Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1915 — MAN, 78, DOES EGG DANCE [ARTICLE]

MAN, 78, DOES EGG DANCE

Blindfolded and Bent With Age, He Does the Steps and Never Broke a Shell. St. Paul, Minn.—Albert Pankopf, seventy-eight years old, bent and white-haired, danced blindfolded among 18 eggs, laid in two rooms at intervals of a foot, for several minutes without breaking a shell. For more than fifty years Professor Pankopf has been performing this feat, but at the annual Schlachtfest of the Saxonia and General German Benevolent association he danced as never before. The years dropped from him as he danced. When the music stopped the old man fell into the arms of a spectator. “Weak heart,” he gasped. He soon recovered himself and bowed in response to the cheers.