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Show BROWN'S XATE HOME-COMING ' Striking Clocks Registered a Record ' for Gentleman of Somewhat Convivial Habits. Brown had come home very late after a convivial evening at a smoking smok-ing concert and had consumed more cigars and refreshments that was good for him. It was midnight when he reached home, hut he did not know it. "Ah!' he muttered, "if the church .Mock would only strike, I should know, the time. It's too dark to see." But hark! Just as he spoke the clock began to strike. Breathlessly, Brown counted. "One, two, three, four, live, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve !" But at that moment another clock began. "Thirteen," counted Brown, "fourteen, "four-teen, fifteen great Scott ! sixteen, seventeen, eighteen gracious nineteen, nine-teen, twenty, (!!!), twenty-one, twenty-two (!!!), twenty-three mercy op us ! twenty-four ( ! ! !)." Mopping his steaming brow he exclaimed ex-claimed : "My word, I've never been out so late in all my life!" Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. |