Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — A Wonderful Clock. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Clock.

The most astonishing thing a contemporary ever heard of in the way of a timepiece is a clock describe! by a Hindoo Rajah as belonging to a native prince of upper India, and Jealously guarded as the rarest treasure ot his luxurious palace. In front of the clock’s disk was a govg, swung upon poles, and near it waa a pile of artificial human limbs. The pile was made up of the full, number of >arte of twelve perfect bodies* but all lay leaped together in seeming confusion. Whenever the hands of the clock indicated the hour of 1. out from the pile crawled just the number of parts needed to form the frame of one man, part Joining itself to part, with quick, metallic click; and, when completed, the figure sprang up, seized a mallet, and walking up to the gong struck one blow that sent the sound pealing through every room and corridor of the stately palace. This done, he returned to the pile and fell to pieces again. When 3 o’clock came two men arose and did likewise; and so through all the hours, the number of figures being the same as the number of the hour, till at noon and midnight the entire heap sprang up and, marching to the gong, struck one alter another each hte blow, and then fell to pieces.