Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — Marvelous Mechanism. [ARTICLE]

Marvelous Mechanism.

Birr the strangest thing we ever heard of in the way of a timepiece was a clock described by a Hindu Rajah as belonging to a native Prince, andi Jealously guarded as on* of the rarest treasures of bis luxurious palace. In front of the clock’s disk waa a gong swung upon poles, and near it was a pile of artificial human limbs. The pile was made up of the full number of parts necessary to constitute twelve perfect bodies-; but all lay heaped together in apparent eoufusioa. When the hands of the clock indicated the hour of one, out from the pile crawled just the number of parts needed to form the frame of one man, part coming to part, with ouick,. mechanic clickvhw pleted, the figure sprang up, seized a mallet, and, walking up to the gong, struck one blow that sent the sound pealing through every cenridor and room in that stately palace- This done, he returned to the pile and fell to pieces again When two o'clock came, two men arose and did likewise; aad at the hours of noon and midnight the entire heap sprang up, and, marching t» the gong, struck one after the other hia blow, making tweive in all, and then, returning, fell to pieces as before. —Troy (N. T.) Timet.