The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-12

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goodly portion of the apartment. There
was little work. bench near the window filed
with diminutive tools without number, with
which the curious thing had been fashioned
and shaped, and cut and carved. But before
we describe, even most imperfectly, the ma
chime we had come to see, let us say some
thing of its author Bergman is q German,
about fifty years of age and speaks English
most imperfectly. He is a little diminutive
man, with pale, sallow countenance, and O
look which speaks of care and thought, if not
positive suffering. He is evidently very
poor-the house is almost bare of fur
nlture-and in speaking of the dream
and the work which had so infatuated
him, he said 1t would have been better
for him If he had never experienced
the one nor undertaken the other. He is a
cabinet meker by trade and the skill of an
almost marvellous handiwork as we'll as the
stamp OF remarkable inventive genius is TO
be seen In the construction of the machine.
Bergmann Informed us that fourteen years
ago he dreamt one night of o machine such
as stood before us. At first he thought little
OF it. Then it began to occupy his mind to
the exclusion of other subjects, and after
time he commenced the work. at first at odd
spells, and then quite continuously for days.
Some inexplicable power was urging him on
every time he thought of giving it up. When
the spells of infatuation came upon him,
everything had to be abandoned His ord-
nary work had to be laid aside, even though
there was no bread upon the cupboard shelf
and many night the poor artisan went
hungry to bed. But after years of anxious
toll, the dream is verifed-the work is COM
plete.
THE WONDER.
We will now attempt to describe the ma
chine. 1t is so complicated and does such
wonderful things that perfect description
would fill columns. We hardly know what to
call it, even. 1t beats all the automatons in
the world. The reader must imagine beau
tltui miniature structure set upon a huge
mass of rocks, with road-beds winding up
the sides OF the rocks, and streams of run
ming water coursing down precipitous bluffs
This miniature house represents the resi-
dence of wealthy old miller, with his grst-
mill, saw-mill, oil-mill, etc.. adjoining
There are some thirty figures to bs seen in
the foreground and about the buildings
and mills. There is also a little fountain
in the foreground, with the water play
ing, and lake with a boat aud oars
man. All these mills and figures and
playing waters are set in motion by means
OF combination of machinery similar to the
works of clock, and when these are wound
up and set running every figure takes up its
automatic movement. The old miller sits in
an elegant apartment, reading q newspaper
His eyes follow the column downward. His
head lnclines with corresponding motion.
The column is finished and the sheet is
turned over and the eyes are attracted to
another portion of the paper. Every move
ment is wonderfully life-like. The milIers
wife sits In another apartment industriously
spinning. The domestics are going about
performing theirdaily toll. The saw-mill is
a fac ssn1sle of such an institution The log
is in its place and slides along to meet the
teeth OF the saw, which is working up and
down cutting it in two. The attendants are
all busy in their several duties. The grist-mill
is also going. One man is tending and feed
ing the hopper. Every now and then he goes
back and forth with a tray upon his shoul-
ders, the contents of which he pours into the
mouth of the hopper. The great water wheel
is moving steadily under the pressure of the
water from above, and the elevator keeps up
its show of relieving canal-boat of its load
of grain. Teams loaded with sacks are seen
going to and from the mills. man is
perched upon the gable of the millers home,
little bird-cage to the caves, and
doing his work most perfectly. The oil-mill
is also at work, and the figures are all busy
about it performing their several missions.
The boatman upon the lake is rowing back
wards and forwards, apparently having a good
time all by himself Thus the entire opera
tions of an immense establishment are carried
on with as much defniteness and aim as in
real life, every figure doing its work with the
utmost exactness-the whole forming the
most wonderful combination of machinery we
ever saw, or expect to see. Mr.. Bergman
proposes to exhibit the curiosity next week.
We believe the old man has a fortune in store
for him after his years of vexation and trial.
All who see it will be edited and instructed,
and gain from it enlarged ideas of the eapa-
bilities of the human brain-even when
worked upon and influenced, as in this case,
by that strange and mysterious agency-a