynacke Murray Trucking company for damages. He lays his trouble to a truck. Last June, it seems, before he began to see everything in ! twin form, he was knocked down by a wagon belonging to the Dynacke Murray Mur-ray company. His eyes 'were blackened blacken-ed and bruised and his nose was mashed. mash-ed. He treated himself at home and experienced no further trouble until October, when his eyes began to pain blm. Oculiats could give him no relief, re-lief, but the pain finally departed as suddenly as it had c-ome. and Mr. Graves enjoyed an untroubled month". On the morning of tho first of November, Novem-ber, however, as bo sat down to the breakfast table, he noticed that his wife had placed lx fired eggs on his |