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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 wai amazed to see him taking aim at th "wall with an egg. "What the dickens are you doingf 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 hanged on of the eggs at the new wallpaper. But the smile quickly faded from hi! face. The egg had thawed. |