The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-09-02

Chief Justice of the King Bench, for
to Is. Sd. This clock struck hourly.
and was intended to remind the Judges
of the fate of their brother, and teach
lawyers the difference between 13s 4d.
and IS. Sd. 1t was built twoyears after
St. Paufs.
About the year 1865. clock-tower of
stone was erected in the courtyard, OPP
posite the palace, or hail. and the old
clock removed there; but the clock and
towerwere destroyed by the Roundhead
Mob. in 1862, and continued in a ruin
Gus state for fifty-three years. when it
was removed to the side o New Palace
Yard. and now, where this famous old
f, :lock house once stood, is a dial inserted
in the building, relatingthe story of the
/ fine imposed upon Chief-Justice Heng-
! ham.
The clock now in Westminster was
made in 1854. 1t has four dials. each
| twenty-five feet in diameter. The tig-
ures are Gilt. on blue surface. These
dials are said to be the largest in the
world. The minute-hand, on account
of its great length, velocity, weight and
the action of the wind upon it. requires
at east twenty tines more force to
drive it than the hour hand.
1t rms for a week, has pendulum
fifteen feet long (Which weighs $50
pounds) and all the wheels are of cast
iron. Ittakes two hours to win |, and
reports its own time to Greenwich by
electric ty.
St. Dunstan's Church. in Fleet street,
London --One of the most curious and
historic streets in LondOn-bcastedo of q
clock Whose quarters were struck by
two giants, or savages, as they were
called. They were life-sized. wooden
figures, with clubs in their hands, and
they struck the qu ,rters of every hour
on bells. moving their heads at the same
time. They were the pets of cockneys
and cOuntrymen. and attracted great
crowds. Sr Walter Scott speaks of
them in his Fortunes of Nigel" and
Cowper also alludes to them.
The old church was pulled down in
1880, and the Marquis of Hartford
bou hit the old clock and the two famous
savages for t21O.
The ROYAL Exchange clock, in Lon
don. is perhaps the most remarkable of
all. 1t was made in 1874. and is as
noted tor its accuracy of time as the
first Exchange clock was noted for be-
ing the worst-kept clock in London.
The old clock had four dials and
chimes, which played tune at three,
six, nine and twelve o'clock; on Sum
day, the 10th Psalm; Monday, "God
save the King;'' Tuesday, 1.-The
Waterloo March, Wednesday.
There's nae luck ABBOTT the house,
Thursday, '.See, the conquering hero
cOmes;'' Friday, ''Life let us CHERISH
and Saturday, "The Foot Guards
March,"
On January 10, 1888, the Exchange
was entirely destroyed by fire. the clock
tower alone remaining, the dials indi-
eating the exact time at which the
flames reached them-the north at
twenty-five minutes past one, and the
south, five minutes past tive-and the
last air PLAYED by the chimes at twelve
o'clock was, There's nae luck ABBOTT
the house,
If YOU should ever 90 to London, and
visit Westminster Abbey, there in the
nave you will find two small marble
slabs, diamond-shaped, on which is the
simple inscription:
{" Mr.. T. Tompion, 1,l3, and Mr.. G. Graham.
175l."
These men are considered the fithers
OF clOckmaking, and were master and
pupil. and lie buried together.
Now, my little friends, | hOne YOU
will look at your own clock with great {
deal more interest and respect.
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