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Show ALL WANTED NOISY CLOCKS. Manufacturer Had to Meet Demand of Savages. A clockmakcr discovered that a rival was sending out largo stocks of cheap clocks to tho heart of Africa, and doing good business with them. Ho spent a largo sum In making better bet-ter clocks and shipped thousands of them to tho samo market. Strango to say, his sales wero small, although his rival, turning out a cheap and In-accurato In-accurato timepiece, was selling all ho could make. Finally ho found a key to tho mystery. Savages llko nolso. Tho clocks nindo by tho first oxportot had a particularly loud and aggrcs-slvo aggrcs-slvo tick. His competitor had made a better clock, but It was almost noiseless, noise-less, and tho savages would havo none of It. Tho next cargo of clocks which tho maker shipped to tho Guinea coast ticked louder thnn nnything ovor heard there, and they sold llko pink lomonado at a crcus. |