Show try ary mania for clocks clock about ten years ago a man named died in new york who was known as the clock miser the details of his life were told in the daily papers when a young man he became the junior partner in a manufacturing firm and threw into his work such energy and intelligence that a career opened before him both useful and successful it was necessary that he be punctual each morning at t his office and for this reason he bought a swiss clock and placed it opposite to his bis bed doubting its correctness he bought another of german make and concerned himself to keep the two running exactly together he grow grew interested in their mechanism studied their points of difference and began to buy I 1 from time to time other clocks he had ceased now to care for clocks for their real use and valued them as curiosities and articles of property the whim grew upon him as the years passed he was learned in the history and in all the peculiarities of the different time pieces that he possessed his accumulation increased until he I 1 had specimens from almost every clock making nation so keen was his zeal in this pursuit that he grew indifferent to every other object in life dropped his friends and at last lived in a large dingy house with only an oja servant and the ticking multitude tude of clocks that seemed unceasingly to strike the funeral knell of his wasted years interest in man or woman he had none but spent his time among his hi treasures winding them and talking to them as if they were live creatures he died at last in his house were found over four hundred clocks |