The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1882-07-19
THE WONDERS OF oLocK-MAwrNG.
Some ofthe Marvellous Clocks TINT Human
Ingenuity Has Devised.

Ingenuity Has Devised.
II is quite unnecessary to enumerate the
marvellous clocks which have world wide
celebrity, the Strasburg clock, for example,
or that of Berne, or the many old cathedral
clocks in England as, for instance, that in
Exeter, which retains the striking part made
in 1900, while the great clock in Canterbury
Cathedral is nearly 600 years old. But we
must not omit to mention curious contro-
versy between the towns-folk of Beauvais,
in France, and those of the famous German
towns with regard to the respective merits
of their celebrated clocks The townsmen
of Beanvais claimed that besides recording
calendar days of the week, month, year,
zodiacal signs, eclipses, phases Of the roon,
etc., their clock indicated events occurring
not oftener than once in 400 years for ex-
amply, IN the centuries out of four the last
year leaps its bissextile, and the clock leaps
from Feb. 20 to the first of March, move
Strasburger, not to be outdone, claimed that
his towns clock not only did all that the
Beauvais clock could accomplish, but in
computator, and gave all its indications,
golden numbers, solar cycles, etc., and
wound up by asserting That the Beauyais
clock makes change every four centuries,
but ask an astronomer what it meant by the
procession of the equinoxes. He will tell
you that it is a movement of the stars des-
cribing complete revolution round the
earth in the space of $4,000 to go years. In
our Strasburg clock their is this movement
which receives only one revolution in $4,000
years. As this whole thing adds the apol-
ogist of the strasburg clock, can be meas
nred and Indicated it is unnecessary TO await
its accomplishment" Well, we are glad of
that
1t is of interest to know that two clocks
have been exhibited in this country within
the last two years which were made, we be-
heve, at Columbus, Ohio, and one of which
is an exact reproduction of the world-re-
nowned clock of Strasburg Cathedral When
we come to a consideration of modern clocks
we find variety, limited only by length of
purse and purpose, for which they are in
tended from the little time-piece costing
less than dollar, suitable for shipboard
travelling, to the exquisite horologe in mar
BILE and gold, with its canoes and statuettes
costing its hundreds of dollars. Musical and
Ginning clocks play an important part in
modern households as surely as they are
los N favor in church steeples, They were
invented in Germany, and used by them in
IA fn1 IN
times exceeding sweet in tone and some
times very great nuisance. However,
chime clocks are favorites in many homes,
and what is known as the Westminster
chime is as popular as the cuckoo clock of
German origin was while ago. Clocks are
of course, adapted in style to the rooms for
which they are intended, and certainly no
room is complete without one 1t is beeom-
ing more and more usual to increase their
number, and rs every one nowadays carries
-s.se~s- ossss., -5,uty
room, however humble, has its clock In
France notably, and in England usually it
is the fashion to have mantel-shelf sets, in
GLIDING the clock and candelabra of the
same style, and very handsome such sets
often are. For dining-rooms they would DO
in marble or bronze, or dark carved woods
in the drawing rooms of ormolu or gilt,
beautifully decorated very often with medal
lions painted by hand, and frequently COW
cred by glass shades. Very handsome stands
are made in Dresden china, the value of the
clock depending, after certain moderate
sum for the works, entirely upon the ma
terial AMI workmanship of the case.