The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-03-05

In Mepgle's building, Reading. Pa.
now on exhibition. in all probability

In Mepgle's building, Reading, Pa. +.
1 now on exhibition. in all probability
tho most wonderful clock in this world.
1t was built by Stephen ID. Eugle, a
matchmaker, at Hazleton. He is abOnt
forty-fiye years Of age, aud was fully
twenty years in perfecting tho clock.
Mr.. Reid paid Engle $4,000 for it. Mr..
Engle never saw the Strasburg clock.
In fact, he has not travelled more than
two hundred miles from home at any
time. This clock stands eleven feet
high. At its base it is about four feet
wide, aud at the top about two. II is
about three feet deep at the base,
gradually less towards the top. It's
colors are dark brown and gold. The
Strasburg clock is thirty feet high, yet
its mechanism is not so intricate nor
has il as many figures as the Hazleton
clock. Tho Strasburg clocks figures
are about three feet high and the
American clocks about nine inches.
Three minutes before the hour, a pipe
organ inside the clock, plays an an
them. 1t has Ave tubes. Bells are
then rung. and when the hour is
struck, double doors in an alcove open
and figure OF Jesus appears. Double
doors to the left then open, and the
apostles appear slowly, one by one, in
procession. As they appear aud pass
Jesus they turn towards him. Jesus
bows, the apostle turns again and pro-
ceeds through the double doors in an
alcove on the right. As reter ap-
proaches, Satan looks out of window
above and tempts him. Five times the
devil appears, and when Peter passes,
denying Christ. the cock flaps it's wings
and crows. When Judas appears, Sa-
tan comes down from the window and
follows Judas out in the procession,
and goes back up TO his place to watch
Judas, appearing on 10th sides. As
the procession has passed, Judas and
the three Mary's disappear and the
doors are closed. The scene can be re-
peated seven times an hour il necessa-
~, aud the natural motion OF the clock
produces II four times per hour. where
as the Strasburg procession is made
but once a day, at IL o'clock. Below
the piazza is the main dial, nbout thir-
teen inches in diameter. To its right
il figure of Time with aud hour-glass.
Above this is window, at which ap-
pear representing youth, manhood and
Ii age. To the left OF the dial is
skeleton representing Death. When
the hour hand approaches the first
quarter, Time reverses his hour-glass
and strikes one on a bell with his
scythe, when another bell inside ro-
spends; then Childhood appears in
stantly. When the hour hand APP
proaches the second quarter or half
hour, there are heard the strokes OF
two bells. Then youth appears and
the organ plays hymn. After this
Time strikes two and reverses his hour
glass, when two bells respond inside.
One minute after this a chime OF bells
ia heard, when folding door opens in
the upper porch and one at the right
Of the court, when the Savior comes
walking out. Then the apostles APP
pear in procession. The clock also
tells the moons changes, the tides, the
seasons, days, aDd days Of the month
and year, and the signs OF the zodiac;
and on top, q soldier in armor is con-
stantly on guard, walking back and
forward. As the hours advance, Man
hood, Old Age. and Death take part in
the panorama.