"eggs Are Cheap Today."

A good trick was played on a Lancashire grocer not long ago by another in the same line of business. Having their shops almost opposite each other, competition ran high and each tried his best to beat the other in prices. Abont the time the joke was perpetrated the market valne of Irish eggs was about 22 for a shilling, but one of them, with his nsual energy, displayed in large letters on his window : "Eggs 24 a shilling!" The other, not to be outdone, sold them at 26, and this underselling kept on until one was wildly disposing of eggs at 40 a shilling. Ñot nntil the iatter had sold all his stock ac a treinendous loss did he discover that the otiwr had been sending a few frierais by a circnitous route to his shop and was seliiug the eKgs over