Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-03-02

tains the extraordinary number of 1,000,-
600 old corks, and occupied ten years
and seven months in building.
A curious purchase has recently been
made for one of the Paris museums. II
Is confessional of old Florentine carv-
ing. Besides the marvellous work on the
panels it is surmounted by the head of
the Savior, which. on touching q spring.
disappears and gives place to q diabolical
visage. with horns and tongues of fire,
well calculated to strike a healthy terror
into the minds of penitents.
The cathedral church, built in Lubbock
in the years 117O-13i4, has curious
clock. On the end of the hour hand is
q little clock which keeps exact time with
the large one.
In Limerick cathedral, Ireland, may
be seen the following inscription on 3
handsome tablet: "NeD1enti mort Here
lieth Little Samuel Darlington, that great
Under Taker of Famous Gifts clock and
Chime Maker; he made his own Time 90
early and Later, but now he is returned
to God his Creator. The 10Th of No
vember. Then he scest, And for His
Memory this is Pleast, By His Son Ben,
1898"
A lady in Hungary has the distaf used
by Marie Antoinette, in spinning, during
her imprisonment. 1t is of wood and
ivory, inlaid with silver. and still bears
the hemp left upon it by the Inflated
Queen on the eve of her execution.
In. 1916 Lord Schworterbury gave
1885 francs for tooth of Isaac New
ton, which is now set in ring and worn
! by the eldest branch of that family.
Among the antique articles in posses
sion of Mr.. Sewell, of Maine, are a set
of pewter plates bearing the seal fixing
Richard and supposed to be more than
400 years old; also, one large silver
spoon. which represents all the money
received for building saw and grist
mill-the payment having been made in
silver and then cast into the spoon.
AT Stalyenfels-on- Rhine there is
an ancient church reduced to ruins
through lawsuit about, tithes, which
lasted forty years.
In the South Kensington museum al
London is a small watch about 100 years
old, representing an apple, the golden
case ornamented with grains of pearl.
Il There is curious clock in Japan
/ This clock, in frame three feet high
and five long, representinga noon land.
scape of great loneliness. In the fore
ground were plum aud cherry trees anC
rich plants in full bloom, in the rear
hill gradual in ascent, from which flowe
a cascade admirably initiated in crysta
From this plant thread-like stream
glided along, encircling in its winding
rocks and tiny islands, but present. \
losing itself in far-off stretch of WOO
land. In the sky turned a golden sun
indicating as it passed the striking hours
which were all marked upon the fran,
below, where a slowly creeping tortois,
served as a hand. A bird of exquisite
> plumage, resting by its wings, pro
} claimed the expiration of each. Whel
the song ceased a mouse sprang from
grotto near by, and, running over tn
hill. hastily disappeared.
Haroun al Raschid, the principal her,
of the Arabian Nights Entertain
, ments," sent to Charlemagne, in tn
, eighth century, . water clock, in tn
dial of which door opened at each hour
and when at noon the twelve door
! were thrown open, as many knights OF
horseback issued out. paraded round tn,
! dial, and then, returning, shut them
: selves in again.
/ NaucanSon, a mechanical genius
, made an automaton flute-player ant
piper in 1888, which were the wonder
of their time. The flutist was figur
, five feet high. standing on a pedestal
within which were nine pairs of bellows
: worked by clock-work. The motion o
/ the fingers, lips and tongue were a
: initiated by this figure, which by variou
arrangements of valves, tubes, lever
and wheels, is said to have produce
music little inferior to the performance
, of a skilled fiute-player. The piper wa
/ constructed much on the same principle
The bellows of his instrument required
fifty-siX pound weight to produce tn
highest note. As the fatigue of playin.
the pipes usually causes the performer
when playing rapidly to slur over som
/ of the notes, the mimic piper, impervi
r Gus alike to WEAKNESS and shortness O
breath is accredited with having ex
celled living one in the cleanness O
the notes.
{ Millardet, Swiss mechanician, ex
, hibited in London in the last century
r female figure that played eighteen tune
J on the piano with all the motions @
natural life, the eyes following tn
{ movements of the fingers on the keys
> the pressure of which produced til
: notes.-Tr0Y IN. Y. Times.