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Show Clocks That Strike Thirteen. I Among the most curious clocks In the world, says Harper's Weekly, are two In Worsley. Lancashire, England. ' that never strike one. Instead, they 1 strike 13 at one a. m. and one p. m. I One of them is over the earl of El lea- I mere s place call-d Worsley hall, and la tbe original clock which the duke , of bridgewater bad placed In tbe tower. tow-er. It Is said that the duke had the clock made to strike the "unlucky" 1 umber so as to warn his workmen ' that It was time to return after din 1 ner, some ef tln'tu having excused themselves for being late on tbe ground that they could not hear It trlke one. |