Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — Grewsome Timepiece. [ARTICLE]

Grewsome Timepiece.

A prince in faraway India owns a most weird and remarkable clock, says the Philadelphia Record. The dial is replaced by a gong and beneath it on a silver plate lie a heap of artificial human skulls and bones, the component parts of twelve /keletons. When the hands mark the hour of 1 the number of bones making one skeleton come together with a click and invisible mechanism forces the skeleton to its feet. It seizes a mallet, strikes the gong one blow and subsides Into pieces. As the hours strike so many skeletons rise to represent them from the heap and when the hour of noon strikes the sight of twelve' skeletons striking the hour is said by those who have witnessed it to be grewsome and even terror-inspiring. Why not put them on the midnight shift?