Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-11-18
THE sTRAsBURG CLOCK.


piece Of machinery is from g the Daguerreotype y
Incompehensible and solitary, like all that i,
great and true rises the Minister of strasburg walke{
round and round it and sought the which stand
Ewn's statue the figure Of Justice On the opposite sd
of the church is the portal which is the maydom Of 81
Laurenius, within abo were, of stone open al
around and full of hanging grapevne In the principal e
trance the left wise virgins with their lamps nnoceIt
and simple the right saints, with demons evil sps
under their heels On the gate angels above angel
on the other martyrs As look up and down and coneh-
plate the countless images Of stone in their nche their SIC
Tened lips oosened, hear their voices, their hymns DE
whole pile becomes melody the swell Of separate NETS
into one gigantic symphony.
cornyman sitting costly with his wife upon oneof
the steps OF the church smoking his pipe Near them s
tered myself in OF the wall the id-dny sln
and hae awaited the friend who was TO take me TO the e-
stored clock, the work Of Dasypodus and Of the Habrec
the masterpiece Of the sixteenth century, which has
celebrated in German and Latin by the poets of that age
lander, Fischnr, Cusus, Cell and Frischn, and whIh
according TO the Latin inscription the portal Of the ar
episcopal palace at Mayence of the wonders of
Germany the tower al Srasbug, the choir at Cologne he
clock at Srasburg, the organ at Um, the fair Frank6
the works of art at Nuremberg and the hotel de vile at
burg There popular tradition, according whichhe
magistrates clergy of Strasburg caused the eyes ohhe
builder Of this old clock to be put out in order that he
not achieve another work Of the knd and he to revenge
himself with single push deranged the whole machnS
may be that the sister Of the two Habechs became bind
about the time that Joas the younger Of these Scba
hansen mechanics invited before the works quite
complete, by the Elecor Of Cologne erect astronomical
clock IN the castle of KaserswoIth.
As The twelfth hour approached mutudss running
from every side they all 10 this curiosity Of
medava times although the clock adapted by theaged mahe
macan Schwgue, to the present state science, has
been going four years. My friend astappeaed, and
had barely time push way through The crowd and
ascend the small winding staircase which leads into the four
stories of the clock and the small balcony in which
suspended like swallows against this mathematical monument
looking down pependcuary upon dense mass of heads
whose eyes and lips all fixed upon one point On
Of the lower galleries angel guarded by lions which for
merry roared and holding scepe and bells in It's hands,
strikes the quarters and another round the
In upper space the four ages Of life then step forward the
child strikes the first quarter with its thsus upon BELL the
youth strikes the half hour with his arrow the armed warrior
the third quarter with his sword and lie old the fourth
with his cruch then Death appears the hour with
his bone and the sound Of the last STOKE dies away the
figure Of Christ forward yet higher story, and raises
its right for blessing the wel apostles, after
the other pass before him, and passing incline themselves
before the Saviour, who, conclusion, his blessing
the spectators their eyes, in the we turn to the cock
who proudly sits high up small tower he flaps his wings,
stretches out his head and his tall ruhs his neck and thrice
his shr growing sounds loud and cleS.
Among The old paintings which ado the case of the clock
of the most conspicuous is the por OF Ccpcrlcus
cordng whose system the panetaun which the
gallery Of the lions is erected thenoment when Calico
condemned, the scientific If Slrasburg protested
against the Judgment and erected onumen to the Polish
in this astral clock, which trophy of truth,
is placed in the sanctuary After lie exhibition
cuded stepped into the interior Of he astronomical works,
which wound up in eight day. and in which endless
combinations Of wheels revolving in perfect silence.
solemn and mysterious sensation seies upon here, it
in the workshop of the sEss of the hours The
conception is certainly lofty one t of showing forth the
whole structure of the heavens Bed that small wheel The
only purpose of which make az take the place of
when the second thousand years the Christian shall
have elapsed On last New Year the whole ilu-
minated the interior also, and all be aises Of the church
crowded with spectators. Th interest which
cited intense, when, with the hh stroke Of the clock,
sprang into the place of the air the A. The who
explained it all us, laborS, exclaimed with much
warmth, One would almost suppse that the machine
think makes think of the bo viii, circuaes through
the veins of the human body."-Da iiorgenLtGa